We have implemented the digital section of a wireless
local area network (WLAN) demodulator in a
reconfigurable interface card called the PCI Pamette.
The entire baseband section of the demodulator has been
implemented in the Pamette and a simple analog to
digital mezzanine board. This is the second
implementation of the demodulator, the first being a
card-based design using a mixture of discrete and
reconfigurable logic. The Pamette implementation took
far less time to complete than the card-based design.
Moreover, the reconfigurable substrate is much more
versatile. This paper describes the Pamette
implementation and discusses our experiences with the