This LTE UE Reference design is a Category NB UE. Using this Reference Design, OEMs and Silicon designers can develop modules and chip versions. LTE UE supports most of the significant & mandatory features specified by 3GPP Release 14 versions of Narrow band specifications.

RF Conformance:

• 3GPP 136 521-1 Test cases Compliance
• Inter working with Keysight & R&S Test & Measurement Equipment

Platform Mapping:

• Solution availability on Cadence Fusion F1 DSP, Synopsys ARC, ARM processor cores
• Digital Front End as RTL IP
• Integrated with PCS CAT-NB RF Transceiver
• Integrated with Sensor Application

         

• 3GPP Rel-14 Cat-NB UE Solution
• FDD Support
• Single Antenna Tx and Rx
• 200 KHz Bandwidth
• Standalone, In-band and Guard-Band modes of operation
• 15KHz and 3.75 KHz Subcarrier spacing support
• Single Tone and Multi Tone UL
• DL Repetition upto 2048 with all Gap Threshold configurations supported
• UL Repetition upto 128
• Paging with Repetition
• 2 HARQ in DL and UL
• Coverage level 0,1 and 2
• AGC Implemented in Firmware
• AFC support for higher ppm clock offsets and compensation in Firmware
• Differential Coherent Combining for Sync Channel Detection
• Coherent Combining for Repetition Mode
• Integrated with COTS RF & 3rd Party NB-IoT RF
• Interop with eNodeB and T&M equipment

Protocol Specific Features:

• CIoT Control plane and User plane optimization
• Power Saving Mode
• eDRX
• Multiple data bearers (0/1/2)
• Intra and Inter Frequency Cell Reselection
• NAS and AS security with Snow 3G algorithm