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Digital Digital Beamform Beamforming ing Linear Linear and and Planar Planar Array Array
Levente Dudás dudas@mht.bme.hu Péter Kovács kovacs.peter@mht.bme.hu Rudolf Seller seller@mht.bme.hu
Budapest University of Technology and Economics Department of Broadband Infocommunications and Electromagnetic Theory Broadband Infocommunications Group
SLIDE 2 Introduction Introduction
Flexible:
- main radiation direction,
- side lobe structure,
- null-point direction.
Applications:
- radar,
- cell-phone-networks,
- airplane and satellite tracking
SLIDE 3 Transmitter Antenna Array Transmitter Antenna Array
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4 C 4 Channel hannel RF Block RF Block for for X X – – band band
Frequency: 9..10 GHz PRFout = 2 W (33 dBm) Consumption: 250 W @ 8 V @ 32 W RF Size: 160x130x40 mm
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4 C 4 Channel hannel RF Block RF Block for for UMTS UMTS
Consumption: 40 W @ 12 V @ 3.2 W RF Size: 180x130x28 mm Frequency: 1.8..2 GHz PRFout = 0.2 W (23 dBm)
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Digital Control Unit Digital Control Unit
DC: 8..15 V @ 1.5..0.8 A Precision: 12 bits x 32
SLIDE 9 Calibration Calibration
Measure S21 versus amplitude, phase and frequency
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10 10 GHz GHz – – Linear Linear Array Array
SLIDE 12 10 10 GHz GHz – – Linear Linear Array Array
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10 10 GHz GHz – – Planar Planar Array Array
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2 2 GHz GHz – – Linear Linear Patch Patch Array Array
SLIDE 15 2 2 GHz GHz – – Linear Linear Patch Patch Array Array
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SLIDE 16 2 2 GHz GHz – – Linear Linear GP GP Array Array
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SLIDE 17 Conclusion Conclusion
Realized:
- 4 channel RF blocks
- controller software and hardware
- automated calibration process and databases
- radiation pattern measuring
Future:
- further in-situ antenna measuring
- integration with RDFS and ICS for mobile repeaters
SLIDE 18 Acknowledgement Acknowledgement
This work was supported by:
- Ministry of Defence – Agency of Technology
- Bonn Hungary Electronics
- Mobile Innovation Center
SLIDE 19 Thank you for your kind attention!
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