Israel based fables semiconductor vendor DesignArt Networks
has unveiled DAN3800, a Baseband SoC for 4G equipment targeting
next generation distributed macro base station equipment.
"At the heart of the DAN3800 is the most scalable
4G baseband pipeline, consisting of optimized multi-core
DSP and RISC processing layers, augmented with a very high
capacity multi-core HW acceleration layer, all dimensioned
to achieve true multi-gigabit ITU Advanced performance,"
said Assaf Touboul, DesignArt Networks CTO. "Consuming
only 8 Watts, the DAN3800 delivers multiples in performance
of currently available silicon solutions - powering an entire
4-sector LTE Advanced Macro BTS for the delivery of up to
1.2 Gbps of raw 4G data capacity - all with just one single
DAN3800 Baseband SoC".
LTE Advanced, or LTE R10, standardization foresees the
use of advanced features and signal processing capabilities,
such as successive interference cancellation (SIC), beam
forming (BF), multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO), LTE relay, and
multi-carrier spectrum aggregation, to create the necessary
multi-gigabit capacity for 4G data services. Simultaneously,
the DAN3800 SoC supports all of these processing intensive
technologies, while operating a 4-sector LTE R10 baseband
across up to 80 MHz of aggregated spectrum capacity, driving
up to 16 transmit and 16 receive paths - far beyond the
scalability and performance of existing silicon solutions,
says DesignArt.
The DAN3800 Baseband SoC uses the fully software-defined
radio (SDR) sub-system of the DAN3000 SoC platform. All
PHY algorithms are implemented in software, running on a
combination of multi-core DSP and multi-core RISC processing
layers. DesignArt says both, DSP and RISC cores have been
designed with a unique architecture, specifically tailored
for the design of high-performance, yet fully flexible SDR
systems. The DAN3800 offers maximum flexibility and a future-proof
software evolution path, within the power budget of a dedicated
silicon solution, claims DesignArt.
"The most notable achievement of DesignArt Networks'
DAN3800 SoC platform is not just raw capacity or high scalability,
but the fact that it can reach these extreme performance
limits within a power consumption budget of just 8W, a fraction
of typical design architectures," said Will Strauss,
President of Forward Concepts. "This allows system
vendors to design highly integrated ultra-compact 4G BU
equipment at lower cost, without compromising performance,
RF scalability, or SW upgradability."
