Agilent Technologies' New 3GPP LTE Baseband Exploration Library Enables Throughput Verification for Algorithm, Hardware Developers

Enabling IP Access for 3GPP LTE PHY Design

Agilent's W1912 simulation library unlocks algorithmic-level source code in C++ and provides working link-level reference designs with test benches based on version 8.6 of the 3GPP LTE TS36-101, 104 standards, including HARQ support. The source code allows engineers to investigate algorithms inside a working LTE baseband PHY, setting breakpoints and saving time by creating critical test vectors and verification suites. Since the W1912 library interoperates with Agilent's measurement sources (e.g., the N5106A PXB and N5182 MXG), receivers (e.g., the N9020A MXA) and software (e.g., the 89600 VSA), baseband architects can now quickly harden real-world algorithms in emerging areas of FDD LTE, TD-LTE and MIMO. A simulation-only version of the library (W1910) is also available.

Access to LTE source code is of critical importance in creating the early test solutions hardware developers require to develop high-quality, market-leading LTE user equipment devices and chipsets, said Niels Fach�, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Mobile Broadband Operation. Using SystemVue, along with the new LTE model library, for example, we were able to successfully shave three months off the development of a baseband signal-processing implementation for our new E6620A LTE one box tester. With savings like this, SystemVue 2009 and its new LTE library are quickly becoming an indispensable tool for today's 3GPP LTE baseband algorithm and hardware developers.