Designing complex frontend modules for Ka-band and WiGig communication using XPU-technology

Highly integrated RF-frontends are a key component for K/Ka-band satellite communications on-the-move, multimedia entertainment systems, 5G mobile communication as well as 60 GHz broadband home access equipment and backbone networks. Designing such complex modules poses real challenges. These RF-frontends are not only composed of a large number of antenna elements but also of highly integrated complex multilayer feeding structures, RF-transitions, RF-components and power combiners. This paper presents how the XPU technology, which is a smart implementation of the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) algorithm on modern CPU architectures, enables a time-efficient design of frontend modules for Ka-band and WiGig communication, speeding up the whole development process.