UMTS Enterprise Femtocell provide the full capacity of the UMTS carrier in a limited cell size and handles 32 to 64 users while delivering full HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA+ performance. They need to be highly integrated to reduce the complete system BOM. This requires a rich set of interfaces that interconnect directly to the RF transceiver, the oscillator, flash and backhaul.

Multiple clock control mechanisms are supported such as NTP, IEEE1588, GPS and GSM/UMTS listen modes.

The software flexibility and high performance of the OCT2224W coupled with its multiple radio IQ interfaces allow a multiple air interface to be run concurrently.

The following diagram shows how to build a highly integrated femtocell using a single OCT2224W device. It interfaces with the radio sub-system through a direct parallel interface that supports MIMO. The embedded CPU will handle the RNC protocols as well as Iuh, the 3GPP protocol specified for the femtocell architecture.

The OCT2224W architecture has been designed to handle by software all known cellular standards.

Modems are implemented mostly in software but use a few hardware accelerators that are highly programmable and can adapt to future cellular standards revisions and evolutions.

Octasic offers a WCDMA-HSPA Layer 1 Library in source code format, compliant with 3GPP TS 25 141 and optimized for the OCT2224W Opus2 DSP cores. The programmability of the OCT224W lets system integrators add in their proprietary algorithms, such as Listen Modes, Auto Configure, Schedulers, and Proprietary Encryption.

Reference System

Octasic offers a reference system built around its OCT2224W baseband system connected to Analog Devices UMTS Femtocell radio reference system. The reference software integrates Octasic’s Layer 1 and Radisys (previously Continuous Computing) RNC protocol stack using the Femto Forum FAPI interface.

Development Tools

Octasic offers a complete set of development tools for the OCT2200 Series of devices. Opus Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE), provides the necessary tools for code editing, compiling, simulation, debugging, and profiling. Octasic also provides a real-time kernel and RTOS services upon which embedded applications can rapidly be developed.

Documentation

Go to OCT2224W & WCDMA-HSPA Layer 1 Library, Octasic’s Wireless Products.