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Design, Develop, and Implement 5G Technologies with Proven IP and Design Tools
Next-generation 5G/6G systems will provide massive connectivity to the internet with extreme capacity, coverage, reliability, and ultra-low latency, enabling a wide range of new services made possible through innovative technologies. However, 5G performance goals will challenge the communications industry. Demands from using the millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequency spectrum for both handsets and infrastructure will require several system architecture changes. With Cadence’s extensive portfolio for creating high-complexity electronic-centric systems, you can design advanced-node SoCs, RFICs, power amplifiers, transceivers, packages, or RF PCBs—all meeting the 5G requirements for very high data rates, connected-device count, reliability, and security, as well as very low latency and long battery life.
Key Benefits
Speeding 5G Communications Development
Full System Analysis
Analyze thermal, electromagnetic, and circuit behaviors
Save Design Time
Manage long SoC development schedules and minimize the risk of re-spins
Low Power
Extend the battery life with low-power design techniques
Accelerated Design Verification
Design and verify complex designs with high-speed interfaces and demanding security requirements
Offerings
Overview
By offering the capacity to carry plenty of data while traveling significant distances, the mid-band spectrum of 3.5GHz to 6GHz is considered perfect for 5G handsets. Highly integrated RF modules aim to exploit this very large bandwidth, but first they must meet significant challenges for linearity, power efficiency, and thermal management to be successful in the handset market. You face intense pressure on form factor with tight integration of RFICs, baseband, power management, discretes, and filtering with advanced packaging. Explore how Cadence can help you more quickly design a smaller, lower power handset through the co-design of RFIC/MMIC, BAW/SAW filters, packages, and modules with system-level thermal and electromagnetic (EM) in-design analysis; IP; fast simulation and chip verification; and compact DSPs.
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5G uses existing and new mmWave spectrum combined with advanced steerable antenna arrays for significant improvements of the uplink and downlink RF air interface to and from the digital fronthaul. To counter the high signal attenuation that occurs at mmWave frequencies, 5G antenna systems employ electronic beamforming to concentrate and direct the signal energy over greater distances. Components found in fixed wireless access (FWA) basestations and customer-premises equipment (CPE), including mixed-technology RF front-end (RFFE) chipsets and multi-layer interconnecting PCB feed networks to an array of antenna elements, require best-in-class design, analysis, and implementation solutions across many technologies. Cadence design tools can help you meet high-frequency and beamforming requirements.
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5G baseband and high-performance computing (HPC) meet in mobile edge-computing centers, and like HPC, the latest digital, network, and machine learning (ML) technologies are driving the market. Fundamental to this are the digital design and signoff tools with class-leading power, performance, and area (PPA) outcomes on advanced nodes, where SoC designs incorporate increasing numbers of CPU and AI processor cores. To enable you to build these complex SoCs, Cadence offers baseband through RF communication system budget and spurious emission analysis, EM and thermal system analysis, IP, 3D-IC solutions for chiplet interconnection, and tools for early software development and high-speed board design.
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Radiohead and baseband will no longer be found at the top and bottom of mobile operators’ masts for 5G, but relocated even deeper into the fabric of cities and buildings and into edge computing data centers, respectively. This significant increase in their physical separation, combined with the ultra-low latency targets for 5G, means the connection of the two (fronthaul) needs a fresh approach. To meet 5G fronthaul timing, frequency, and synchronization requirements, high-speed optical interconnect and optical transceivers for remote radioheads and baseband offer a solution. Cadence offers integrated silicon photonic and electronic co-design for optical transceivers and 100G Ethernet IP support for complicated 5G fronthaul connectivity to multiple radioheads.
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