Cognovo has increased the specification of its software defined modem processor IP to meet the requirements of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and other algorithmically intensive applications, such as infrastructure.
Cambridge-based Cognovo has developed a number of software defined modems for wireless and broadcast standards such as HSPA+, LTE, LTE-A, WiFi, WiGig, DVB, DMB.
The latest is the MCE160 licensable core which is built around Cognovo’s Vector Signal Processor (VSP) technology.
This is processor IP which came out of ARM in 2009. It is capable of delivering in excess of 250 giga operations per second of processing power.
LTE-Advanced is the next generation broadband mobile communications system standardised within 3GPP and included within Release 10 in 2011.
LTE-A provides peak downlink data rates up to 1Gbit/s and widens the LTE specification through the aggregation of channels up to 100MHz bandwidth, extended MIMO layers on both uplink and downlink plus the addition of co-ordinated multi-point.
This significant extension to the LTE specification means that a flexible and high-level system design approach, such as that enabled by the MCE160 core, is essential to achieve early and reliable deployment.
“The separation of hardware and software enabled by Cognovo’s soft modem technology provides a revolutionary environment for the realisation of the latest generation of wireless modems such as LTE and LTE-Advanced,” said Pascal Herczog, Cognovo’s CTO.
“With the availability of MCE160, our customers can now move beyond LTE to create flexible basebands with the power to run LTE-Advanced modems purely in software,” said Herczog.