Research Article

FPGA-Based Implementation of All-Digital QPSK Carrier Recovery Loop Combining Costas Loop and Maximum Likelihood Frequency Estimator

Table 3

The hardware cost of the different modules for our QPSK ADCRL.

ModuleNumber of slice registersNumber of slice LUTsNumber used as logic

QPSK ADCOL174 out of 28800580 out of 28800612 out of 28800

MLFOEFD875 out of 28800892 out of 28800790 out of 28800
MLFE603 out of 28800516 out of 28800592 out of 28800

Total hardware cost1652 out of 288001988 out of 288001994 out of 28800