Title :
A beam steering unit for active phased-array antennas based on FPGA synthesized delay-lines and PLLs
Author :
G. D´Amato;G. Avitabile;G. Coviello;C. Talarico
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell´Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, 70125, Italy
Abstract :
This paper introduces the design and implementation of a high performance, reconfigurable four channel beam steering unit (BSU) for active phased-array antennas based on FPGA synthesized delay-lines and PLLs. The unit allows a per channel programmable time delay equivalent to a phase shift tuning step of about 1.4°. A prototype has been implemented to validate the viability of the proposed approach across the 2.4-GHz industrial-scientific-medical (ISM) band.
Keywords :
"Phase locked loops","Field programmable gate arrays","Radio frequency","Delay effects","Microwave circuits","Microwave communication"
Conference_Titel :
Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2015 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/SMACD.2015.7301709
