Anokiwave is a company that provides highly integrated core IC solutions for mmW and AESA markets. They have introduced the first in a family of X-band Silicon Radar Quad Core IC solutions for commercial radar and 5G communications markets. The AWS-0103 supports 4 radiating elements with dual beam Rx, single beam Tx, and includes 6-bit phase and 6-bit gain control. The part provides high input linearity in Rx mode and is intended to be used with a GaAs or GaN front end. Additional features include gain compensation over temperature, temperature reporting, forward power telemetry with programmable delay power sampling, and fast beam switching using on-chip beam weight storage registers that can be accessed via direct address lines. Silicon technology enables very high integration of functionality thus enabling planar antenna design at X-band with reduced system size, weight, and cost.
The Anokiwave AWS-0103 is a highly integrated TDD (time-division duplex) transmit-receive chip in a commercial QFNstyle surface mount plastic package with dimensions of 7mm x 7mm x 0.9mm, easily fitting within the typical 15mm lattice spacing at 10 GHz. The IC is controlled though a 5-wire serial to parallel interface (SPI) bus.
Availability:
Anokiwave offers innovator kits and evaluation kits to customers for early access to the technology. The kits include boards with the AWS-0103 device, USB-SPI Interface module with drivers, and all required cables. Full production begins in January, 2016, with production-ready devices available June, 2016.
