Xilinx Korea (Branch Manager Ahn Heung-sik) July 22, 2013 – Xilinx announced that the Zynq®-7030 All Programmable SoC from its Zynq-7000 product family has been adopted as a key device in Mobilicom's new MCU-30 SDR (software-defined radio). Mobilicom's MCU-30 SDR is a very compact, flexible, and lightweight battery-powered wireless radio utilized in diverse products ranging from security cameras to public safety, providing broadband connectivity for disaster rescue, surveillance, defense, and other mission-critical applications. Supporting MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) antenna diversity, the MCU-30 SDR offers improved multipath performance, multiple operating frequency bands, on-the-move communication, and multi-hop functionality for extended communication range, enabling seamless communication anywhere without commercial wireless infrastructure.

Yossi Segal, Vice President of Research and Development at Mobilicom, stated, "Xilinx's Zynq-7030 All Programmable SoC, which excellently combines DSP functionality, ARM processor-based performance, and reprogrammable logic, plays a key role in Mobilicom's new MCU-30 SDR. The Zynq-7030 not only fulfills the programmable system integration requirements of the MCU-30 SDR, but also accelerates development time and achieves lower bill-of-materials (BOM) costs compared to multi-chip ASIC or ASSP designs." He added, "The very low power requirements of the Zynq-7030 All Programmable SoC enable us to maximize battery life, which is critical in public safety and other mobile applications."

By adopting the Zynq-7030 All Programmable SoC as the core of the MCU-30 SDR platform, Mobilicom's design engineers were able to develop customized advanced wireless networking protocols without incurring the substantial costs and risks associated with custom ASIC development. Based on the ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system and programmable logic of the Zynq-7030 All Programmable SoC tightly coupled on a single die, Mobilicom's design team developed a robust and highly adaptive ad-hoc wireless networking protocol solution using LTE PHY and customized MAC, Layer 2 software.

Yousef Khalilollahi, Senior Director of Business Development at Xilinx, stated, "This achievement in collaboration with Mobilicom is another example demonstrating the excellent suitability of the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC in public safety wireless applications." He added, "The Zynq-7000 product family, which integrates processors, DSP, and reprogrammable logic into a low-power, compact single device, provides performance highly suited to the design requirements of public safety wireless systems."

For more details on Xilinx's Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, visit http://www.xilinx.com/zynq.

Availability
The MCU-30 is available globally through authorized distributors. Mobilicom's product offering includes the MCU-100, a flagship product providing instant ad-hoc/mesh communication for mobile networks as part of the 4G wireless communication unit, along with the MC-HPA High Power Amplifier, MC-EMA component management application, and MC-NMA network management application tools.