Alamouti Code with MATLAB Simulation and FPGA Implementation

In this paper,a kind of typical space-time block code named Alamouti code is introduced.After analysised the theoretical bit errror rate(BER)of Alamouti code,a simulation with MATLAB is generated.The simulation result shows that the code can provide ideal diversity gains.The encoding process based on FPGA is designed by Verilog HDL,the whole process is compiled by ALTERA's integrated development environment QUARTUSⅡ and simulated with third-party tools MODELSIM.The practical measurements show that both speed and resourse utilization of the encoder meets the design requirements.