Sub-Project: Front end module including antenna for broadband communication applications in vehicles

The work of IMST GmbH comprises various contributions in the areas RF circuit fabrication technology on LTCC, antenna design, and system design (base band and radio channel) for the eventual demonstration of an „In-flight Entertainment“ (IFE) system on board an aircraft as an example of a broadband multimedia application.

In particular, a substrate for and the housing of the demonstrator’s 60 GHz-front end will be developed together with suitable antennas. Final goal is to explore the feasibility of combining both the RF chips and circuitry and the antennas on the very same LTCC module. In the area of base band signal processing, the applicability of systolic arrays as circuit elements in digital signal processing will be evaluated and some exemplary algorithms will be implemented as parallel structures.

As a fundamental prerequisite for the design of the whole system, the characteristics of the radio channel at 60 GHz inside an aircraft cabin will be investigated and modeled.

The outcome of this subproject has further areas of application, like wireless telemetry & control or sensor networks.

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