STTR Phase I: Design and Implementation of New Wafer-Scale Millimeter-Wave Massive-MIMO Transceivers

这个小企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段项目研究的实施世界？首款工作在毫米波频率的晶圆级100+单元大规模MIMO收发器。该系统的一个基本属性是收发器链的资源共享，从而大大节省了面积。所提出的系统能够适应任何多天线方案，包括空间复用、空间分集（包括正交空时分组码、最大比合并和波束成形）。这将导致性能的显著提高和功耗的降低。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是，它改变了地球仪的宽带多用户无线接入的格局，并帮助美国无线部门成为世界的领导者。圆片级大规模MIMO基站的理论探索、电路和系统开发将对新兴的多功能多天线无线通信产生巨大的影响。在技术创新的推动下，电信部门正在以极快的速度发生变化，从而产生了新的设备和服务。这个STTR项目将通过为无线通信的未来研究和开发方向提供前瞻性，为美国的这一创新做出贡献。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project studies the implementation of the world?s first wafer-scale 100+ element massive MIMO transceiver operating at millimeter-wave frequency. An essential attribute of this system is the resource sharing of transceiver chains, leading to great saving of area. The proposed system is capable of accommodating any multi-antenna scheme, including spatial multiplexing, spatial diversity (including orthogonal space time block codes, maximal-ratio combining, and beamforming). This will result in significant improvement of performance and reduction of power consumption.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is that it transforms the landscape of the broadband multi user wireless access across the globe and helps the U.S. wireless sector to be the leader of the world. The wafer-scale massive MIMO base stations will have tremendous impact on the emerging multi-function multi-antenna wireless communications by exploring theories and developing circuits and systems. The telecommunications sector is changing at warp speed, driven by technological innovation that results in new equipment and services. This STTR project will precisely contribute to this innovation in the United States by providing a foresight for the future direction of research and development in wireless communications.