Highly-scalable (hybrid-) beam-forming RF-receiver architecture

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Friedel Gerfers
• Subject Area: Electronic Semiconductors, Components and Circuits, Integrated Systems, Sensor Technology, Theoretical Electrical Engineering
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 397976366

This research project investigates architectural advances proposed RF-receiver, required for future energy-efficient large-scale (hybrid) beam-forming RF transceivers enabling significant power consumption and silicon area savings. Beyond, due to the small footprint per beam-forming channel, the suggested techniques enable single-chip integration of large NxN-segment beam-forming antenna arrays (N>>4) while maintaining full beam-forming flexibility.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants