POWER CONTROL TO A BEAM STEERING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA IN SATELLITE APPLICATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220182108A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17678005

    申请日:2022-02-22

    发明人: Jun FANG

    摘要: Examples disclosed herein relate to a communication system including a transceiver module, a rearrangeable switch network coupled to the transceiver module, a power distribution network coupled to the rearrangeable switch network, and a plurality of Beam Steering Phase Array (“BSPA”) antennas, each coupled to the power distribution network and dynamically controllable to generate beams according to a power regulation requirement for a set of sat/lies.

    Vector modulator for millimeter wave applications

    公开(公告)号:US11336237B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US16575207

    申请日:2019-09-18

    发明人: Asmita Dani

    摘要: Examples disclosed herein relate to a vector modulator architecture, having an input splitter network configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal and generate a plurality of quadrature signals at different phases, a variable gain amplifier (VGA) stage coupled to the input splitter network and configured to apply a first gain to one or more of the plurality of quadrature signals, a power combiner coupled to the VGA stage and configured to combine the plurality of quadrature signals into a combined RF signal, and a power amplifier (PA) stage coupled to the power combiner and configured to apply a second gain to the combined RF signal and generate an output RF signal. Other examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna system for autonomous vehicles and a radar system for use in an autonomous driving vehicle.

    PIPELINED FFT WITH LOCALIZED TWIDDLE

    公开(公告)号:US20220034996A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17393262

    申请日:2021-08-03

    IPC分类号: G01S7/35 G06F17/14

    摘要: A radar system is provided in accordance with various embodiments herein. The radar system includes a transceiver, an analog to digital converter (ADC), a digital processing unit coupled to the ADC, a control unit coupled to the digital processing unit, and a twiddle factor table. The digital processing unit includes a plurality of fast Fourier transform (FFT) elements and a plurality of memory storage devices coupled to the plurality of FFT elements. The plurality of FFT elements and the plurality of memory storage devices are configured in a pipeline. The control unit is configured to control each of the plurality of FFT elements a predetermined number of times. Each twiddle factor in the twiddle factor table corresponds to an FFT element in the plurality of FFT elements. A pipelined Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) sequence of radix-4 elements is configured in stages and can be operated iteratively.

    Switched coupled inductance phase shift mechanism

    公开(公告)号:US11211704B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-28

    申请号:US16747407

    申请日:2020-01-20

    发明人: Narek Rostomyan

    IPC分类号: H01Q3/36 H01F21/02

    摘要: Examples disclosed herein relate to a switched coupled inductance phase shift mechanism. The phase shift mechanism includes a variable inductor element configured to toggle between a first inductance state and a second inductance state in response to a first control bit value, and a plurality of variable capacitor elements coupled to the variable inductor element and configured to toggle between a first capacitance state and a second capacitance state in response to a second control bit value. The variable inductor element and the variable capacitor elements collectively produce a first phase shift using the first inductance and capacitance states, and collectively produce a second phase shift using the second inductance and capacitance states, where a target phase shift is produced from a difference between the first and second phase shifts. Other examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna array and a method of phase shifting with switched coupled inductance.