NXP Showcases Base Station TRx Component Demonstrator for LTE / LTE Advanced Wireless Air Interface Standards at IMS 2011

According to Cisco Visual Networking Index, global mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold between 2010 and 2015. Increasing mobile phone minutes and mobile data usage continues to transform and drive demand for wireless base transceiver stations.
As the number of users and higher data usage requirements increase, higher capacity networks require the deployment of more BTS systems, resulting in more transmit and receive channels per BTS system and in increasing medium to small cell sizes. Cellular providers, municipalities across the globe, and wireless original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are pushing for higher system efficiencies. Next-generation BTS systems require and must leverage proven and innovative High Performance RF components to optimize cost, size and power efficiency.

Supporting Quotes

Kees Schetters, director, wireless infrastructure, NXP Semiconductors said, “This BTS radio component demonstrator will showcase NXP’s unique set of technologies ranging from RF/IF amplifiers to frequency synthesizers and IQ modulators to RF modules based on NXP’s proprietary QUBiC4 SiGe:C processes and industrial capabilities.This set of components finds its way in today’s multi standard basestation platforms, as well as repeaters and point-to-point systems supporting next generation communication standards like LTE Advanced.



LTE 4x Increased Spectral Efficiency, 10x Users Per Cell
3GPP: “Spectral efficiency is increased by up to four-fold compared with UTRA, and improvements in architecture and signalling reduce round-trip latency. Multiple Input / Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna technology should enable 10 times as many users per cell as 3GPP’s original W CDMA radio access technology.
Demo Features

A global leader in RF technology and component design, NXP Semiconductors offers a broad portfolio of products from discrete to highly integrated devices in order to support next generation base station design. At IMS 2011, design engineers will have the opportunity to review the following fully functional BTS components:

TX BTS Application Board
Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) and Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Radio Frequency Small Signal component for transmit line ups from quadrature modulators to MPAs to Tx VGAs and LO Synthesizers

PA&FE Board
RF Power device with industry-leading LDMOS technology

RX BTS Application Board
Radio Frequency Small Signal component for receive line ups from LNAs to dual down mixers to IF VGAs and LO Synthesizers
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)

Benefits of NXP’s base station technology
Strong position in RF power transistors for basestation power amplifiers
Extensive portfolio of RF small signal components based on QUBIC4 BiCMOS
Highly competitive data converter portfolio including JESD204A-compliant devices
Enabling technology to support OEMs in future TRx radio design and partitioning.