SC-RF4-5Gn78 is a standalone small cell for indoor use complete with baseband and RF hardware based on NXP’s Layerscape and Layerscape Access SoCs that combine 16 Arm Cortex-A72 cores with NXP’s VSPA DSP cores, security and wireless accelerators.
Each channel offers up to 100MHz bandwidth, enabling 4 x 4 MIMO downlink operation and delivering gigabit throughput, according to the company.
CommAgility’s SmallCellPHY-5G and SmallCellSTACK-5G software can be pre-integrated, and there is an option to include closed-loop digital pre-distortion support to optimise the RF.
The design can be licensed for customer modification to specific needs, or CommAgility can make such modifications, and can adapt the platform for customer-selected 3GPP Release 16 and 17 features.
SC-RF2-5Gn78 is a two-channel version, and pre-integrated designs are called ‘5G Reference gNodeB’.
CommAgility’s comprehensive software portfolio for 5G New Radio (NR) development includes pre-ported and validated physical layer (PHY) and Stack software, a 5G core, and PHY reference chains. This simplifies the development of 5G small cells and private networks, with the software’s flexible architecture making integration easier with hardware accelerators and libraries. Versions are available for both 5G gNodeB and UE product developers. As well as the SC-RF4-5Gn78, CommAgility also offers the
