Applications
Wireless Communications
The landscape of wireless communication is swiftly transforming with the advent of 5G and emerging AI-driven technologies, paving the way for 6G and beyond. Today's wireless networks transcend conventional voice and data services, offering high-speed, minimal latency, and exceptional reliability.
Efinix FPGAs with low-latency, energy-efficient architecture support a variety of IP protocols and provide flexible, high-performance solutions for advanced wireless communication systems and supporting infrastructure, including wireless radios, X-haul, and telco accelerators.
Radios
Wireless radios find extensive use across multiple sectors, such as emergency services, aviation, broadcasting, telecommunications, and common consumer devices like smartphones and Wi-Fi routers.
Efinix FPGAs are high-performance, power-efficient and flexible. They can implement cutting-edge wireless technologies like massive MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output), beamforming, and mmWave operation, which are critical for small cell, pico cell and macro cell deployments in wireless radios systems.
X-haul
Wireless X-haul is a flexible, multi-segment transport solution that covers fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul. It meets the demanding standards of contemporary wireless systems, ensuring high throughput, low latency, and network densification, making it a cornerstone for accelerating wireless telecom evolution.
Efinix FPGAs empower the X-haul system by providing low latency, energy efficiency, compactness, and scalability that are crucial for the 5G networks of today and the innovations of tomorrow.
Telco Acceleration
With the rise of 5G requiring ultra-low latency, massive throughput, and edge deployment, virtualized network architectures such as O-RAN and vRAN are at the forefront of innovation. They foster competition and facilitate more agile, cost-effective 5G deployments.
Reconfigurable Efinix FPGAs with low latency play a key role in telco acceleration by offloading computationally intensive tasks from CPUs, supporting evolving 5G specifications, and improving performance and energy efficiency in vital areas of the network.
Wireline communications
Wireline communication continues to be an essential pillar of contemporary communication systems, despite the prevalence of wireless technologies. Fiber-optic and copper wireline networks serve as the backbone of the internet, facilitating a wide range of services from global data centers and cloud computing to enterprise networks and mobile network backhaul, including 5G.
Efinix FPGAs deliver unparalleled speed, flexibility, and energy efficiency in wireline communication applications, whether enhancing copper networks by mitigating noise and signal degradation or powering fiber-optic systems at incredible speeds.
Switches and Routers
Switches and routers are essential networking devices that manage data traffic over wired connections, enabling fast and secure communication within and between networks. They provide advanced features such as traffic management, enhanced security, and scalability to meet the demands of modern enterprises and data centers.
Efinix FPGAs with energy-efficient architectures support multiple high-speed I/O interfaces, such as Ethernet and PCIe, which are essential in network switches and routers.
Optical Transport
Wireline optical transport today is driven by high-capacity Optical Transport Network (OTN) and Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions; enabling efficient, scalable, and low-latency data transfer across metro and long-haul networks.
Efinix FPGAs play a critical role in wireline optical transport system, enabling flexible, high-performance implementation of key functions such as OTN framing, forward error correction (FEC), and high-speed protocol bridging (e.g., Ethernet to OTN).
Network Security
The landscape of network security has transformed dramatically, fueled by the increasing prevalence of cyber threats, the shift to remote work, the embrace of cloud technology, and the ongoing digital transformation.
In link security, Efinix FPGAs provide low-latency, high-throughput encryption at the link layer such as with MACsec; preventing interception, tampering, or eavesdropping on data as it traverses the physical or logical link.
In secure routing, Efinix FPGAs play a crucial role in accelerating packet inspection and enforcing routing policies in real time. This enables faster, hardware-based decision-making to detect and block malicious traffic before it enters the network.
Efinix FPGAs accelerate Virtual Private Network (VPN) performance by efficiently offloading cryptographic operations, delivering significantly higher throughput and lower latency.
