Xilinx and NEC Accelerate Next-Generation 5G Radio Units for Global Deployment

Sep 23, 2021 — 5G radio units to incor­po­ra­te the Xilinx 7nm Ver­sal AI Core series, enab­ling breakth­rough signal pro­ces­sing for mas­si­ve MIMO beam­forming with O‑RAN interfaces

SAN JOSE, Calif. & TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Xilinx, Inc., (NASDAQ: XLNX), a lea­der in adap­ti­ve com­pu­ting, and NEC Cor­po­ra­ti­on (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announ­ced that the com­pa­nies are col­la­bo­ra­ting on NEC’s next-gene­ra­ti­on 5G radio units (RUs) expec­ted to be available for glo­bal deploy­ment in 2022. Xilinx® 7nm Ver­sal® AI Core series devices, which are curr­ent­ly ship­ping in volu­me pro­duc­tion, will enable grea­ter per­for­mance in the new NEC RUs.

The­se latest NEC 5G mas­si­ve MIMO RUs uti­li­ze digi­tal beam­forming for more effi­ci­ent com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and wider band­width. Desi­gned to address world­wi­de mar­kets, NEC RUs will sup­port a wide ran­ge of 5G fre­quen­ci­es, inclu­ding C‑Band. The Xilinx Ver­sal AI Core series devices used within the NEC RUs enable advan­ced signal pro­ces­sing and beam­forming, while also inte­gra­ting O‑RAN capa­bi­li­ties. O‑RAN inter­faces enable open and fle­xi­ble 5G RAN deploy­ments, in addi­ti­on to allo­wing broa­der inter­ope­ra­bi­li­ty with pro­ducts from dif­fe­rent vendors.

NEC’s new mas­si­ve MIMO radi­os using Xilinx’s com­mer­ci­al­ly-pro­ven beam­forming capa­bi­li­ties will enable an impro­ved wire­less end-user expe­ri­ence as use cases con­ti­nue to grow and evol­ve in the future,” said Liam Mad­den, exe­cu­ti­ve vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Wired and Wire­less Group at Xilinx. “The com­bi­na­ti­on of NEC’s lea­der­ship in mas­si­ve MIMO radio design and Xilinx tech­no­lo­gy will deli­ver a com­pel­ling solu­ti­on to the ORAN market.”

In the high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve 5G base sta­ti­on mar­ket, the inte­gra­ti­on of Xilinx tech­no­lo­gy within NEC RUs will pro­vi­de valuable advan­ta­ges to our cus­to­mers who demand high­ly-capa­ble and fea­ture-rich RUs that deli­ver the per­for­mance nee­ded to sca­le for near­ly any appli­ca­ti­on,” said Keni­chi Ito, gene­ral mana­ger, 1st Wire­less Access Solu­ti­ons Divi­si­on at NEC. “The Xilinx Ver­sal AI Core series deli­vers on its design pro­mi­se for per­for­mance and sca­la­bi­li­ty by using advan­ced signal-pro­ces­sing for mas­si­ve MIMO anten­nas and beam­forming. We look for­ward to con­ti­nuing our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Xilinx.”

For more infor­ma­ti­on about Xilinx’s Ver­sal AI Core series for deli­ve­ring breakth­rough acce­le­ra­ti­on for 5G, net­wor­king, and cloud appli­ca­ti­ons, visit:
https://www.xilinx.com/applications/wired-wireless/wireless.html
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For more infor­ma­ti­on about NEC 5G RUs, visit:
https://www.nec.com/en/press/202106/global_20210623_02.html
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About Xilinx

Xilinx, Inc. deve­lo­ps high­ly fle­xi­ble and adap­ti­ve pro­ces­sing plat­forms that enable rapid inno­va­ti­on across a varie­ty of tech­no­lo­gies — from the cloud, to the edge, to the end­point. Xilinx is the inven­tor of the FPGA and Adap­ti­ve SoCs (inclu­ding our Adap­ti­ve Com­pu­te Acce­le­ra­ti­on Plat­form, or ACAP), desi­gned to deli­ver the most dyna­mic com­pu­ting tech­no­lo­gy in the indus­try. We col­la­bo­ra­te with our cus­to­mers to crea­te sca­lable, dif­fe­ren­tia­ted and intel­li­gent solu­ti­ons that enable the adap­ta­ble, intel­li­gent and con­nec­ted world of the future. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit xilinx.com.

About NEC Corporation

NEC Cor­po­ra­ti­on has estab­lished its­elf as a lea­der in the inte­gra­ti­on of IT and net­work tech­no­lo­gies while pro­mo­ting the brand state­ment of “Orchest­ra­ting a brigh­ter world.” NEC enables busi­nesses and com­mu­ni­ties to adapt to rapid chan­ges taking place in both socie­ty and the mar­ket as it pro­vi­des for the social values of safe­ty, secu­ri­ty, fair­ness and effi­ci­en­cy to pro­mo­te a more sus­tainable world whe­re ever­yo­ne has the chan­ce to reach their full poten­ti­al. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit NEC at https://www.nec.com.

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