mi!Femto™

Product Description

miFemtocell

Complete LTE Physical & Protocol Layers for Femtocells on SDR, DSP & ASIC Platforms

  • mi!FemtoPHYTM 3GPP Fully Compliant LTE PHY
  • mi!FemtoSTACKTM 3GPP Fully Compliant LTE MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, S1AP, X2AP, GTP-U, SCTP, RRM, SON & ANR
  • Entirely software defined delivering and enabling flexibility and scalability
  • Optimized for low memory, processing power, and power consumption
  • Innovative algorithms such as advanced Femto schedulers
  • Comprehensive & configurable debug infrastructure

mi!Femto™ is based on a modular architecture and flexible interfaces to enable fast porting and easy adaptation to specific system modules. Since the LTE standard is defined for a large range of system capabilities, the software has been made highly configurable. This enables tailoring of the required features and efficient utilization of the available hardware resources; reduction of the required resources will minimize the bill of materials for the end device. The software is fully compliant with 3GPP Release 8. The design benefits from the strong experience of mimoOn in high performance algorithms for multi-antenna systems. This is a crucial feature for efficient spectrum usage and maximal data throughput within the system. This means among other features, 64QAM modulation at highest data rates, and all MIMO modes such as SISO, SM, and SFBC. mi!Femto™ will support the maximum number of 8 users.

Key Features

  • 3GPP Fully Compliant LTE PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, S1AP, X2AP, GTP-U, SCTP, RRM, SON & ANR
  • Implemented on Low Cost, High Performance Industry leading Baseband Chipset
  • Entirely Software Defined, Easy to Customize and Upgrade
  • Designed in ANSI C which Allows Flexibility and Scalability
  • Optimized for Low Memory, Processing Power, and Power Consumption
  • Innovative Algorithms such as Advanced Schedulers for Enhanced Spectrum Efficiency
  • Advanced Femtocell Innovations such as Performance-Optimized MIMO and Self-Organizing Networks
  • Comprehensive and Configurable Debug Infrastructure
  • Pre-certified through Test Partners
  • Quick Time-to-Market and Low Risk

Key Specifications

  • 3GPP Release 8
  • FDD/TDD (2H2010)
  • Cat 1, 2, 3 UE support
  • 1 or 2 Tx Antennas, 1 or 2 Rx Antenna
  • All DL channels implemented (PBCH, PCFICH, PDCCH, PDSCH, PHICH, PSS/SSS)
  • SISO and all MIMO modes (transmit diversity, large delay CDD, closed loop spatial multiplexing)
  • DL power control
  • All resource allocation types (including virtual resource blocks)
  • All UL channels implemented (SRS, PRACH, PUCCH, PUSCH)
  • All hopping modes included
  • Channel estimation and timing measurement
  • Interference estimation
  • HARQ control
  • 8 users

Platforms

LTE femtoPHY

Texas Instruments are the world leading supplier of high performance DSPs for wireless infrastructure. mimoOn’s mi!FemtoPHY™ software has been integrated on TI’s TMS320TCI648X highly flexible, scaleable processors targeting LTE products.

TI’s 648X series processors allow equipment manufacturers the advantages of design and code reuse, since the processors can be scaled to meet both the intensive processing demands of macro basestations, as well as the cost constraints of the residential femtocell.

The DSP’s are assembled on an AMC-3C87F3-GPS card from Commagility. The attached RF communicates via a CPRI connection to the baseband card. The protocol stack is implemented on a standard Intel AMC card residing next to the baseband.

mimoOn offers the 3GPP LTE Stack software package mi!FemtoSTACK™ for an Intel based AMC platform defined by mimoOn.

The implementation is in ANSI C/C++ and is suitable to be ported to a wide variety of embedded Processors, and can also be used for simulation on a PC platform.