Solution based on Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ Reduces CAPEX,
Improves Performance and Facilitates Migration to C-RAN
STOCKHOLM, June 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Enea® (NASDAQ OMX Nordic: ENEA) today announced a demonstration
of a real-time accelerated Linux solution at Mobile World Congress
Shanghai, taking place June 27-29.
The solution, suitable for 5G and C-RAN (Cloud-RAN), reduces CAPEX
and improves performance thanks to efficient hardware utilization.
The demo leverages a reference design using the Xilinx Zynq
UltraScale+ platform.
The showcased solution combines a standard Linux environment
with a real-time domain. This is perfectly in line with runtime
needs in the Radio Access Network (RAN), where low-level functions
require both determinism and high performance, while higher
protocol layers that have more relaxed real-time requirements can
run standard Linux. Enea's real-time accelerated solution allows
these functions to be consolidated onto the Cortex A cluster of the
Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ System-on-Chip (SoC). The result is a
highly flexible design, where functionality is decoupled from
hardware.
This flexible solution uses the same runtime environment on both
sides of the Central Unit (CU) / Distributed Unit (DU) split, which
facilitates a gradual evolution of the RAN, with a smooth and
phased migration of functions from a distributed to a centralized
or cloud architecture (C-RAN).
Enea's real-time accelerated Linux solution is a framework
combining standard Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) Linux with a
real-time executive, on top of a type 0/1 hypervisor which provides
bare metal access to the real-time environment and fast
inter-process communication between the domains. Intended for
homogenous multicore processors, it allows the number of cores
allocated to the real-time and Linux domains to be configured at
boot time.
The reference implementation on display at Mobile World Congress
Shanghai is running on Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+, a versatile SoC
with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 as the main processor, targeting
high performance applications including 5G and C-RAN.
More information:
- Enea at MWC Shanghai: Booth #N1F73, Hall N1,
https://www.enea.com/about-us/events/mobile-world-congress-shanghai-2018/
- Enea real-time accelerated Linux solutions:
https://www.enea.com/products/operating-systems/real-time-accelerated-linux/
- Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ platform:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-UltraScale-mpsoc.html
CONTACT:
Erik Larsson, SVP Marketing &
Communication, Enea
E-mail: erik.larsson@enea.com
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