CommPy

CommPy is an open source package implementing digital communications algorithms in Python using NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib.

Available Features

Channel Coding

  • Encoder for Convolutional Codes (Polynomial, Recursive Systematic). Supports all rates and puncture matrices.
  • Viterbi Decoder for Convolutional Codes (Hard Decision Output).
  • MAP Decoder for Convolutional Codes (Based on the BCJR algorithm).
  • Encoder for a rate-1/3 systematic parallel concatenated Turbo Code.
  • Turbo Decoder for a rate-1/3 systematic parallel concatenated turbo code (Based on the MAP decoder/BCJR algorithm).
  • Binary Galois Field GF(2^m) with minimal polynomials and cyclotomic cosets.
  • Create all possible generator polynomials for a (n,k) cyclic code.
  • Random Interleavers and De-interleavers.

Channel Models

  • SISO Channel with Rayleigh or Rician fading.
  • MIMO Channel with Rayleigh or Rician fading.
  • Binary Erasure Channel (BEC)
  • Binary Symmetric Channel (BSC)
  • Binary AWGN Channel (BAWGNC)

Filters

  • Rectangular
  • Raised Cosine (RC), Root Raised Cosine (RRC)
  • Gaussian

Impairments

  • Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO)

Modulation/Demodulation

  • Phase Shift Keying (PSK)
  • Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)
  • OFDM Tx/Rx signal processing

Sequences

  • PN Sequence
  • Zadoff-Chu (ZC) Sequence

Utilities

  • Decimal to bit-array, bit-array to decimal.
  • Hamming distance, Euclidean distance.
  • Upsample
  • Power of a discrete-time signal