Element CXI introduced their nGEN Elemental Computing array for multi-mode, multi-band, multi-functional 4G wireless applications.
“The nGEN ECA is the first truly dynamically reconfigurable solution capable of providing a single platform for applications ranging from 4G mobile handsets to macro-basestations,” said John Watson, Founder and Vice President of Marketing at Element CXI. “Until now designers had to choose between power-hungry FPGAs with limited flexibility and DSP-based SOCs with even less flexibility. The nGEN platform not only offers greater flexibility than competing technologies, it also consumes less power and
costs a fraction of the price.”
Built around the second-generation of Element CXI’s massively parallel, multi-threaded ECA architecture, the nGEN platform is designed to handle the order of magnitude increase in computational intensity of 4G applications. The inherent efficiency of the architecture provides accelerated, high-data rate, low latency processing—at power consumption levels that rival fixed-function ASICs.
The nGEN ECAs are available as a standard product or a licensable core. Element CXI is also offering an nGEN Transmit Processing reference design, which combines digital up conversion (DUC), crest factor reduction, (CFR), and digital pre-distortion (DPD) wideband front-end processing functions.
