AN 908: Enabling 4G Wireless Acceleration in FlexRAN: for the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000

Download PDF
ID 683736
Date 1/30/2020
Public
Document Table of Contents
Document Table of Contents x
1. About the 4G Wireless Acceleration Reference Design 2. 4G User Image Description 3. Document Revision History for AN 908: Enabling 4G Wireless Acceleration in FlexRAN for the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000
1. About the 4G Wireless Acceleration Reference Design x
1.1. 4G User Image Features 1.2. About the Intel PAC N3000
1.2. About the Intel PAC N3000 x
1.2.1. Factory Image for 2x2x25 GbE
2. 4G User Image Description x
2.1. User Image Power Management 2.2. 4G Channel Coder 2.3. Fronthaul IO 2.4. User Image Software
2.2. 4G Channel Coder x
2.2.1. 4G Channel Coder Throughput 2.2.2. 4G Turbo-V Encoder and Decoder Tests 2.2.3. 4G VRAN Universal Verification Methodology
2.3. Fronthaul IO x
2.3.1. O-RAN Compression and Decompression
1. About the 4G Wireless Acceleration Reference Design
2. 4G User Image Description
3. Document Revision History for AN 908: Enabling 4G Wireless Acceleration in FlexRAN for the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000

1.1. 4G User Image Features

FEC features:

  • Functionality independent of 25G I/O (look-aside model)
  • Support for one physical function (PF) and 8 virtual functions (VFs) simultaneously accessing acceleration
  • 64 queues supported equally split between uplink and downlink.
  • Long-term evolution (LTE) Turbo encoding with interleaving and rate matching
  • LTE Turbo decoding with sub-block de-interleaving of reverse rate matching.
  • Load balancer distributes the pending requests to transmitter and receiver
  • Early termination CRC24A and CRC24B
  • Software enablement by baseband device (bbdev) API (targeted to upstream to Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
  • Function-level reset

Fronthaul IO features:

  • 25G MAC and 25G PHY IP connectivity to retimer and a quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP).
  • 40G MAC and 40G PHY IP connectivity to Fortville networking device
  • Gearbox to enable 25G connectivity to QSFP.
  • In-line compression and decompression.
  • Software enablement by Open Platform Acceleration Environment (OPAE), DPDK and bbdev.
Level Two Title