Xilinx at Mobile World Congress 2008
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What: Mobile World Congress 2008
Where: Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Hall 1, Stand E47
When: February 11-14, 2008
Exhibits: Monday - Wednesday, 9a.m.-7p.m. Thursday, 9a.m.-5p.m.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb. 5 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced its participation at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain from February 11 through 14. The company will unveil its latest portfolio of flexible hardware solutions for mobile phone base stations, supporting all major air interfaces, including 3GPP-LTE. In addition, it will highlight a new digital pre-distortion (DPD) capability that enables infrastructure vendors to achieve significant power reductions from the latest generation of power amplifiers.
Xilinx Booth Demonstrations (Hall 1 - Stand E47)
In the following demonstrations, Xilinx will show how the integration of multiple functions on a single flexible silicon device results in direct and indirect cost reductions for network infrastructure vendors and operators.
o Multi-mode Radio Card - This demonstration supports UMTS, 3GPP-LTE,
TD-SCDMA and WiMAX, using the DSP resources of the FPGA to cost
effectively implement the signal processing requirements of digital up
conversion (DUC), digital down conversion (DDC), crest factor reduction
(CFR) and digital pre-distortion (DPD). To minimise FPGA utilisation
and therefore reduce capital expenditure (CAPEX), the DPD processing is
partitioned between the DSP resources of the FPGA and a MicroBlaze(TM)
soft processor. This is then used to linearise the latest LDMOS RF
power device from Freescale Semiconductor, achieving power outputs in
excess of 40 watts whilst maintaining spectral mask. Xilinx has tested
the DPD design with a number of power amplifiers and has observed
output efficiencies of up to 35 percent.
o Baseband - This baseband demonstration comprises a complete,
high-throughput, 3GPP-LTE-compliant physical downlink shared channel
(PDSCH), utilizing IP components, including an LTE turbo decoder,
FFT/iFFT blocks with cyclic prefix insertion, rate matching and QAM
mapper/demapper functions. Implemented using the latest VirtexTM-5 FPGA
technology, the transmit and receive functions are connected by
Ethernet to a host PC that sources and displays different video streams.
A dual video stream arrangement is then used to demonstrate the
capabilities of the >100Mbps net throughput performance of the 3GPP-LTE
PHY, over a 10MHz frequency band.
About Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs
The Virtex-5 family represents the fifth generation in the award-winning Virtex series. Built upon the industry's most advanced 65nm triple-oxide technology, breakthrough new ExpressFabric(TM) technology and proven ASMBL(TM) architecture, the Virtex-5 family includes four domain-optimized platforms for high-speed logic, digital signal processing (DSP), embedded processing and serial connectivity applications. Production devices are shipping now and may be purchased online or through Xilinx distributors. Visit xilinx.com/virtex5 for more information.
About Mobile World Congress
The Mobile World Congress features the very latest in technology, services, and developments, bringing to life the promise of mobile broadband for all and defining the industry's path to continued growth. The congress brings together the eminent leaders and personalities from mobile operators and equipment vendors, as well as those from the Internet and the world of entertainment.
The Mobile World Congress provides a one-stop-shop for everyone looking to understand what will drive the success of the mobile industry over the next year. For more information, visit http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/.
Source: Xilinx, Inc.
CONTACT: Christelle Moraga, Public Relations Europe, +44 1932 836 6526, cmoraga@xilinx.com,
or Silvia Gianelli, Public Relations, +1-408-626-4328, silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com, both of Xilinx, Inc.
Web site: http://www.xilinx.com/
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
