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5G teams need FPGAs for massive MIMO research

David Hawke highlights the role programmable hardware is making in research and development of technologies such as massive MIMO for the 5G mobile communications radio access network.

By Richard Wilson - Electronics Weekly, Oct. 27, 2015 – 

The goals for the so-called radio access network (RAN) for 5G mobile are lofty indeed and have been discussed at length by industry experts. What has received far less airtime is, "What exactly is the best path to 5G?"

This article lays out some of the challenges of the 5G RAN and ways in which ideas can be implemented in hardware, both for prototyping, which needs to happen over the next three years, and ultimately for production deployment, which is slated to commence in 2020.

The goal of 5G is to provide a 1000x increase in capacity, supporting more than 100 billion connections with data rates to 10Gbit/s and less than 1msec latency.

However, these new networks will not just support the fastest links and fattest data pipes; they also aim to improve upon the capabilities of current networks. For example, today's wireless networks lack support for the low data rates and long battery life required for M2M (machine-to-machine) and sensor-type technologies.


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