{"id":21253,"date":"2020-11-17T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=21253"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:43","slug":"first-digital-single-chip-millimeter-wave-beamformer-will-exploit-5g-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/17\/first-digital-single-chip-millimeter-wave-beamformer-will-exploit-5g-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"First digital single-chip millimeter-wave beamformer will exploit 5G capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Complete system board with a 16-antenna beamformer array in the center. (The Michigan Engineer)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The first fully-integrated single-chip digital millimeter-wave (MMW) beamformer<\/a>, created by electrical and computer engineers at U-M, opens up new possibilities in high-frequency 5G communications. The technology could be used to improve vehicle-to-vehicle communication, autonomous driving, satellite internet, and national defense, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beamforming allows a device that is transmitting signals to point them in a particular direction, as opposed to having the signals radiate out in all directions. It is an essential technique for high-frequency MMW communication, which allows for high-speed data transfer, one of the key advantages of 5G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analog beamforming has been a standard approach for researchers, but a digital approach has advantages such as large-scale beamforming, highly accurate beam-patterns, flexibility, and the ability to generate multiple beams simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first fully-integrated single-chip digital millimeter-wave (MMW) beamformer, created by electrical and computer engineers at U-M, opens up new possibilities in high-frequency 5G communications. The technology could be used to improve vehicle-to-vehicle communication, autonomous driving, satellite internet, and national defense, to name a few. Beamforming allows a device that is transmitting signals to point them in a particular\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[899,290,270,534],"class_list":["post-21253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-5g","tag-coe","tag-hardware","tag-microchip"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",548,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content-183x140.jpg",183,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content-261x200.jpg",261,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",548,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",548,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",548,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",548,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content-548x300.jpg",548,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",548,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/board-beamforming5g-content.jpg",326,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The first fully-integrated single-chip digital millimeter-wave (MMW) beamformer, created by electrical and computer engineers at U-M, opens up new possibilities in high-frequency 5G communications. The technology could be used to improve vehicle-to-vehicle communication, autonomous driving, satellite internet, and national defense, to name a few. Beamforming allows a device that is transmitting signals to point them…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21255,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions\/21255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}