VortiQa® Layer 1 Baseband Software

Overview

Our commercial grade VortiQa^® Layer 1 baseband software for wireless infrastructure is designed for use with NXP’s QorIQ^® Qonverge BSC913x family of devices. The software is designed to support both 4G (FDD-LTE, TDD-LTE and LTE-Advanced) and 3G (WCDMA, HSPA+) cellular technologies. QorIQ Qonverge^® BSC9131 SoC is targeted for residential femtocells and the BSC9132 SoC is targeted for indoor and outdoor enterprise picocells. The BSC9131 device consists of a single tile (e500 Power Architecture(R) core + SC3850 StarCore^® DSP core) whereas the BSC9132 is a dual-tile architecture. NXP’s Smart DSP operating system (SDOS) powers the StarCore DSPs. The VortiQa L1 software stack has been integrated with 3rd party L2/L3 stacks, NXP’s VortiQa IPsec software, and end to end qualified with both test and commercial UEs on an optimized FSL HW development platform. This full system solution strategy significantly accelerates time to market goals for prospective customers.

The commercial quality VortiQa L1 software for LTE is designed for both FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE modes of operation that are compliant to 3GPP Rel 8, 9 and 10 standards. The L1 software for WCDMA is designed to support both voice (R99) and data services (HSDPA and HSUPA) and is compliant to the 3GPP Rel 8 standard. A key feature of VortiQa L1 software is support for simultaneous operation of 4G and 3G technologies on a single silicon (BSC9132) platform. This enables technology upgrades with no change to hardware configuration resulting in significant savings in network CapEx and OpEx.

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Features

VortiQa^® L1 Software Supported on BSC9131 SoC:

FDD-LTE L1 *

3GPP release 9 support
Maximum aggregate PHY throughput – 150 Mbps
Maximum throughput at 20 MHz - 110 Mbps DL / 37 Mbps UL
Multi-bandwidth support (1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz)
Qualified on multiple RF bands (1, 7, 10, 12, 13)
Up to 32 active UEs and up to 4 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Localized and distributed PDSCH, localized PUSCH
Downlink control channel support (PDCCH, PHICH, PFICH, BCH, SSH)
All PUCCH formats (1/1a/1b/2/2a/2b)
Closed loop power control (PUCCH, PUSCH)
V1.1 FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
Frequency hopping and SRS support
3GPP 36.141 conformance
Cell search (TDD LTE, FDD LTE, WCDMA bands)
Handover (X2) and measurements support
Fully end-to-end and handover tested with 3rd party L2 and EPC
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (FFA, Pantech, AeroFlex)

TDD-LTE L1 *

3GPP release 9 support
Maximum aggregate PHY throughput – 150 Mbps
Maximum throughput at 20 MHz - 130 Mbps DL / 60 Mbps UL
Multi-bandwidth support (10, 15 and 20 MHz)
Multi-configuration (0-6) and special subframe (0-9) support
Qualified on multiple RF bands (38, 40, 41, 42)
Up to 32 active UEs and up to 4 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Localized and distributed PDSCH, localized PUSCH
Downlink control channel support (PDCCH, PHICH, PFICH, BCH, SSH)
All PUCCH formats (1/1a/1b/2/2a/2b)
Closed loop power control (PUCCH, PUSCH)
V1.1 FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
SRS support
3GPP 36.141 conformance
Cell search (TDD LTE, FDD LTE bands)
Handover (X2) and measurements support
Fully end-to-end and handover tested with 3rd party L2 and EPC
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (Huawei, AeroFlex)

VortiQa L1 Software Supported on BSC9132 SoC:

Dual tile configuration can support dual sector operation on a single RAT like FDD-LTE, TDD-LTE or WCDMA with double the capacity
Dual tile configuration can also support single sector simultaneous multimode operation in two different configurations with single sector capacity
- FDD-LTE + WCDMA
- FDD-LTE + TDD-LTE

FDD-LTE L1 *

3GPP release 9 and 10 support
Maximum aggregate PHY throughput – 225 Mbps
Maximum throughput at 20 MHz - 150 Mbps DL / 75 Mbps UL
Multi-bandwidth support (1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz)
Qualified on multiple RF bands (1, 7, 10, 12, 13)
Up to 64 active UEs and up to 8 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Localized and distributed PDSCH, localized PUSCH
Downlink control channel support (PDCCH, PHICH, PFICH, BCH, SSH)
All PUCCH formats (1/1a/1b/2/2a/2b)
Closed loop power control (PUCCH, PUSCH)
V1.1 FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
3GPP 36.141 conformance
Cell search (TDD LTE, FDD LTE, WCDMA bands)
Handover (X2) and measurements support
Downlink carrier aggregation, MBSFN, PRS and eICIC support
Frequency hopping, SRS and CoMP support
Fully end-to-end and handover tested with 3rd party L2 and EPC
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (FFA, Pantech, AeroFlex)

TDD-LTE L1 *

3GPP release 9 and 10 support
Maximum aggregate PHY throughput – 190 Mbps
Maximum throughput at 20 MHz - 130 Mbps DL / 60 Mbps UL
Multi-bandwidth support (10, 15 and 20 MHz)
Multi-configuration (0-6) and special subframe (0-9) support
Qualified on multiple RF bands (38, 40, 41, 42)
Up to 64 active UEs and up to 8 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Localized and distributed PDSCH, localized PUSCH
Downlink control channel support (PDCCH, PHICH, PFICH, BCH, SSH)
All PUCCH formats (1/1a/1b/2/2a/2b)
Closed loop power control (PUCCH, PUSCH)
V1.1 FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
Downlink carrier aggregation, MBSFN, PRS and eICIC support
SRS and CoMP support
3GPP 36.141 conformance
Cell search (TDD LTE, FDD LTE bands)
Handover (X2) and measurements support
Fully end-to-end and handover tested with 3rd party L2 and EPC
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (Huawei, AeroFlex)

WCDMA Features on BSC9132 *

Release 99, release 8 HSDPA and HSUPA support – 42 Mbps DL / 11 Mbps UL
Up to 16 active UEs (R99 voice and/or HSPA data) and up to 8 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Common control channel support
Closed loop power control
FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
3GPP 25.141 conformance
Cell search (LTE and WCDMA bands)
Handover and measurements support
End-to-end tested with 3rd party L2 and core network
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (FFA, AeroFlex)

* Note:
Please consult NXP for the exact feature list and support of 3GPP. Some 3GPP feature are mandatory and some are not.

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Features

VortiQa^® L1 Software Supported on BSC9131 SoC:

FDD-LTE L1 *

3GPP release 9 support
Maximum aggregate PHY throughput – 150 Mbps
Maximum throughput at 20 MHz - 110 Mbps DL / 37 Mbps UL
Multi-bandwidth support (1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz)
Qualified on multiple RF bands (1, 7, 10, 12, 13)
Up to 32 active UEs and up to 4 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Localized and distributed PDSCH, localized PUSCH
Downlink control channel support (PDCCH, PHICH, PFICH, BCH, SSH)
All PUCCH formats (1/1a/1b/2/2a/2b)
Closed loop power control (PUCCH, PUSCH)
V1.1 FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
Frequency hopping and SRS support
3GPP 36.141 conformance
Cell search (TDD LTE, FDD LTE, WCDMA bands)
Handover (X2) and measurements support
Fully end-to-end and handover tested with 3rd party L2 and EPC
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (FFA, Pantech, AeroFlex)

TDD-LTE L1 *

3GPP release 9 support
Maximum aggregate PHY throughput – 150 Mbps
Maximum throughput at 20 MHz - 130 Mbps DL / 60 Mbps UL
Multi-bandwidth support (10, 15 and 20 MHz)
Multi-configuration (0-6) and special subframe (0-9) support
Qualified on multiple RF bands (38, 40, 41, 42)
Up to 32 active UEs and up to 4 UE / TTI support
Downlink 2x2 MIMO and uplink receive diversity support
Localized and distributed PDSCH, localized PUSCH
Downlink control channel support (PDCCH, PHICH, PFICH, BCH, SSH)
All PUCCH formats (1/1a/1b/2/2a/2b)
Closed loop power control (PUCCH, PUSCH)
V1.1 FAPI compliant (partial and full reconfiguration)
SRS support
3GPP 36.141 conformance
Cell search (TDD LTE, FDD LTE bands)
Handover (X2) and measurements support
Fully end-to-end and handover tested with 3rd party L2 and EPC
Interoperability with test and commercial UEs (Huawei, AeroFlex)

VortiQa L1 Software Supported on BSC9132 SoC:

Dual tile configuration can support dual sector operation on a single RAT like FDD-LTE, TDD-LTE or WCDMA with double the capacity
Dual tile configuration can also support single sector simultaneous multimode operation in two different configurations with single sector capacity
- FDD-LTE + WCDMA
- FDD-LTE + TDD-LTE