This document discusses the technology of designing basestation channel cards, and how Altera's 28-nm FPGA and ASIC technology, along with software tools, development boards, IP, and reference designs, enable future-proof and differentiated designs.
Altera's broad portfolio of 28-nm FPGAs and ASICs, combined with productivity-enhancing software tools and reference designs, supports the development of scalable and differentiated basestation channel cards. The technologies address emerging 4G wireless standards like LTE-Advanced and disruptive network architectures such as baseband pooling for C-RAN and small cells.
The technology addresses emerging 4G wireless standards such as LTE-Advanced.
Stratix V GS and GX FPGAs are used for switching/bridging in macro basestation.
The suite offers commodity interfaces such as CPRI, OBSAI, SRIO, PCIe, and GigE.