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Xilinx has combined software defined radio and third party IP in an FPGA-based programmable platform for Long Term Evolution (LTE) baseband and radio subsystems for basestations.
This is an example of the company’s plan to offer application specific reference designs as part of moves to broaden its business outside of pure-play FPGAs.
Each platform consists of FPGAs integrated with both in-house and third-party IP along with the necessary development environments.
Xilinx is also collaborating with Agilent Technologies to validate compliance of hardware and software modules using industry standard test equipment.
The LTE basestation (eNodeB) design supports both frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) variants of LTE.
Along with baseband processing, software defined radio running on a multi-mode digital front end radio, there is support for layer-2, transport and associated security functions from Wintegra.
The platform includes pre-validated IP cores, such as LTE Turbo Encoder and Decoder. The cores are generated to user-specified parameters with the Xilinx CORE Generator software tool.
Based on current generations of Virtex and Spartan FPGAs, the company said support for next generation Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs will be added this year.