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+## Copyright (C) 2007 Sylvain Pelissier <sylvain.pelissier@gmail.com>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} qammod (@var{x},@var{m})
+## Create the QAM modulation of x with a size of alphabet m.
+## @seealso{qamdemod,pskmod,pskdemod}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function y = qammod(x,m)
+ if(nargin < 2)
+ usage('y = qammod(x,m)');
+ exit;
+ end
+ if(any(x >= m))
+ error('values of x must be in range [0,M-1]');
+ exit;
+ end
+
+ if(~any(x == fix(x)))
+ error('values of x must be integer');
+ exit;
+ end
+ c = sqrt(m);
+ if(c ~= fix(c) || log2(c) ~= fix(log2(c)))
+ error('m must be a square of a power of 2');
+ exit;
+ end
+ b = -2.*mod(x,(c))+c-1;
+ a = 2.*floor(x./(c))-c+1;
+ y = a + i.*b;