A software-defined radio based basestation reference design was jointly demonstrated at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by Axis Network Technology, Commagility and Mimoon.

Mimoon's Mi! Pico T basestation software was integrated on Commagility's AMC-3C87F3 signal processing module. Axis integrated remote radio heads provided a software definable platform that combined multi-band and multi-mode capabilities.

"Next generation networks such as LTE demand high processing capabilities but with optimised and cost-sensitive architectures,” said Thomas Kaiser, CEO of Mimoon. “By combining advanced LTE software with flexible radio head technology from Axis and Micro TCA-based hardware from Commagility, we have been able to provide a turnkey solution that will meet the performance and cost targets of basestation OEMs and service providers."

The software encompassed phy and protocol stack layers are based on the latest versions of the 3GPP standards. Mimoon's software is modular and written in Ansi-C, which allows flexibility and scalability, with algorithms such as channel estimators and mimo detectors.

The AMC-3C87F3 is a 4G wireless phy processing and timing module in the AMC form factor. It includes three SFP module sites for remote radio head interfaces, a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA and three Texas Instruments multicore DSPs, Gigabit Ethernet and an IDT Serial Rapid IO infrastructure, and a GPS receiver.