First Demonstration of FPGA-based Hitless Flexible Receiver with Blind Modulation Format Identification

We present a FPGA-based flexible receiver with real-time DSP that adapts to the modulation format of the incoming signal automatically. Hitless switching between 1.024-μs long QPSK and 16-QAM frames has been experimentally demonstrated.

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