Introduction to RF Link Budgeting
This presentation is an introductory-level tutorial, which provides a useful introduction to RF link budgeting, including examples of how to calculate path losses, transmit/receive power, receive noise, SNR and throughput.
How LTE Can Deliver In-flight Broadband
This article discusses how LTE private networks can provide in-flight broadband, with economies of scale that can keep costs low.
MicroTCA Ruggedisation for Military Comms
This article discusses the experiences of CommAgility’s engineers when modifying an existing air-cooled AMC design for a rugged application for a military communications project.
CommAgility Research: Pathways to the Future
This article explores CommAgility's participation in two research projects, COHERENT and InVerSiv, which are working on new developments in 5G networks and autonomous vehicles.
5G New Radio Architecture and Challenges
This paper explores the aims, solutions and technical challenges of 5G New Radio (NR), one of the key enabling technologies for 5G.
MicroTCA Architectures for In-Building Wireless Networks
How MicroTCA solutions can provide private networks to improve in-building wireless coverage.
Server Based Solutions for Self-Organizing Networks
The ideas and initiatives driving self-organizing networks (SONs), a key enabler for effective 5G deployment (joint article with Artesyn).
Modular, Open Standards Based Software Defined Radio Solutions
SDR for defence/EW applications (joint article with Concurrent Technologies).
LTE Release 10 Small Cell Physical Layer Evolution
Issues and challenges facing small cell product developers in multi-core environments.
LTE Applications and OpenVPX
How COTS-based LTE wireless systems and the OpenVPX standard can find a role in defense communications applications.
How can wireless OEMs outsource to improve competitiveness?
Reviews the issues involved in outsourcing for wireless OEMs, including how it can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while also cutting risk and time to market.
AMC and MicroTCA as high-performance FPGA platforms
Discussion of the AMC and MicroTCA standards, and how they can provide a suitable platform for today's high performance FPGAs. It uses two CommAgility modules as examples to show how Xilinx Virtex-6 and Virtex-7 devices can be linked to fast and flexible I/O.
CommAgility AMC-RF2x2 Uses Xilinx® Virtex®-6 to Support LTE 2x2 MIMO
How CommAgility has used the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA in its AMC-RF2x2 card to provide a flexible LTE RF interface module, the AMC-RF2x2. The article discusses baseband data path and clock synchronization, the radio interface, and control and management of the on-card devices.
Floating point multiprocessing with C66x DSPs from Texas Instruments
Analysis of TI's latest C66x DSPs, and how they can be used in high-performance multiprocessing systems (including a section on VPX).