Arkastone Documentation

Welcome to the Arkastone project — a modular, extensible framework for simulating and prototyping end-to-end digital communication systems. Built in Python, Arkastone is designed for research, experimentation, and production-quality simulation of modern PHY-layer chains.

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🚀 What is Arkastone?

Arkastone provides:

• A modular transmitter and receiver framework

• Support for key components like modulation, OFDM, polar codes, channel simulation, and more

• A config-driven simulation engine with test support

• Future-ready architecture for SIMD optimization and hardware acceleration

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📂 Contents

Documentation

• Getting Started
  • 📦 Installation
  • 🧪 Run a Simulation
  • Example Simulation Output (Terminal)
• Architecture
• Encoder Module Architecture
  • 🧱 Overview
  • 🧩 1. BaseEncoder (Abstract Interface)
  • 🧩 2. Encoder (Factory Wrapper)
  • 🧩 3. Dedicated Encoder Implementations
  • ✅ Usage Example
  • ✨ Design Highlights
• OFDM Module
• Decoder Module
• Simulation Configuration
• Test Framework
• Contributing

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🧠 Who Should Use Arkastone?

• Researchers: Rapidly test new PHY-layer techniques

• Developers: Build and validate SDR/ASIC blocks

• Educators: Teach communications with visual, Python-based examples

• Contributors: Extend support to new standards (e.g., NB-IoT, 5G NR)

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome PRs, issues, and feature requests!

1. Fork the repo

2. Run tests locally

3. Follow our contribution guidelines

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.