Wide bandwidth digital front end processors for 3G and 4G/LTE base stations
Further, the innovative OP6100 DFE processor family supports multiple standards and multiple signals in the same wide bandwidth as well as full support over non-contiguous bands, and features NetLogic Microsystems’ Intelligent Self-Adaptive DFE™ technology.
The exponential growth in mobile data traffic in the next decade, coupled with global spectrum scarcity, are forcing service providers and operators worldwide to push the limits on capacity and throughput for their limited spectrum. This is in turn driving a need for next-generation base stations that can support dramatically wider bandwidth, significantly more signal channels and more protocols (2G/3G/4G) in each band.
With the widest signal bandwidth, the OP6100 DFE processor family claims the industry’s highest spectrum efficiency through the simultaneous processing of multiple signal channels per band, as well as the multi-protocol co-existence of 4G LTE, 3G and 2G standards. This unique ability to support multiple signals and multiple protocols in a significantly wider bandwidth spectrum, coupled with the unique ability to span over non-contiguous bands, is enabling service providers to upgrade the performance and functionality of existing base stations without the time and costs associated with deploying new base stations or antennas. Moreover, the OP6100 DFE processor family greatly improves the cost and power profiles of next-generation base stations by eliminating the need for costly and very power-hungry FPGA devices and conventional DFE solutions that are traditionally used to implement DFE functionality.
NetLogic Microsystems’ Intelligent Self-Adaptive DFE technology that is integrated in the OP6100 DFE processor family enables the base station to calibrate in real-time to real-world environments and variations, thereby accelerating and enhancing the manageability of LTE developments for Tier One original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In addition, this technology makes the DFE processor family agnostic to power amplifier architectures and technologies, and supports the broadest range of Doherty, Asymmetric Doherty and Envelope-Tracking power amplifiers in LDMOS, GaN and GaAs technologies. This enables unprecedented scalability in DFE processing for OEMs across multiple platforms and base station form factors. Moreover, the best-in-class OP6100 DFE processor family delivers up to 80% better transmit power efficiency over competing solutions, which enables OEMs to achieve higher data rates at much lower transmit power levels.
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