Key Benefits

Enabling design, development, and implementation of 5G handset, radiohead, fronthaul/backhaul, and baseband and edge computing technologies with proven IP and design tools.

Analyze thermal, electromagnetic, and circuit behaviors.

Manage long SoC development schedules and minimize the risk of re-spins.

Extend the battery life with low-power design techniques.

Design and verify complex designs with high-speed interfaces and demanding security requirements.

Prominent 5G Services

5G Handset
5G RF module designs for handsets can exploit the very large bandwidth offered by millimeter wave (mmWave), but also must meet significant challenges in linearity, power, and heat necessary to be successful in the handset market. You face intense pressure on form factor with tight integration of RFICs, baseband, power management, discretes, and multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays with advanced packaging.
5G Radiohead
5G combines existing spectrum and new millimeter wave (mmWave), and it’s this higher frequency mmWave that provides both benefits and design challenges for 5G. At these frequencies, patch antenna size is much reduced for radioheads -- to the size of a fingernail. Conversely, signal attenuation is high, so antennas are placed in 2D arrays.
5G Baseband and Edge Computing
In a centralized or cloud radio access network (C-RAN), baseband cabinets move from the bottom of mobile operator masts to edge-computing facilities in the fronthaul, where centralized baseband can be dynamically shared between radioheads. Massive co-located artificial intelligence (AI) is used to optimize the baseband performance over widely varying radiohead installations and traffic, and provide the AI heavy lifting for robots, drones, and other user equipment.
5G fronthaul and Backhaul
Radiohead and baseband will no longer be found at the top and bottom of mobile operators’ masts for 5G, but relocated even deeper into the fabric of cities and buildings and into edge computing data centers, respectively. This significant increase in their physical separation, combined with the ultra-low latency targets for 5G, means the connection of the two (fronthaul) needs a fresh approach.