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The UC6000 is Ultichip’s advanced 5G/4G small cell SoC platform, including UC6040 for femto cell, UC6060 for integrated cell, and UC6080 for distributed cell. The SoC platform integrates DFE, DPD, Vector processors, and ASIP accelerator modules for baseband PHY, bit and soft bit processing ASIP for NR/LTE, ARM A73 for full protocol stack, and network processors for fronthaul as well as backhaul. It enables a range of applications, from micro and pico to femto cells, serving diverse needs such as hotspot coverage, in-building and wide area coverage. We offer reference designs based on UC6000 series.
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• 8 ARM A73 processors up to 2.2GHz Frequency for full RAN protocol stack processing.
• 64bits DDR4 SDRAM, 3200MHz.
• Hardware encryption and decryption.
• 8 Vector DSP processors and ASIP including FFT, MMSE, LDPC, POLAR, and bit processors for physical layer processes.
• 8-lane JESD204B/C interface connecting RF/ADC/ DAC transceivers. Lane rate up to 25Gbps.
• 6-channel DFE up to 6T6R Antennas.
• 25Gbps optical port with CPRI & eCPRI processor for fronthaul interface.
• Two 25Gbps and One 1Gbe ethernet ports for backhaul interface.
• PCIe4 can be used for integrating multi UC6000 chips and used as interface of BU PCIe cards.
• The network processor accelerate the packet parser and flow classifi cation with DPDK API.
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The UC6040 SoC is a cost-optimized version of the UC6000 platform for home cell applications. It encompasses all functionalities from antenna to baseband and protocol processing. Typical application scenarios are home base station to enhance 5G & 4G real-time communication and connection security. The SoC interfaces to the transceiver through the JESD204B/C interface. Additionally the SOC includes an integrated PLL for transceivers, eliminating external PLL cost.
|Application 1 - Femto Cell SoC- UC6040
|Application 2 - Integrated Cell SoC- UC6060
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The UC6060 SoC is a high-performance version of the UC6000 platform, which optimized for integrated cells. It suits to base station of more active users and higher antenna output power. The integrated cell SoC UC6060 supports the 5G and 4G dual-mode. It encompasses all functionalities from antenna to baseband processing. UC6060 owns stronger protocol stack processing ability and up to 25Gbps backhaul interface attributed to 8 ARM cores. UC6060 is mainly used to supplement coverage blind spots, construct private network and enhance coverage hotspots, such as supermarkets, stadiums, ports, etc.
|Application 3 - Distributed Pico Cell SoC- UC6080
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The UC6080 SoC is a scalable and pluggable version of the UC6000 platform for distributed Pico cells. It consists of all functionalities from antenna to baseband processing. The 25Gbps CPRI/eCPRI processor enables RRU from multi-vendors according to O-RAN fronthaul specifications and vendor specific requirements. Especially, the UC6080 can directly connect to UC1046 based RRU. Multiple UC6080s could be organized by the host processor through PCIe to increase sector number and capacity in a cell.