The Radio Access Network (RAN) is rapidly evolving with the emergence of 6G, AI-driven optimizations, and increasingly diverse global standards. As demand grows for intelligent, differentiated wireless solutions, Altera FPGAs are purpose-built to meet these challenges—delivering the performance, power efficiency, and flexibility required for next-generation RAN architectures. With optimized silicon and tools, production-ready IPs and comprehensive O-RU Enablement Packages, Altera empowers customers to accelerate time to market and tailor AI-enhanced solutions for specific geographies, operators, and deployment models.
FPGAs are inherently reprogrammable, enabling rapid adaptation to new wireless standards—whether it’s shifting functional splits, protocol updates, or fresh spectrum allocations. Stay ahead of change without redesigning your hardware.
Built on advanced nodes with Hyperflex™ architecture, Altera FPGAs deliver industry-leading performance per watt—enabling real-time signal processing, high throughput, and lower OPEX without sacrificing flexibility or upgradeability.
Embed AI/ML inference, advanced beamforming, proprietary signal processing, or unique algorithms directly into your design. With Altera production O-RAN IP library and AI/ML example designs, you can deliver tailored, differentiated features—and get to market faster.
The next wave of wireless innovation—6G AI RAN—is already here, and Altera is ready with FPGA-optimized productiongrade IP such as advanced LDPC, alongside scalable reference designs and hardware-validated solutions. Our AIenhanced demos showcase early 6G implementations, enabling continuous optimization as standards evolve. Fully adaptable, these FPGA-based solutions accelerate your path into AI-driven 6G, reducing risk, lowering costs, and future-proofing your network for the next generation of RAN intelligence
AI CSI Compression: AI compresses channel state information, reducing fronthaul bandwidth up to 10× while preserving accuracy. Essential for scalable RAN deployments and lower transport costs. This compression algorithm can be taken and modified for many compression use cases.
AI CSI Compression: AI compresses channel state information, reducing fronthaul bandwidth up to 10× while preserving accuracy. Essential for scalable RAN deployments and lower transport costs. This compression algorithm can be taken and modified for many compression use cases.
AI Digital Pre-Distortion: AI-enhanced digital pre-distortion improves power amplifier efficiency and linearity, reducing power draw and thermal load in radio systems. In systems with power amplifiers, DPD accuracy can dramatically decrease OPEX.
AI Channel Estimation: Improves channel estimation accuracy for better spectral efficiency and link reliability in wireless PHY systems. Useful for ORAN and custom 5G/6G radio stacks. Through using an optimized DSP Builder AI implementation, we dramatically reduce DSP blocks by 67% and M20k utilization by 58% while maintaining the same throughput as traditional implementations.
Macro and micro cell radios span use cases from high-power rural sites to dense urban small cells, each requiring custom digital-front-end processing, efficient PA control, and flexible protocol support. Our radio-optimized macro/micro cell SKUs, paired with O-RU Enablement Packages, deliver production-grade IP, parameterizable reference designs, and validated hardware so you can tailor power, bandwidth, and logic to your exact requirements. Fully field-upgradeable and O-RAN compliant, these FPGA-based solutions accelerate time to market, lower OPEX/CAPEX, and keep your network ready for tomorrow’s standards.
Altera’s Sail River Enablement Package is built on production grade IP to provide a 4T4R example design. Built on our radio specific Agilex 7 Single F-tile SKU, this ADC/DAC vendor agnostic design is optimized for low cost, power efficient, and high throughput telco deployments.
Sail River is built to support openness, adhering to O-RAN and 3GPP standards. It delivers proven, integrated IP functions that are scalable and adaptable to customer-specific requirements.
Massive MIMO radios span wide-area to dense urban deployments, requiring digital beamforming, high-throughput front-end processing, and efficient PA control. Our superior FPGA fabric delivers best-in-class performance per watt, while the modular mMIMO O-RU Enablement Package combines production-grade IP with a hardware-validated reference design for scalable antenna counts and future mmWave/6G needs. Fully field-upgradeable and O-RAN compliant, these solutions accelerate time to market, reduce OPEX/CAPEX, and future-proof your network for next-generation standards.
Altera’s Olympia Bridge mMIMO Enablement Package delivers a 32T32R example built on production-grade IP. This ADC/DAC vendor-agnostic design supports high utilization with minimal performance trade-offs, enabling scalable, power-efficient, and high-throughput mMIMO telco deployments.
Olympia Bridge is built to support openness, adhering to O-RAN and 3GPP standards. Powered by Agilex, it delivers a highly optimized beamforming compute block with proven IP that is scalable and adaptable to customer-specific requirements.
Olympia Bridge offers a flexible mechanical and development platform for mMIMO O-RUs, supporting PCB sources and BSP for rapid prototyping. With multiple licensing options, it enables IP development, validation, and demonstration from O-RAN LLS 7.2A through 7.2C, including user IP and application software.
Virtualized RAN and next-gen fronthaul demand flexible, low-latency, high-throughput processing. Altera’s FPGA-based acceleration platforms offload demanding workloads from CPUs, combining efficient parallel processing with cloud-native flexibility. Leveraging the Acceleration Development Package (ADP), Altera enables operators to rapidly scale deployments, reduce OPEX/CAPEX, and accelerate time-to-market—delivering optimal performance for both brownfield and greenfield networks.
Altera’s N6000 vRAN package delivers integrated xHAUL connectivity, LDPC FEC acceleration, and precision 1588 timing. Supporting Split 7-2x, virtualization, and optimized power, it accelerates high-performance, scalable 5G deployments.
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Altera’s Fronthaul Gateway Enablement Package simplifies multi-vendor interoperability across network generations (4G/5G) with modular IP, integrated switching, and 1588 timing support. Its flexible architecture is designed to smoothly evolve toward future 6G deployments.
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