LTE ENB HW Reference Design
Our 4G&5G RAN hardware reference designs could play a vital role in your small cell and RU product development processes. They shorten time to market, ensure quality and compatibility, reduce costs, and foster innovation by inspiration. Likewise they could be used as blueprint for OEMs.
About reference designs
One of the primary benefits of hardware reference designs is their ability to accelerate the product development process. Creating a small cell product from scratch entails intricate engineering tasks, such as mixed-signal / RF analog PCB design, power management, thermal considerations, bearing in mind ultimate device modules integration. By leveraging our reference designs, OEMs and ODMs can save considerable time and effort by utilizing our field-proven architectures, components, and layouts. This allows them to focus more on customization and differentiation, rather than starting from square one.
Baseband modules
Designing the baseband PCB modules for small cell & RU devices poses challenges such as managing signal and power integrity, thermal management, size constraints, power efficiency, and manufacturability. Balancing these factors is crucial to create compact, reliable, and high-performing small cells.We offer reference designs of field proven baseband 4G small cell modules that are based on cutting-edge IC components e.g. Marvell® OCTEON Fusion® CNF93xx SoC family, Analog Devices® Wideband transceivers and AMD® FPGA devices.
Analog-Front Ends
Designing the Analog Front-End (AFE) for 4G&5G small cell and RU devices presents challenges such as handling multiple frequency bands, reconfigurability, overall RX/TX performance and conformance, achieving power efficiency, optimizing size and form factor, managing thermal issues, and addressing manufacturing variations. Overcoming these challenges requires expertise in RF circuit design, simulation, and collaboration among different engineering disciplines. Beside that maintaining quality demands sufficient laboratory resources.We can speed up your 4G&5G small cell & RU product development proces providing reference designs of Analog Fron-Ends operating in different frequency bands (450 MHz - 3.8GHz) and TX power classes (100mW - 40W).
Power Supply modules
Designing power supply modules for small cell & RU devices poses challenges such as size constraints, power efficiency, thermal management, power stability, input/out voltage range, and EMI/EMC compliance. Balancing these factors is crucial to create compact, efficient, and reliable power supply solutions for various small cell types. We can offer blueprints of power supply solution that could be a good starting point for your new product development processes.
Mechanical solutions
The mechanical design of small cell & RU devices presents challenges in terms of size constraints, thermal management, environmental durability, mounting and installation and serviceability.We can provide mechanical blueprints as well. Although they are suitable for usage with other Vergewave hardware modules, they could serve as a starting point for other architectures too.