公开(公告)号：US09780857B1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-03

申请号：US15180235

申请日：2016-06-13

Applicant: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.

Inventor： Ying-Cheng Lee ,  Timothy J. Donovan ,  Dharmesh B. Bhagatwala ,  Ken Kinwah Ho ,  Hongyuan Zhang ,  Rohit U. Nabar ,  Tsunglun Yu

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08

CPC classification number: H04B7/0617 ,  H04B7/046 ,  H04B7/0626 ,  H04B7/0634 ,  H04B7/0689 ,  H04B7/0871

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a hybrid beamforming architecture are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a beamforming architecture including a baseband unit and a processor. The beamforming architecture is configured to determine a steering matrix based on at least the baseband unit and the processor; and wherein the beamforming architecture is configured to simultaneously support a plurality of beamformee client devices, each beamformee client device beamformed by a beamformer with at least one of a beamformer hardware mode and a beamformer software mode and with at least one of a beamformer explicit mode and a beamformer implicit mode.