A complete behavioral model of radiation-pattern characteristics of phased array using a novel digital phase shifter

Author

Coviello, G. ; Cannone, F. ; Avitabile, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng. (D.E.E.), Politec. of Bari, Bari, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

A complete and behavioral model for radiation-pattern characteristic of phased array has been presented. The model has many input parameters and it has a lot of features, such as parameter simulations with results analysis, unconventional two-dimensional color graph representation capability in order to show more clearly the results. It is an optimum instrument to investigate the performance of a beam-former in relation with an analogue phase shifter, ideal digital phase shifter, simulated real phase shifter and measured real phase shifter. Measured values of three different prototype of the proposed phase shifter architecture have been used in order to study the performances of the same architecture.

Keywords

antenna phased arrays; antenna radiation patterns; phase shifters; analogue phase shifter; beamforming; color graph representation; digital phase shifter; phased antenna array; radiation pattern; real phase shifter; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Brain modeling; Mathematical model; Phase locked loops; Phase measurement; Phase shifters; Phased arrays; Quantization; Radar antennas; Behavioral model; Phase Locked Loop; antenna; phase shifter; phased array;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems, 2009. COMCAS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3985-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2009.5385976

Filename

5385976