Hardware Acceleration

Moving the heaviest PHY work off the CPU, onto GPUs and dedicated accelerators.

3 parts·Apr 2026 - Jun 2026

1. 1Apr 26, 2026Offloading LDPC in PDSCH & PUSCH to Hardware AcceleratorsA BBDEV-based execution path for hardware-accelerated LDPC lands in OCUDU's upper-PHY, with a first reference backend on Intel ACC100 and a HAL designed to extend cleanly to next-generation ...BlogVideo
2. 2May 2, 2026Hardware-Accelerated PRACH Detection: CUDA-Graph GPU OffloadA second hardware-acceleration path lands in OCUDU's upper-PHY: PRACH detection captured as a single CUDA graph on an NVIDIA GPU, with the IDFT running device-side via cuFFTDx. Two accelerat...BlogVideo
3. 3Jun 23, 2026Building the AI-RAN Data Path in OCUDU: Inline GPU Processing for PRACH and SRSNVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA delivers fronthaul packets directly into GPU memory — no host copies, no PCIe bottleneck. PRACH detection latency drops by 70%, and SRS channel estimation achieves more...BlogVideo