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NEC

Home > About Altera > Customer Successes > Customer Showcase > NEC
3GPP W-CDMA Macro Base Station Transceiver

Company:
NEC Corp.

Product Name:
3GPP W-CDMA Macro Base Station Transceiver

Product Type:
Base Station Transceiver for Wireless Networks

Altera Products Chosen:
Cyclone® FPGAs
Quartus® II Software
MAX® CPLDs
Code: DSP Solutions


NEC Corp. will use Cyclone® FPGAs and MAX® 3000 CPLDs in their 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) macro basestations that support high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA). NEC selected Altera® devices because of the cost benefits as well as Altera’s extensive RoHS-compliant programmable logic product offering.

HSDPA is a significant enhancement to W-CDMA and can achieve speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps. The 3GPP, a collaborative project for global standardization of third-generation mobile communication systems, has specified HSDPA technology to address the growing demand for data services and mobile multimedia such as digital images, movies and video conferencing. Based on W-CDMA, NEC’s next-generation mobile network products achieve high bandwidth by complying with the 3GPP Release 5 standards, which require support for HSDPA service.

Altera’s extensive support for wireless infrastructure development includes both device and intellectual property (IP) solutions for HSDPA basestations. Cyclone series FPGAs deliver unparalleled performance for digital signal processing (DSP) and other functions implemented in HSDPA basestations, at the lowest cost. Additionally, Altera DSP IP MegaCore® functions address many of the high-speed signal processing requirements of the baseband modem and digital intermediate frequency (IF) functions.

“By choosing Altera, we gained access to the lowest-cost FPGAs and CPLDs in the world and were able to take advantage of their considerable experience with 3G wireless technology.  As a result, we were able to jointly architect an innovative and world-class DSP solution for our W-CDMA macro basestation. We also shared product roadmaps and established a clear path to further cost reduction with Altera’s Cyclone II and MAX II device families.”

Dr. Nobuhiro Endo
Senior General Manager
Mobile Network Operations Unit

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