Radio
The growing number of standards, form factors, interfaces and waveforms— along with the demand for spectrum ownership— are driving the need for greater flexibility in radio. At the same time, manufacturers must drive down operating costs and mind their carbon footprint.
The Xilinx Multi-mode Radio Targeted Design Platform provides a cost-effective, low power, scalable design platform tuned to the needs of today’s intensive radio systems, addressing: LTE, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, W-CDMA, CDMA2000, and MC-GSM applications. Backed with an extensive library of IP and reference designs
supporting a variety of air interfaces and standards-based connectivity, the platform allows equipment manufacturers to:
- Design low-cost multi-mode/multi-waveform radios
- Lower power and increase thermal efficiency
- Develop with high levels of integration and high reliability
Example 2x2 LTE-DFE Reference Design with Digital Pre-Distortion LogiCORE™ IP
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A single Kintex-7 K70T device can be used to implement all the required processing for a 2x2 LTE radio, using Xilinx IP for CPRI/OBSAI, DUC/DDC, CFR and DPD. The utilization shown is for 20MHz carrier configuration. Package options allow seamless scalability to support larger antenna/carrier configurations with no PCB change.
Cost-savings with Single FPGA Implementation
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A single Xilinx FPGA can implement all the digital radio processing required, providing lower cost, a smaller PCB footprint, higher reliability and lower power over multiple ASSPs.
Multi-mode Radio Targeted Design Platform
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Leveraging modularity and scalability, Xilinx has jointly-developed a Targeted Design Platform with Analog Devices Inc., aimed at allowing customers to evaluate Xilinx LogiCORE IP or developing their own.
Comprehensive LTE eNodeB Reference Design
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The LTE Baseband Targeted Design Platform in conjunction with the Multi-mode Radio Targeted Design Platform creates an end-to-end LTE basestation design encompassing radio, baseband, media access control (MAC), and transport functions.