Keysight Technologies has introduced its EDA W1906EP 5G Baseband Verification Library. This advanced software library dramatically increases productivity for system architects and baseband physical layer (PHY) designers by providing a trusted al­gorithmic-reference and signal processing intellectual property (IP) for 5G technology research. The library supports several multi-antenna system architectures, including digital RF and hybrid beamforming, as well as advanced high-order multiple-input, multiple-output signal processing. The library comprises signal processing building blocks, subsystems, reference multi-antenna system modelling examples and infrastructure components. It also allows system architects to execute realistic technical research and easily migrate from one 5G communication system design concept to another.

The 5G Reference Library is essential for an integrated cross-domain and model-based approach to simulation. A modified 3GPP channel model and an integrated early millimetre-wave custom channel model, for example, help designers evaluate system performance in realistic channel environments and make realistic proposals for the new 5G standards.

Keysight’s updated 5G Baseband Verification Library is used with the Keysight EDA SystemVue electronic system level simulation platform for 5G PHY standard development. SystemVue’s integrated simulation environment, the W1465 SystemVue Sys­tem Architect, is used to develop innovative designs for research and development. The integrated simulation environment allows users to investigate, implement and verify their communications PHY signal processing designs with dynamic link-level scenarios. Adding the latest 5G Baseband Verification Library to the mix provides the following:

  • Multi-antenna system architectures including baseband, RF and hybrid beamforming structures.
  • Modified 3GPP 3D channel model, supporting millimetre-wave channel characteristics.
  • Advanced baseband IP references for Tx/Rx in several 5G candidate waveform technologies, such as UF-OFDM, F-OFDM and FBMC.
  • Multichannel RF behavioural model with parallel processing.
  • 3D visualisation to identify and address problem areas that improve system performance at an early stage of design.