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 production grade IP such as advanced LDPC, alongside scalable reference designs and hardware-validated solutions. Our AI enhanced 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 Advanced Holdover: AI replaces costly OCXOs with TCXOs while maintaining holdover accuracy—or maintain longer holdover with your existing OCXO. Ideal for timing-critical applications in O-RAN, TSN, and industrial automation. Enables 30–50% oscillator BOM savings and substantially longer holdover times.
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 Macro RU 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.
Altera’s “Sail River” workload for 4TR and 8TR O-RU is built to support openness, adhering to O-RAN and 3GPP standards. It delivers proven, integrated CUSM plane functions that are scalable, adaptable and customizable to different application requirements.
Altera’s 8TR 40W O-RU hardware whitebox platform delivers a pre-production O-RU RF hardware in a compact mechanical footprint delivering high power RF performance.
Massive MIMO radios power everything from dense urban deployments to wide-area coverage, enabling both capacity gains and extended range. Our high-performance Agilex 7 FPGA fabric delivers industry-leading performance per watt efficiently performing complex tasks such as beamforming. Altera’s delivers a scalable mMIMO O-RU Cat B / C Enablement Package pre-integrated and validated into our 32TR mMIMO O-RU Whitebox. Fully field-upgradeable and O-RAN compliant, these solutions accelerate time to market, reduce OPEX and CAPEX, and future-proof your RAN with a clear path to next generation Cat C/ULPI systems.
Altera’s mMIMO Enablement Package delivers a complete 32T32R mMIMO Cat B / Cat C solution for CUSM plane built on production-grade IP and tested Altera’s whitebox RF hardware. This ADC/DAC vendor-agnostic design supports high capacity with minimal performance trade-offs, enabling scalable, power-efficient, and high-throughput mMIMO telco deployments.
Altera’s “Olympia Bridge” mMIMO workload is built to support openness, adhering to O-RAN and 3GPP standards. Powered by Agilex 7, it delivers a highly optimized ORAN, Beamforming, LL1 and DxC with proven IP that is scalable and adaptable to customer-specific requirements.
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 cloudnative 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.
Learn more
Altera’s Fronthaul Gateway Enablement Package simplifies multi-vendor interoperability across network generations (4G/5G) with modular IP, integrated switching, and 1588 timing support converting from 4G CPRI to 5G ORAN with integration of LL1 functionality. Its flexible architecture is designed to smoothly evolve toward future 6G deployments. The architecture is scalable and can support other applications such as Fronthaul Multiplexer (FHM) and Cell Site Router (CSR).
Learn more