Renesas Electronics Corporation, a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced plans to introduce a complete RF front-end solution for 5G Active Antenna Systems (AAS) radios in collaboration with AMD .
Paired with the field-proven AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Digital Front End OpenRAN Radio (O-RU) reference design, the RF front end includes RF switches, low-noise amplifiers, and pre-drivers. It offers a complete solution to meet the demand of the growing mobile network infrastructure market.
The reference platform will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 27th to March 2nd at the AMD booth (#2M61 Hall 2).
“We are excited to collaborate with AMD once again to demonstrate our latest RF capabilities at the upcoming Mobile World Congress,” said Naveen Yanduru, Vice President of RF Engineering, Renesas Infrastructure Business Division. “Using our turnkey hardware solution, developers of 5G RF wireless infrastructure systems can reduce development time and cost. We are confident that this solution will set a new standard in RF performance and efficiency for the wireless communications market.”
The new 5G design platform integrates all essential RF and digital front-end hardware for base stations operating in the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) ecosystem. This includes a high-isolation multi-throw DPD (digital pre-distortion) switch, a high-gain, linearity pre-driver in a compact package, an integrated switch and low-noise amplifier (LNA) with signal-coupling functionality. Prohibited.
The complete RF front-end platform is designed to efficiently process and transmit data for wireless networks at optimized power levels. Additionally, it has been integrated into the AMD RFSoC DFE ZCU670 evaluation kit for rapid prototyping and rapid development of wireless networking systems. The platform delivers superior RF performance while minimizing DPD resources for TX channel linearization, improving radio efficiency and ultimately reducing operational costs for wireless network providers.
The RF front-end solution is also the latest 5G solution jointly developed by Renesas and AMD. Previously, the two companies collaborated on the high-performance RF timing solution for 5G Next-Gen (5G NR) radio, which incorporates Renesas' IEEE 1588-enabled system synchronizer as part of the ZCU670 DFE evaluation kit.
“The RFMC expansion connectors on the ZCU670 evaluation board allow our customers to quickly prototype and evaluate a complete RF line design for their radio. To demonstrate, we again collaborated with Renesas to develop an optimized RF Front End reference design targeting the N78 band,” said Brendan Farley, Corporate Vice President of Wireless Engineering at AMD. “As the 5G OpenRAN radio (O-RU) market continues to grow, these reference designs will help accelerate time to market for our mutual customers with proven solutions.”
