Project Title:
Highly Integrated LTE small Cell Baseband Core Based on Mainstream SoC Device
Project Reference:
ART/152CP
Project Period:
20130313 - 20140912
Funds Approved (HK$’000):
15104
Project Coordinator:
Dr Eric Kong-Chau Tsang
Deputy Project Coordinator:
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Deliverable:
LTE-R9 Small Cell Baseband Core Technology ‒ TDD and FDD, 5MHz, 10MHz and 20MHz ‒ Larger cell radius (~10km) ‒ Higher mobility (~100km/h) ‒ More advanced MIMO (2x2, 2x4, and 4x4) ‒ Dual layer beam-forming ‒ Number of users (~100) LTE-R9 Small Cell Layer1 Reference Design ‒ Physical layer simulation platform ‒ Commercial grade LTE-R9 Small Cell Layer1 reference design on a highly integrated mainstream SoC device (<=40nm) ‒ Complete test infrastructure to verify and validate 3GPP Layer 1 requirements Note: FDD: Frequency Division Duplex TDD: Time Division Duplex MIMO: Multiple Input Multiple Output
Research Group:
Dr Che-I, Justin Chuang
Mr Jui Kuang, Ray Ho
Dr Man Wai, Victor Kwan
Mr Lei Xu
Mr Ching Hong, Chris Leung
Dr Hong Lei Zhang
Dr Ho Yin, Herbert Chan
Dr Eddy Chiu
Dr Yin, Kevin Yang
Miss Xiaoting Wu
Dr Feng, Samuel Liu
Mr Yan Lam, Raymond Lee
Mr Yat Fai Leung
Mr Kin Wai Tam
Mr Wui Kin, Ken Lam
Mr Bin Gong
Mr Mingjie Peng
Dr Jihui, Elaine Zhang
Mr Xue Feng Guo
Dr Wei Han
Ms Mei Fan, Rebecca Choi
Dr Xinyi Liu
Mr Koon Man, Angus Sam
Ms Angel CHEUNG
Mr Huayu Zhou
Dr Heung Wing Jack Hung
Dr Sujie Chen
Dr Xiang Chen
Mr Jiewei, Jerry Ding
Miss Yeuk Lan, Iris Hui
Dr Chunhua Sun
Dr Wang Kit, Wilson Thong
Dr Yufei Wang
Mr Wei Xiong
Dr Yuxian, Gabby Zhang
Mr Chiing Chyuan, Calvin Lee
Mr Chi Chuen Yuen
Mr Jason Corley
Mr Benjamin K Hui
Sponsor:
Freescale Semiconductor Hong Kong Limited (Licensing) [Sponsor]
Innofidei (Hong Kong) Technology Limited 1 [Sponsor]
Innofidei (Hong Kong) Technology Limited 2 [Sponsor]
Innofidei (Hong Kong) Technology Limited 3 [Sponsor]
Description:
In this full project, LTE Small Cell baseband core technologies will be developed and integrated with a commercially available, mainstream, and highly integrated SoC device. LTE Small Cell is a set of base-stations including Femtocell, Picocell, Metrocell and Microcell deploying in a diverse environment. The future heterogeneous network will contain these Small Cells to enable flexible, high capacity and low cost deployment. Compared with the LTE Femtocell, the LTE Small Cell baseband core supports additional new features such as higher mobility, larger cell size and more advanced MIMO, which will be explored in this project. The deliverables of this project include an LTE Small Cell physical layer simulation platform for algorithm development and verification, an LTE Small Cell physical layer reference design implemented on a highly integrated mainstream SoC device, and a complete test infrastructure to verify and validate the reference design against the 3GPP standard requirements. ASTRI has become a global leading solution provider of LTE Rel-8/Rel-9 Femtocell core technologies. This project extends our leadership from LTE Femtocell to LTE Small Cell which has much larger market. This also creates a competitive edge for local/regional design houses, silicon suppliers and equipment manufacturers and helps them to have an excellent position in LTE market. Therefore, many companies have shown their strong interests in transferring technologies to be developed from this project: Innofidei (Hong Kong) Technology and Freescale Semiconductor Hong Kong have already decided to contribute to this project. Many other companies such as Sunnada, Mindspeed, Rohde & Schwar, 21 Vianet, FiberHome, Centron are also aggressively discussing with ASTRI regarding transfer and/or leverage the technologies developed from this project.
