Xilinx and NEC Corporation are collaborating to work on NEC’s new 5G Radio Units (RUs). The 5G RUs will be available for global deployment in 2022 and will use Xilinx’s 7nm Versal AI Core series devices which will enable advanced signal processing for massive MIMO beamforming with O-RAN interfaces.
O-RAN interfaces enable open and flexible 5G RAN deployments, in addition to allowing broader interoperability with products from different vendors.
Liam Madden, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Wired and Wireless Group at Xilinx, said, “NEC’s new massive MIMO radios using Xilinx’s commercially-proven beamforming capabilities will enable an improved wireless end-user experience as use cases continue to grow and evolve in the future.”
Kenichi Ito, General Manager, 1st Wireless Access Solutions Division at NEC, said, “In the highly competitive 5G base station market, the integration of Xilinx technology within NEC RUs will provide valuable advantages to our customers, who demand highly-capable and feature-rich RUs that deliver the performance needed to scale for nearly any application.”
