SBIR Phase I: High Performance Millimeter-Wave RF Front-End Technology for Multi-Gigabit Wireless Communications

SBIR 第一阶段：用于多千兆位无线通信的高性能毫米波射频前端技术

• 批准号: 1913939
• 负责人: Armin Jam
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: SKYGIG, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1913939&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Performance; Millimeter; Wave

The broader impact/commercial potential of this SBIR Phase I project is significant since the platform is an enabler of a range of high-speed wireless applications for the next generation of broadband communications. The proposed technology platform will solve some of the key challenges of millimeter-wave (MMW) wireless radios and networks and can serve a wide set of wireless related applications and markets, particularly the telecommunication backhaul and fixed wireless access markets, among others. This Radio Frequency (RF) front-end system, integrated with the base-band circuitry in a wireless module, provides the hardware necessary to enable the vision of a truly fiber-speed backhaul network for 10s of millions of 5th generation (5G) cell deployments to provide the ultimate network robustness, agility, with significant cost savings for the operators and businesses. This advanced wireless technology will enable rapid and robust roll-out of the next generation network as well as a wide range of broadband wireless applications and can play a pivotal role in overall pace of 5G technology penetration. This in turn will impact many industry sectors, ranging from smart transportation, manufacturing, and healthcare to smart city, and the Internet of Things.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop an ultra-high performance MMW wireless RF front-end technology for the next generation of multi-gigabit applications. Driven by the rising demand of the data-intensive applications, there is a growing need for more advanced wireless equipment for high data-rate communications. That is why with the emergence of multi-gigabit applications, there is a significant focus on MMW technology as the frontier of the wireless communication. The existing MMW RF front-end technologies, however, are either limited in their functionality or suffer from high power-consumption, which makes them not suitable for emerging massive deployments such as 5G backhaul, last-mile broadband for enterprise and service providers, etc. As a result, there is a need for new MMW RF front-end technologies to unlock the full potential of fiber-speed wireless communications. The proposed technology offers an order of magnitude higher performance compared to the best-in-class wireless technologies and can serve as an enabler to multiple high-speed applications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该SBIR第一阶段项目的广泛影响/商业潜力是重要的，因为该平台是下一代宽带通信的一系列高速无线应用的推动者。拟议的技术平台将解决毫米波（MMW）无线电和网络的一些关键挑战，并可以服务于广泛的无线相关应用和市场，特别是电信回程和固定无线接入市场等。这种射频（RF）前端系统与无线模块中的基带电路集成在一起，提供了实现真正光纤速度回程网络的愿景所需的硬件，用于数千万个第五代（5G）小区部署，以提供最终的网络鲁棒性，灵活性，并为运营商和企业节省大量成本。这种先进的无线技术将使下一代网络以及广泛的宽带无线应用能够快速而稳健地推出，并可以在5G技术渗透的整体步伐中发挥关键作用。这将反过来影响许多行业领域，从智能交通、制造业、医疗保健到智能城市和物联网。这一小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在为下一代千兆应用开发超高性能毫米波无线射频前端技术。在数据密集型应用需求不断增长的推动下，人们对更先进的无线设备的需求日益增长。这就是为什么随着多千兆应用的出现，作为无线通信前沿的毫米波技术受到了极大的关注。然而，现有的MMW RF前端技术要么功能有限，要么功耗高，这使得它们不适合新兴的大规模部署，如5G回程，企业和服务提供商的最后一英里宽带等，因此，需要新的MMW RF前端技术来释放光纤速度无线通信的全部潜力。与同类最佳无线技术相比，该技术提供了一个数量级的更高性能，可以作为多种高速应用的推动者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。