Hardware implementation of the quasi‐maximum likelihood estimator core for polynomial phase signals

Flexible, multiple-clock-cycle, hardware design for the quasi-maximum likelihood (QML) algorithm core realisation for the polynomial phase signals (PPSs) estimation is proposed. The QML algorithm significantly outperforms existing PPS estimators in terms of accuracy. However, its practical applications require efficient software and hardware systems. The main challenges in the proposed hardware development with respect to existing systems for...