Xilinx and Wintegra Partner on LTE Baseband Targeted Design Platform
XLNX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- At the Mobile World Congress, Xilinx, Inc., a supplier of programmable logic solutions, and Wintegra, Inc., a provider of access packet processors and software, announced joint development of a 3GPP-LTE baseband targeted design platform (TDP) that they said reduces the "bill of materials" (BOM) cost and power consumption of baseband processing as compared to conventional design approaches.
Based on currently available components from both companies, the companies noted, the platform incorporates a high degree of flexibility and scalability, while accelerating the development of Long Term Evolution (LTE) products.
According to a release, the platform combines the Xilinx Virtex-5 or Virtex-6 family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with Wintegra's WinPath-2 or WinPath-3 family of access packet processors and software to provide a complete digital baseband and transport solution for 4G radio standards, including both time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) modes of LTE. It delivers flexibility for both channel cards and network interface transport cards to address the full range of basestation (eNodeB) implementations from enterprise femtocells to multi-sector macro basestation form factors. The crucial aspect of standards compliance is addressed in collaboration with Agilent, a vendor of equipment for 3GPP-LTE signal generation and test validation.
"Wintegra is excited to be working with Xilinx on this important LTE program," said Michael Phillip, senior vice president and general manager of Wireless Systems at Wintegra."We share the common goal of reducing time to market for wireless infrastructure developers by providing open solutions that provide significant differentiation opportunities for our customers. This platform draws upon the respective strengths of each company to deliver tremendous value in terms of integration, scalability, and flexibility for LTE product development."
"Collaboration with Wintegra is integral to our roadmap for delivering an end-to-end LTE basestation design encompassing radio, baseband, MAC, and transport functions. Wintegra's development team has been particularly helpful and allowed us to implement a very efficient coupling between the MAC and PHY layers, which is critical to meeting the latency requirements of LTE applications," said Dean Westman, vice president of Communications Solutions Marketing at Xilinx.
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