LTE physical layer saves time and money for wireless OEMs
The PHY software is supplied in binary format integrated with the card, and no up-front licence fee is charged, only a run-time license. This typically saves hundreds of thousands of dollars for OEMs developing LTE applications, making new projects more affordable. By being already integrated and tested, the solution saves substantial engineering effort, further reducing development costs and enabling OEMs to deliver projects more quickly.
MIMOon’s mi!SmallCellPHY software provides a complete LTE physical layer for pico-, femto, and micro-cells on SDR, DSP and ASIC platforms. The software is fully compliant with 3GPP Releases 8 and 9, and provides a flexible, scalable solution that is optimised for low memory, processing power and power consumption.
CommAgility’s AMC-D24A4-RF4 is a double-width AMC module based around Texas Instruments’ (TI’s) TMS320TCI6636 SoC, which contains 8 TMS320C66x DSP cores, 4 ARM® Cortex®-A15 cores and wireless accelerators. For additional processing, the AMC-D24A4-RF4 also provides two TI TMS320C6678 multicore DSPs and a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. The module includes a highly flexible 4×4 RF interface. For applications requiring external remote radio heads, multiple CPRI interfaces are available, and the card is available without integrated RF as the AMC-D24A4.
The module is aimed at 4G LTE, LTE Advanced and 5G systems that require MIMO technologies, and enables complete RF to Layer 3 wireless basestation functionality to be implemented on a single card. The performance and flexibility is ideal for use in test equipment, research and development, or a specialized application such as wireless surveillance.
The CommAgility hardware and MIMOon software now provide one of the key building blocks for an eNodeB solution, ready for integration with higher layer stacks and other components. Renuka Bhalerao. It will be available in mid 2014.
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