Overview

Communication base station is the equipment that provides signal coverage and transmission services for mobile communications. It is an important part of the mobile communication network and realizes wireless mobile communications by transmitting and receiving wireless signals. Communication base stations include indoor base stations, outdoor base stations, micro base stations, macro base stations and other types, which are used to meet the needs of various deployment scenarios and achieve coverage everywhere. Over the past 30 years, communication base stations have gone through stages such as analog, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G  and  brought voice, text, images and video experience for end-users. From connecting people to connecting everything, the CT infrastructure continues to change people's living ways. With the development of 5.5G and 6G technologies, communication base stations are continuously improved and empowering the digital transformation of the entire society.

Background

With the large-scale deployment of communication base stations, the demand for radio frequency (RF) devices and power equipment continues to grow. RF devices play the role of converting digital signals into electromagnetic wave signals in the process of transmitting signals, and converting the received electromagnetic wave signals into binary digital signals in the process of receiving signals. The RF part in base stations consists of an antenna feed system and a RF front-end module. The antenna system is divided into antennas and feeders, and the RF front-end module is divided into power amplifiers, filters, low-noise amplifiers, RF switches, combiners, connectors and other RF components. A large number of filters are deployed on the base station equipment to avoid frequency and noise interference. Connectors are a key part of connecting 5G infrastructure, which serve as an important hub between transmission data cables and devices. High-speed data transmission needs to consider the impact of connectors in terms of performance, size and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. In addition, the power supply equipment converts mains power, gas power and solar power into power supply available for each module of the base station. It is very important and urgent for the design of AC/DC conversion power devices and transmission network to improve energy utilization efficiency.

Solution

For the research and development of RF chips, RF devices, cables and power equipment for communication base stations, Xpeedic provides the complete EDA solution to accelerate product optimization. With the help of the EDA design simulation platform, the system performance of base stations could be analyzed and improved in order to enhance signal coverage, data capacity and uplink & downlink transmission rates for connecting more people and things.