Field Programmable RF

Enabling Personal Broadband™ The FPRF Company – Ultra flexible RF solutions Confidential

Field Programmable RF

a New Class of Integrated Transceivers for

the Wireless Communication Market

Enabling Personal Broadband™ 2 The FPRF Company – Ultra flexible RF solutions Confidential

1. Introduction

2. Markets and Business model

3. Field Programmable RF, FPRF (Transceiver technology)

4. FPRF support model

5. Example Designs

6. Future prospects

7. Summary

Table of Contents


1. Introduction


Privately-held, fabless semiconductor company founded in 2005

Headquartered in Guildford, U.K.

Lime focuses on the development of high performance, single-

chip field-programmable RF (“FPRF”) transceivers for Software

defined universal wireless communication hardware.

One solution for any frequency and standard (from 2G to 4G)

Successfully developed two generations of FPRF transceivers

Approximately 250 customers have adopted Lime worldwide

Lime at a Glance

RF Product of the Year

Finalist

2013 NMI

Semi360 Award

Winner

Lime Microsystems Headquarters


Provide best in class high performance RF ICs and drive

adoption of field-programmable RF transceivers

New levels of integration

Set the standard for cost-effectiveness

Support Open Source

Change the RF landscape

Strategic Objective


Altera Corporation becomes an investor

Announced 16th June 2014

Co-operate to produce innovative solutions

Fully support open-source initiative

STOP PRESS


2. Markets and Business model


Mirroring the FPGA model in RF domain

Other markets served by

FGPA /DSP/ASICs

M2M

Military

Wireless infrastructure


Lime’s FPRF transceivers …

Enable deployments of truly global

communication systems

Accelerate product development and

shorten time-to-market

Reduce system cost with single chip

transceivers

Lime RF is being used today to …

Set up wireless networks

any kind

anywhere

Bring mobile wireless broadband to

the developing world

at a fraction of the cost

Track assets using M2M

by satellite

any other available links

Broad Applicability of Lime’s FPRF

Small Cells Software

Defined Radio

RHH and

Broadband

Wireless

WiFi in

White Space

Cognitive

Radio

UAV Machine to

Machine

Cellular

Backhaul

Example Lime Applications

Test

Equipment


Sales Channels

Distributors

Taiwan Korea Japan

Global Global US Reps


3. Field Programmable RF

(Transceiver technology)


FPRF LMS6002D – Currently Shipping

Market proven solution into

numerous applications

Basis for the Lime’s MyriadRF

Open Source reference boards

Flexible in frequency range and bandwidth

Highly configurable with numerous

bypass options

Very high level of integration,

including ADC and DACs

Covering all the current and future standards

http://www.myriadrf.org/


SiGe LMS6002D –Shipping since 2010

Key specifications:

Frequency range:

300MHz-3.8GHz

28MHz RF bandwidth (can be

extended to 50MHZ)

Power consumption:

1W typical (1.5W max),

Power down feature to further

reduce power consumption

Package:

9x9mm 120-pin aQFN

Frequency 300MHz – 3.8GHz


bypass options


including dual 12-bit ADC and DAC


CMOS LMS7002M – Sampling Q3 2014

Lowest cost and lowest power

Low power process: 65nm CMOS

− MIMO mode: 800mW

− SISO mode: 550mW

Minimum of external components

Simple set-up and calibration

Package: 11.5x11.5mm 261-pin aQFN

Extended frequency range Frequency range: 50MHz-3.8GHz

Programmable on-the-fly

− RF bandwidths from 0.1MHz to 108MHz

− Gain

− Frequency

RX BB

TX BB

LPF

TX BB

LPF

LNA

LNA

LNA

RXAIN1

RXAIN2

RXAIN3

LNA

LNA

LNA

RXAIN1

RXAIN2

RXAIN3

RX LO

Chain

RX

Synthesizer

RXMIX

RXMIX

RXVGA1

RXVGA1

TX BB

LPF

TX BB

LPF

TX LO

Chain

TX

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PAD

PAD

RXLPF

RXLPF

TXLPF

TXLPF

ADC

ADC

ADC

ADC

DAC

DAC

DAC

DAC

PAD

PAD

Power

Det.

Power

Det.

Power

Det.

Power

Det.

RX BB

Power

Det.

Power

Det.

Power

Det.

Power

Det.

LNA

Output

LNA

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LNA

Output

LNA

Output

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CMOS LMS7002M – Sampling Q3 2014

Higher integration gives enhanced

performance 2x2 MIMO on a single-chip

High-performance ADC/DACs − bandwidth and sampling rates (160/640 Msps)

Transceiver signal processor and clock PLL for

flexible clock generation

Integrated MCU enables easier − calibration

− tuning

− control

Greater design flexibility Multiple bypass modes give option to use

off-chip blocks

Integrated Limelight digital IQ interfaces − JEDEC standard

Open source portal

RX BB

TX BB

LPF

TX BB

LPF

LNA

LNA

LNA

RXAIN1

RXAIN2

RXAIN3

LNA

LNA

LNA

RXAIN1

RXAIN2

RXAIN3

RX LO

Chain

RX

Synthesizer

RXMIX

RXMIX

RXVGA1

RXVGA1

TX BB

LPF

TX BB

LPF

TX LO

Chain

TX

Synthesizer

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PAD

RXLPF

RXLPF

TXLPF

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ADC

ADC

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DAC

DAC

DAC

DAC

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Power

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Power

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Power

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Power

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Power

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Power

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LNA

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Reduced distortion Enhanced filtering

Digital frequency shift


4. FPRF support model


MyriadRF – a low cost universal radio platform, based on LMS6002D FPRF

transceiver (http://myriadrf.org/)

It enables developers to implement their products for a wide variety of

wireless communication systems by having:

• A ready-made design and implementation to accelerate development time.

• A wide community support through the Open Source database.

• Boards

• Projects

• Software

• Forum

MyriadRF Board (LMS6002D)

Community support

Purchase through DigiKey

http://myriadrf.org/

http://myriadrf.org/

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/rf-if-and-rfid/rf-evaluation-and-development-kits-boards/3539644?k=LMS6002D


The MyriadRF can be used as a standalone board or in conjunction with

a wide variety of interface boards to baseband chip sets, FPGA’s and

DSP’s

Digital interface board connecting the standard FX10A-80P Myriad

boards to FPGA design kits through HSMC and FMC

MyriadRF Board – Development Platform

Community support

Purchase through DigiKey

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/rf-if-and-rfid/rf-accessories/3539661?k=LMS6002D


FPRF Open source platforms

Field programmable RF reference

designs

Low cost universal radio platform

Can be interfaced to FPGA, ASIC,

DSP and GPP baseband solutions


Support on www.myriadrf.org

Full documentation and design files are available:

LMS6002Dr2 Datasheet

LMS6002Dr2-Programming and Calibration Guide-1.1r1

Frequently Asked Questions

Transceiver control GUI

http://www.myriadrf.org/

http://www.limemicro.com/download/LMS6002Dr2-DataSheet-1.2r0.pdf

http://www.limemicro.com/download/LMS6002Dr2-Programming_and_Calibration_Guide-1.1r1.pdf





http://www.limemicro.com/download/FAQ_v1.0r10.pdf

https://github.com/myriadrf/myriadrf-utils


5. Example designs


Select Lime Customers and Applications

Professional-grade

Open Source Base Station

Asset Tracking and

Fleet Logistics Tactical Radios

LTE Residential Small Cell

Base Station

Enterprise

Femtocell

Test, Industrial, M2M Military, Whitespace, SDR

Small Cells / Communication Infrastructure

Consumer

Femtocell


LTE ExpressMIMO2: Open Air Interface

Lime MicroSystems LMS6002 RF front-ends

Integrated multi-band RF (300MHz – 3.8 GHz) and 12-bit A/D, D/A

Memory-mapped DMA transfers on a PCI Express link

triggers transfers of signals to/from PC memory

General-purpose CPUs (e.g. x86) for front-end and channel decoding

Agilent China used ExpressMIMO2 as a base station and set up a connection with

commercial UE (Huawei E392U-12, FDD / TDD mode) for industrial applications / deployment

http://www.openairinterface.org/


Product line

Fairwaves

rack-mounted version

tower-mounted versions

UmSITE-ID UmSITE-TM5 UmSITE-TM10 UmSITE-RM

indoor version

TRX 1 TRX 2 TRX with diversity

receive

2 TRX with diversity

receive

2, 4 or 6 TRX with

diversity receive

Voice

Channels 7-14 voice

channels

(full rate/half

rate)

15-30 voice

channels

(full rate/half rate)

15-30 voice

channels


45-90 voice channels


Power 200 mW 2 x 5W 2 x 10W 100mW to 10W per

sector


2 year experimental concession for GSM

Spectrum usage 4 MHz in GSM-850 band

Trials in Oaxaca state, Mexico

Profitable business with ARPU < 3 USD

Fairwaves, Mexico deployment

Oaxaca,

Mexico


Provides all of the functions of the 2.5G and 4G core networks

Compatible with both the SS7 network and Diameter+SIP (4G) network.

2.5 and 4G: SS7, YateBTS


Affordable cellular service to developing regions

Focus on Nicaragua

Caribbean Coast

Indigenous regions with limited access to communication technologies

Smaller population than the rest of the country (380k in RAAS, 87k in Bluefields)

SS7, YateBTS BluComm deployment


6. Future prospects


MyriadRF Board with SONY PA (coming soon)

MyriadRF version 2 – Broadband PA and external LNA


Altera based demo platform Block Diagram Stream board

EN2392-12V DC-DC step-down converter 9A




Agilent equipment interface

Reference to Agilent document “Agilent 16800 Series Portable Logic Analyzers

” [link]

http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5989-5063EN.pdf


7. Summary


Most flexible FPRF capable of addressing all mainstream wireless standards and

frequencies

OEMs are able to utilize an identical RF BOM regardless of communication

standard, lowering overall network system costs and accelerating time to market

Users able to quickly integrate transceiver solutions despite having minimal RF

expertise

Large market opportunities in small cells, M2M and military communications

currently exist for a configurable, low power and low cost transceiver

Open source brings unlimited potential applications to the wireless market

FPRF Transceiver Technology alongside FPGA

Summary


Thank You!

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