The development of a multi-port, multi-band pre-production Prototype antenna system Demonstrator ("PD") for the smart phone market

智能天线技术公司（SAT）是2013年从伯明翰大学分拆出来的一家公司，正在研究和开发下一代智能多频段、多功能、多便携、可配置的天线系统，适用于笔记本电脑、平板电脑、智能手机、汽车应用和其他移动/便携式设备。因此，这个项目的目的是开发一个台式原型演示器（“PD”），以满足当前和未来的智能手机市场的需求。这些获得专利的新型天线系统将天线的数量从几个（现代智能手机中通常有七个）减少到一个小型天线系统，允许WiFi、蓝牙、4G和GPS同时运行（见附录a），因此大大降低了成本、功耗、材料、尺寸/空间的使用。此外，它还显著提高了现有天线的性能，覆盖了400MHz至6GHz之间的所有频率，并且还支持新兴的4G长期演进（LTE）市场，从而延长了手机的使用寿命。这些市场上的一些顶级原始设备制造商对satat的技术和能力非常感兴趣，但尽管sats渴望尽可能多地利用这些技术和能力，但它没有足够的资源来跟踪所有这些机会。SAT在制造PD方面有相当丰富的经验，因为它目前正在与一家全球笔记本电脑制造商和一家全球芯片设计/制造商合作，为他们开发笔记本电脑天线系统。有了额外的资源，它还可以开发更大的智能手机市场，同时它在技术上领先于其他公司。如果成功，SAT将立即雇用3名额外的工程师，到2020年，SAT将至少创造20到25个新的工作岗位。预计，为一部手机制作一个PD的项目将需要大约62.4万英镑的资金，从2016年初开始持续大约21个月

Smart Antenna Technologies (“SAT”), a spin off from University of Birmingham in 2013, isresearching and developing the next generation of smart multiband, multi-functional, multiportcompact configurable antenna systems for laptops, tablets, smart phones, automotiveapplications and other mobile/portable devices. Thus, the aim of this project is to develop abench Prototype Demonstrator (“PD”) to meet the current and future demands of the smartphone market. These patented new antenna systems reduce the number of antennas fromseveral (typically seven in a modern smart phone) to just a single miniaturised antennasystem, allowing WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G and GPS to all run concurrently (see appendix A),therefore considerably reducing costs, power usage, and materials, size/space used. Inaddition, it has significantly enhanced performance over existing antennas covering allfrequencies between 400MHz and 6GHz and it also supports the new and emerging 4G LongTerm Evolution (LTE) market increasing the phone life. There is substantial interest in theSAT technology and capabilities from some of the top OEMs in these markets, but while SATis keen to exploit as many of these as it can, it does not have the resources to follow all theseopportunities. SAT has considerable experience in fabrication a PD as it is currently workingwith a global laptop manufacturer and a global chip design/manufacturer developing a laptopantenna systems for them. With additional resources it could also be exploiting theconsiderably larger smart phone market while it has the technological lead over others.If successful, SAT would immediately employ 3 additional engineers, and by 2020 thereshould be at least an additional 20 to 25 new jobs created in SAT. It is anticipated that theproject to make one PD for just one phone will require approximately £624k of funding intotal and will last approximately 21 months from early 2016