Development of the simulation of the 5G New Radio Uplink Channels for testing the layer one of a 5G New Radio modem chip
Bernardi, Filippo (2018-12-12)
Development of the simulation of the 5G New Radio Uplink Channels for testing the layer one of a 5G New Radio modem chip
(12.12.2018)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201901313738
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The 5G technology is a step forward in the telecommunication industry, and it will
provide improvements and new features to the current 4G standard such as higher speed
in data transmissions, energy efficiency, massive Multiple Input Multiple Output and
performance adaptation to different devices.
Because of the 5G disruptive nature, MediaTek wants to give this technology to its
customers and it intends to do so by developing a 5G New Radio modem. The main
challenge of developing a 5G New Radio modem is that it must be based on the Third
Generation Partnership Project specifications that are written while the modem chip is
developed. As a result, the development of a 5G modem must be fast to quickly adapt
to new Third Generation Partnership Project features while coping with competition.
Nonetheless, because of the short developing time available for developing the 5G New
Radio modem chip, the debugging has to be done during the development phase and it
has to be time efficient to quickly give feedback to the development of the 5G New Radio
modem chip.
This thesis describes the 5G New Radio Uplink Channels simulation that has been
developed to test the software of the modem chip, to test the interface between the hardware
and the software and finally to check the correct behavior of the hardware. The
simulation has then been tested in a pure software environment and in a Register-Transfer
Level environment. The Register-Transfer Level simulation is much slower than the
pure software simulation. To speed up the debugging of the software, and quickly give
feedback to the development of the 5G New Radio modem chip, in the pure software
environment a register − check function was implemented. The register − check
function can detect the modem registers mismatches and in turn detects the software
bugs in the software environment before running the Register-Transfer Level simulation.
This strategy has been proven to be successful because it has identified almost all the
software bugs before running the Register-Transfer Level simulation, saving time during
the software debugging phase.
provide improvements and new features to the current 4G standard such as higher speed
in data transmissions, energy efficiency, massive Multiple Input Multiple Output and
performance adaptation to different devices.
Because of the 5G disruptive nature, MediaTek wants to give this technology to its
customers and it intends to do so by developing a 5G New Radio modem. The main
challenge of developing a 5G New Radio modem is that it must be based on the Third
Generation Partnership Project specifications that are written while the modem chip is
developed. As a result, the development of a 5G modem must be fast to quickly adapt
to new Third Generation Partnership Project features while coping with competition.
Nonetheless, because of the short developing time available for developing the 5G New
Radio modem chip, the debugging has to be done during the development phase and it
has to be time efficient to quickly give feedback to the development of the 5G New Radio
modem chip.
This thesis describes the 5G New Radio Uplink Channels simulation that has been
developed to test the software of the modem chip, to test the interface between the hardware
and the software and finally to check the correct behavior of the hardware. The
simulation has then been tested in a pure software environment and in a Register-Transfer
Level environment. The Register-Transfer Level simulation is much slower than the
pure software simulation. To speed up the debugging of the software, and quickly give
feedback to the development of the 5G New Radio modem chip, in the pure software
environment a register − check function was implemented. The register − check
function can detect the modem registers mismatches and in turn detects the software
bugs in the software environment before running the Register-Transfer Level simulation.
This strategy has been proven to be successful because it has identified almost all the
software bugs before running the Register-Transfer Level simulation, saving time during
the software debugging phase.