Research Article

A New High-Performance Digital FM Modulator and Demodulator for Software-Defined Radio and Its FPGA Implementation

Table 6

FPGA resource usage comparison result with other FM demodulators.

Architecture using Xilinx Spartan3 3S200FT256-4TimeArea
Delay (ns)Frequency (MHz)SlicesSlices FFLUT

PLL (optimized) [7]9.725102.828491548721
Sigma Delta Arch. [11]2427 out of 3071 slices in Xilinx Virtex2 XC2V500 device

Proposed implementation12.94877.3237244437
234 out of 3072 slices in Xilinx Virtex2 XC2V500 device