Introducing the CEVA-XC12

The Need for Multi-Gig Wireless

The ever-increasing need for higher data rates calls for a scalable and flexible
standard and technology tool box that can:

Facilitate Aggregation 1. Utilize Massive MIMO Technology 3.

Of radio carriers/bands of different width Greatly increases LTE network capacity and
either licensed or unlicensed from 400MHz coverage
up to 80GHz mmWave
Operators want to support huge numbers of
Of various technologies such as LTE, users and IoT devices at once
LTE-A Pro, Wi-Fi 11ac/ax, WiGiG to provide
a seamless unified data pipe

Reduce Latency 2. Improve reliability and encryption 4.

Reduced LTE latency brings 8x better Enables mission critical usage such as
network responsiveness to V2X, VR, mobile Cellular V2X (C-V2X), eHealth and Industrial
gaming and mission critical emergency IoT

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The Advent of 5G
A unified protocol bringing together a massive number
of users with requirements as diverse as MTC and
eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband)
Supports new use cases that LTE could not support
such as VR, V2X, eHealth, Mission Critical Emergency
Compatible with previous generation LTE and LTE-A
Pro Network Infrastructure (Core and RAN)
Seamlessly aggregates very diverse frequency
bands from 400MHz to 80GHz and bandwidths
from 20 to 800 MHz using LTE, LTE-A Pro, 5G NR,
Wi-Fi 11ax/ad with a unified protocol

A wireless standard so advanced compared to previous generations that it needs a

new processing approach to ensure its success
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5G Computing Challenges

Significant computational Data symbol demodulation 256-QAM

complexity and higher
Massive MIMO Highly sensitive to phase noise especially when using
Much wider Bandwidth available (mmWave) mmWave
Higher throughput and reduced latencies
Much higher bitrates
MMSE equalization of huge Larger Bandwidth, Modulation and MIMO
dimensions combined with more efficient frame
matrices requiring very efficient
Supporting multiple Gigabit/sec for each Carrier/Band
matrix operations
Extremely tight latency target to meet overall latency budget Flexible platform is essential to
High precision to handle large support standardization evolution
matrix inversion Many 5G trial systems (Verizon 5GTF, NR)

Essential for Equalization and Beamforming calculation

3GPP specification is still far away

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The 5G DSP Solution - CEVA-XC12
The Worlds Most Advanced Communication
DSP for Multi-Gigabit Connectivity 8X
More DSP
Horsepower*

Designed specifically for the multi-gigabit communication standards

5G (400MHz to 80GHz), LTE-A Pro, LAA, LWA, Wi-Fi 11ax, WiGig, C-V2X
Dedicated Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) for Advanced multi-
gigabit Algorithms
50%
Lower Power
256x256 MIMO, 1024 QAM, 3-D Beamforming Consumption*

4.4 CoreMark/MHz for Multi-RAT control plane

Reaches 1.8GHz at 10nm 920
Ultra-low power consumption GOPs
Raw
50% reduction over CEVA-XC4500 Performance

*Compared to
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Architecture Highlights
New features to cover all 5G and LTE-A Pro baseband channels
Symbol Plane
128-MAC to improve 8x8, 16x16, 32x32 MMSE-IRC by a factor of 4x
20-bit Pseudo-FP to improve Massive-MIMO by 30dB
Non-Linear ISA with high-precision to achieve improvement of 30dB
Semi-Complex MAC operations are improved by a factor of 4x
FFT automatic scaling improves precision by 15dB and performance by 2-4x

Soft-Bit Processing
256-QAM Demodulation trigonometric ISA with improvement factor of 8x
New PRBS ISA to improve de-scrambling by a factor of 3x
De-Rate Matching is improved by a factor of 5x

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Architecture Block Diagram

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CEVA-XC12: Putting It All Together
128-MAC
Coremark/MHz: 4.4 20-bit Pseudo-FP
Efficient and compact C code High precision non-linear ISA
Dynamic Branch Prediction 2048-bit Memory Bandwidth
Quad SPU with FPU High-End High-End 256x256 Massive MIMO
Low Latency RTOS support 1024 QAM Demod. ISA
Mult-RAT & DSP XC4500 compatible VEC-C code
Multi-user Performance
PHY Control

5G, LTE-A Pro, LAA Multi-Gigabit SoC & Cache 2D & 3D DMA
Wi-Fi 11ax, LWA, VR Workloads Architecture Core to Core Streaming intercon.
Cloud RAN 4-way L1 I$ w. HW pre-fetch
Macro and Small Cell AXI & FIC burst support
Access Points QMAN/BMAN System Support

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contact info@ceva-dsp.com
or
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