Ceva, ARM team for 5G satellite chips
Ceva has signed a strategic collaboration with ARM and SynaXG for 5G satellite chips.
The deal, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, combines the Ceva Penta-5G with the ARM Neoverse N2 mid-range core for 5G New Radio (NR) processing in wireless network equipment and satellites. These will run the SynaXG carrier-grade RAN software.
For baseband processing, it delivers 10X better efficiency than traditional solutions and 20X more efficient than FPGA-based alternatives that are used today. This would enable LEO satellites and terrestrial 5G-Advanced infrastructure components that are more compact, lighter and require less power to operate.
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“ARM Neoverse was designed to help ARM Total Design partners like Ceva build innovative new solutions that deliver transformative levels of workload-specific performance and efficiency. This collaboration with Ceva and SynaXG sets a new benchmark for energy-efficient processing with the potential to make a significant impact on wireless infrastructure and 5G-advanced solutions,” said Panch Chandrasekaran, Director of Segment Marketing, Infrastructure Line of Business at ARM.
Mantosh Malhotra, Chief Business Officer, SynaXG, added: “By integrating our comprehensive 5G NR software suite, which includes our carrier-grade 5G PHY and stack solutions, with the high-performance, power-efficiency capabilities of Arm Neoverse and Ceva’s innovative platforms, we’re delivering a transformative solution that sets a new standard for efficiency and sustainability in 5G-Advanced infrastructure. This strategic partnership underscores our commitment to driving the evolution of 5G and empowering the development of environmentally friendly, next-generation wireless networks.”
Ceva contributes its PentaG-RAN baseband processing platform, which includes Ceva vector and scalar DSP cores, optimized fixed-function hardware accelerators, and proven, optimized software modules. ARM provides the Neoverse N2 core, its first ARMv9 infrastructure CPU, which delivers industry-leading performance-per-watt efficiency. SynaXG’s software stack runs on top of the hardware to deliver a full 5G baseband design.
The Ceva PentaG-RAN platform is RF front-end agnostic, ensuring it can be used for the development of 5G-Advanced systems targeting mmWave and sub-6-GHz networks.
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