Recently RADX Technologies Corporation, Xilinx and ADI company in the years 2012 SCTE Cable-Tec exhibition (SCTE Cable-Tec Expo) joint demonstration of the industry's most scalable EdgeQAM programmable solutions. These innovative solutions enable cable television equipment OEM vendors to develop and deploy next-generation EdgeQAM products to meet the diverse needs of cable operators for the most demanding QAM application, the application from the hotel to the full integration of wired Access Platform (CCAP) solutions.
EdgeQAM technology solution uses the Xilinx Alliance Program members RADX certified company FrontierEQ ™ IP, Xilinx's 28nm Kintex ™ -7 and / or Virtex®-7 FPGA, and ADI's AD9129 DAC, so OEM manufacturers can deploy low cost, low power and extremely advanced programmable systems. RADX IP support comprises 32-160 unicast channels and up to 640 unicast / broadcast channels in a single FPGA J.83 Annex A / C / B kernel; support a certain frequency range the frequency channel numbers arbitrarily arranged Jie upconverter (the DUC); and non-linear correction ADI licensed for lifting the digital DAC linearity over the entire spectral range of cable pre-distortion (DPD) module.
RADX CEO and co-founder Ross Q. Smith, said: "We are collaborating with Xilinx and ADI for EdgeQAM system
OEM manufacturers to bring a watershed solution. FrontierEQ EdgeQAM IP and reference platform that unleashes the Xilinx 7 series FPGA and ADI DAC excellent feature that allows OEM manufacturers of all sizes are able to record the speed of the introduction of the most advanced markets in the budget range, low power consumption , high-performance EdgeQAM solutions. Because the solution is programmable, so we basically avoid the risk of a fixed function ASIC solutions inherent in supporting the new standard. "
One EdgeQAM technology solutions biggest advantage RADX, Xilinx, ADI to create a joint, that is, with a programmable function. This is the solution for Xilinx FPGA-based brings inherent characteristics, so OEM manufacturers can be reprogrammed in the field or factory solutions to meet the ever-changing industry standards and / or customer requirements. Compared with ASIC-based solution, this solution architecture brought about by "forward-looking" programmable logic solutions of a unique advantage.
Unprecedented high scalability, channel density and low power consumption
Another big advantage of FPGA-based products is of EdgeQAM, OEM manufacturers can place their electronic components integrated into a single chip to reduce the bill of materials (BOM) cost and power requirements, which is the main system of the next generation EdgeQAM industry requirements. The EdgeQAM technology solutions by leveraging RADX FrontierEQ IP J.83 core provides scalability and Xilinx 7 Series FPGA series of capabilities that enable unprecedented scalability and channel density, and provide excellent support. Each blade or 1U system supports up to 12 RF frequency (RF) ports, and each port can support 32-160 RF QAM channels, so that each subsystem can support hundreds of channels. At the same time, the effective power per channel with the previous generation of low-power solutions, has remained flat or even declined. Indeed, a mid-size power system generally CCCP solution is less than 135 mW / channel (the data in accordance with standard RADX FrontierEQ EdgeQAM IP core set, Xilinx Virtex-7 X485T FPGA, the external DDR3 memory, two ADI AD9129 dual port 320 DAC and RF power amplifier channel solution CCCP calculated)
Aaron Behman Xilinx broadcast and consumer marketing senior manager, said: "Xilinx with ADI RADX and work together for OEM manufacturers to develop a solution that can be mass-produced, build scalable low-power EdgeQAM products as they laid the comprehensive and comprehensive basis, and OEM manufacturers can add their own EdgeQAM product differentiation IP core. in this way, cable television equipment OEM manufacturers can not only accelerate the process on the market a new generation EdgeQAM products, while ensuring that its products are "forward-looking" adapt to changing standards, so apart from the competition. "
High flexibility and high performance
The solution uses a frequency FrontierEQ Czech DUC and NLC, combined with the use of new Analog Device AD9129, enables OEM manufacturers and their customers in real-time channel arranged at any frequency, and can achieve more than 45dB of average balanced modulation over the entire cable television band error rate (MER). This high degree of flexibility and superior performance allows OEM manufacturers to easily meet strict DRFI and CCAP RF standards.
Carlton Lane ADI high-speed DAC marketing manager, said: "Working with Xilinx RADX and brought very competitive for OEM manufacturers, scalable, and downstream DOCSIS 3.0 specification cable TV reference design solution is the industry's most .AD9129 fast DAC, speeds of up to 5.6 GSPS. high bandwidth that can be integrated throughout the 1.4GHz band on a single cable RF port. in addition, AD9129 has the industry's lowest power consumption, small PCB board footprint, combined with the latest Xilinx 7 series FPGA, as well as RADX IP and reference designs, making it EdgeQAM solution on the market very competitive. "
Reference platform approach
To simplify the development of OEM manufacturers, faster time to market, RADX has developed a series of integrated FrontierEQ EdgeQAM RADX FrontierEQ reference platforms, including those based on Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA VC707 Evaluation Kit or Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Evaluation Kit module , based on the Analog Devices AD9129 evaluation board module, RADX value-added precision timing and power module, and FrontierEQ firmware, test software and support platform. With FrontierEQ reference platform, OEM manufacturers almost overnight to complete the integration and operation of working components and need not spend too much valuable design time.
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