Sierra

One platform for all 5G RU applications

Sierra is a highly-integrated single-chip 4G / 5G open radio solution

One platform that powers all radio applications from small cells to massive MIMO arrays. The combined hardware and software solution provides RU designers with a flexible system building block.


Let Sierra help you design RUs with:

  • High performance
  • Low latency
  • Low power consumption
  • Short time-to-market

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Sierra integrates 5 sub-systems into a single chip


providing a complete software-programmable radio signal processing engine for O-RAN radio units

Sierra Integrates Five Sub-Systems


  1. RF Transceiver supporting up to 8 transmitters
  2. Digital Front End (DFE) including DPD, crest factor reduction (CFR), and Passive Intermodulation (PIM) cancellation
  3. Low-PHY baseband processor supporting 5G, 4G, and NB-IoT air interfaces
  4. O-RAN Alliance Split 7.2x fronthaul interface
  5. ARM® Cortex-A53 quad-core CPU Sub-System



New O-RAN Compliant Single-Chip Radio Solution


Sierra's complete system integration yields a feature rich, high-performance RU building block that reduces the need for multiple FPGAs/ASICs and simplifies new O-RAN development. 


Let Sierra help you design:

  • Macro and picocell O-RUs using just a single Sierra device and an appropriate RF front end
  • Massive MIMO O-RU by tiling an array of Sierra devices and connecting them to a central beamforming solution

Sierra Single-Chip Radio

Sierra integrates MaxLIN


The industry's most powerful DPD / CFR technology

Without MaxLIN

Performance without MaxLIN

With MaxLIN

Performance with MaxLIN

Sierra is one solution for all 5G radio applications