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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: OBSAI RP3-01 development kits
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 August 2006
Kits create OBSAI-compliant basestations
Development kits help design applications in compliance with the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative Reference Point 3-01 specification for remote RF heads.
Altera and Elektrobit Group have announced the availability of the industry's first development kits for designing applications in compliance with the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) Reference Point 3-01 (RP3-01) specification for remote RF heads The kits include a Stratix II GX FPGA development board and Nios II embedded processor core from Altera, Elektrobit's advanced RP3-01 IP cores, as well as all the necessary design software for emulating system configuration and control behaviour
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Altera and Elektrobit joined forces to provide a clear time to market advantage for OEMs designing remote radio heads for WiMAX, 3GPP and 3GPP2 systems", said Arun Iyengar, Senior Director of Altera's Communications Business Unit.
"Established wireless infrastructure and radio module developers as well as new market entrants can now apply the latest OBSAI specification to their products".
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Shrink to 40nm increases FPGA capabilities
The Stratix IV family has up to 680K logic elements, 2x bigger than Altera's Stratix III family, which currently comprise currently the largest FPGAs on the market.
FPGAs support serial gigabit interface
Stratix III FPGAs are the industry's first programmable logic devices able to support Gigabit Ethernet SGMII on LVDS pins.
The Stratix II GX devices included with each kit fuse the industry's fastest and highest-density FPGA architecture with up to 20 full-duplex, high-performance, low-power, multigigabit transceivers.
The Nios II family of embedded processors currently consists of three processor cores that implement a common instruction set architecture, each optimised for a specific price/performance point, and all supported by the same software tool chain.
The RP3-01 specification describes data and control requirements between the basestation (BTS) baseband and remote radio heads.
It also includes all the operational, administrative, maintenance and performance (OAM and P) related design elements.
Elektrobit is a partner in Altera's ecosystem serving systems OEMs in the wireless industry.
Committed to providing maximum value, Altera and its partners offer reference designs and IP for digital radio such as crest factor reduction, digital predistortion, digital down conversion and digital up conversion.
Altera also offers baseband solutions for WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and WiMAX.
Two OBSAI RP3-01 development kits will be available in Q3 2006.
The RNS RP301 EVA BB1 baseband kit provides USB data through the RP3-01 protocol using optical fibre and costs Eur 15,000.
The RNS RP301 EVA RF1 RF kit allows clock recovery measurements and costs Eur 20,000.
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