LATTICE ENHANCES ITS WIRELESS BASE STATION SOLUTIONS PORTFOLIO

LATTICE ENHANCES ITS WIRELESS BASE STATION SOLUTIONS PORTFOLIO

Lattice announced the availability of three new Intellectual Property (IP) core and reference design products targeting the wireless communications market.

–Low-cost LatticeECP2M FPGA Family Provides Updated Support for Key Wireless Functionality, Including DDC/DUC, CPRI and OBSAI–

The products include RF/IF processing functionality, as well as upgraded support for industry-standard base station connectivity protocols. The designs are optimized to run on the LatticeECP2M FPGA family in order to provide complete, low cost wireless base station solutions.

“With the advent of Remote Radio Head (RRH) base station topologies and the continuing demand on designers to meet shrinking time-to-market and cost targets, it has become more important than ever for silicon vendors to offer customers complete connectivity and processing solutions,” said Stan Kopec, Lattice corporate vice president of marketing. “The LatticeECP2M value proposition of a low-cost FPGA fabric combined with embedded high-speed SERDES channels continues to gain traction in the wireless market. With the release of these most recent IP cores and reference designs, Lattice further enhances the value of our LatticeECP2M FPGAs by delivering complete wireless solutions.”

The three designs being released include a Digital Up/Down conversion reference design (DDC/DUC) and IP cores supporting two popular industry standard baseband interface protocols, the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI-RP3-01) and the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI). The DDC/DUC is a single channel, WiMAX reference design that leverages the embedded DSP blocks of the LatticeECP2M fabric to provide a highly integrated RF card solution. The DUC/DDC package also automatically configures the Lattice ispLeverCORE IP cores for the Finite Input Response (FIR) filter and Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) functions.