CEVA and Nokia Collaborate on 4.9G and 5G

1 March, 2018

"We have collaborated closely with CEVA on developing a custom version of the CEVA-XC for ReefShark, adopting new practices, methodologies and advanced process nodes"

Nokia ReefShark

CEVA from Herzliya, Israel , announced that it is supporting Nokia in the development of its ReefShark baseband System-on-Chips (SoCs), set to be deployed for 4.9G and 5G wireless infrastructure. Part of the cooperation involves adapting CEVA-XC architecture framework to address the massive increase in signal processing complexity in multi-RAT (Radio Access Technology) network architectures.

ReefShark is Nokia’s new chipsets based on 3GPP 5G New Radio specifications. It is comprised of Digital Front End for LTE and 5G radio systems supporting massive MIMO, RFIC front-end module and transceiver for massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna solution and a Baseband Processor for heavy computations and for the supporting of the massive scale requirements of 5G. Here the company embedded the DSP technology brought from CEVA.

Deployments in the third quarter

Earlier this year NOKIA said it is working with 30 operators using ReefShark and will ramp up field deployments during the third quarter of 2018. The ReefShark chipsets boosts the performance of massive MIMO antennas and baseband compute capacity through plug-in units fitted into the commercially available Nokia AirScale baseband module. AirScale is software-upgradeable to full 5G functionality, and these plug-in units triple the throughput from Nokia’s advanced 28 Gbps today, to up to 85 Gbps per module.

“We have collaborated closely with CEVA on developing a custom version of the CEVA-XC for ReefShark, adopting new practices, methodologies and advanced process nodes,” said Henri Tervonen, CTO and Head of R&D Foundation, Mobile Networks, Nokia. Issachar Ohana, Executive VP of Worldwide Sales at CEVA: “This collaboration expands our foothold as the end-to-end wireless DSP provider, covering base stations, terminals, cellular IoT and any other form of cellular enabled device.”

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