《LTE Reference Vector--agilent》.pdf

Agilent LTE Reference Vector White Paper Introduction The third-generation Universal Mobile Wireless developers are under The breadth and flexibility of these Telecommunications System (UMTS), increasingly demanding schedules new emerging wireless standards based on Wideband Code-Division to develop products before wireless such as LTE and Mobile WiMAX pres- Multiple Access (W-CDMA), has been standards finalize to meet product ent significant challenges for FPGA deployed all over the world. To ensure shipment schedules. This introduces design. For example, LTE supports a that this system remains competitive product development risks to the number of modulation types (QPSK, in the future, the 3rd Generation baseband coding/decoding physical- 16QAM, 64QAM) with many different Partnership Project (3GPP) began layer design. configurations in the transport block a project in November 2004 to size, Resource Block (RB) alloca- define the long-term evolution of The physical-layer baseband design tion, different CRC lengths/types, UMTS cellular technology. The cycle often progresses in parallel etc. Traditional FPGA development specifications related to this effort with a wireless standard which is methodologies of writing/creating are formally known as the Evolved still rapidly evolving. Thus, algorithm independent test vector references UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E- definition is subject to the developer’s (in addition to writing the actual HDL UTRA) and Evolved UMTS T