FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF (15,7) BCH ENCODER AND DECODER FOR TEXT MESSAGE

Rohith S, Pavithra S

Abstract: In a communication channel, noise and interferences are the two main sources of errors occur during the transmission of the message. Thus, to get the error free communication error control codes are used. This paper discusses, FPGA implementation of (15, 7) BCH Encoder and Decoder for text message using Verilog Hardware Description Language. Initially each character in a text message is converted into binary data of 7 bits. These 7 bits are encoded into 15 bit codeword using (15, 7) BCH encoder. If any 2 bit error in any position of 15 bit codeword, is detected and corrected. This corrected data is converted back into an ASCII character. The decoder is implemented using the Peterson algorithm and Chine’s search algorithm. Simulation was carried out by using Xilinx 12.1 ISE simulator, and verified results for an arbitrarily chosen message data. Synthesis was successfully done by using the RTL compiler, power and area is estimated for 180nm Technology. Finally both encoder and decoder design is implemented on Spartan 3E FPGA

Keywords: BCH Encoder, BCH Decoder, FPGA, Verilog, Cadence RTL compiler

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0209031