Design of an Automotive Visible Light Communications Link using an Off-The-Shelf LED Headlight
Konferenz: ANALOG 2018 - 16. GMM/ITG-Fachtagung
13.09.2018 - 14.09.2018 in München/Neubiberg, Deutschland
Tagungsband: ANALOG 2018
Seiten: 5Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Kruse, Stephan; Kress, Christian; Scheytt, Christoph (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and System and Circuit Technology, Paderborn University, Germany)
Memedi, Agon; Amjad, Muhammad Sohaib; Dressler, Falko (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, Paderborn University, Germany)
Tebruegge, Claas (Heinz Nixdorf Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, Paderborn University, Germany & Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt, Germany)
Inhalt:
We present a transmitter circuit to drive a commercial Light Emitting Diode (LED)-based headlight for automotive Visible Light Communication (VLC). Based on the design of the presented transmitter (TX), we provide a design methodology for VLC TXs and make it available as Open Hardware. Furthermore, a complete wireless VLC link is built using the GNU Radio signal processing tool chain and demonstrated on an Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP). The Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the system is below 5% for a wide input voltage range and the 1 dB compression point (P1dB) is at 1.02V, which makes the circuit attractive for more advanced modulation formates like Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) or Pulse-Amplitude Modulation (PAM).