Intel Corporation

Apple Inc.

Tae Young Yang

Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe

Ofer Markish

Zhen Zhou

Seong-Youp Suh

Cheng-Yuan Chin

Ali Sadri

Yang-Seok Choi

Harry G Skinner

Debabani Choudhury

Kenneth Foust

Bradley Alan Jackson

Shengbo Xu

Tolga Acikalin

Renzhi Liu

Timo Huusari

Glen J Anderson

Chia-Pin Chiu

Ofir Degani

Ashoke Ravi

Anand S Konanur

Jose Rodrigo Camacho Perez

Bryce D Horine

Chieh-Yih Wan

Moshe Teplitsky

Kwan Ho Lee

Hossein Alavi

Jason A Mix

Eduardo Alban

Ronen Kronfeld

Baruch Schiffmann

Shuhei Yamada

Mei Chai

Daqiao Du

Ronald Michael Kirby

Adi Panzer

Kevin B Redmond

Hila Hazenshprung

Mustapha Amadu Abdulai

Ling Zheng

Soji Sajuyigbe

Guosong Lin

Johanny Escobar Pelaez

Jason Mix

Seong Youp John Suh

Various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods for an antenna assembly included in an integrated circuit (IC) package. The antenna assembly may be used for near field wireless communication such as package-to-package and/or chip-to-chip communication. The antenna assembly may include a feed plate (e.g., a top feed) that is capacitively coupled to a first via and a second via. The feed plate may further be capacitively coupled to a loading structure. The first via may be conductively coupled to a ground potential. In some embodiments, the antenna assembly may further include a stub structure (e.g., an open stub or a short stub) that is conductively coupled to the second via. An impedance matching network may be coupled between the feed plate and an IC die that communicates using the antenna assembly. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Antenna assembly for integrated circuit package

For example, a system may include a radome to be attached to a vehicle bumper fascia; an antenna array on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), the antenna array is between the PCB and the radome, the antenna array comprising a Transmit (Tx) antenna configured to transmit Tx radar signals via the radome and the vehicle bumper fascia, and a receive (Rx) antenna configured to receive Rx radar signals based on the Tx radar signals; and an absorbing spacer in a spacer area between the PCB and the radome, the spacer area separating the Tx antenna from the Rx antenna, the absorbing spacer configured to absorb reflected signals formed by reflection of the Tx radar signals from the vehicle bumper fascia.

Radar antenna for vehicle bumper fascia

For example, a radar antenna may include a Transmit (Tx) antenna array configured to transmit a plurality of Tx radar signals; and a Receive (Rx) antenna array configured to receive a plurality of Rx radar signals based on the plurality of Tx radar signals, the Rx antenna array is orthogonal to the Tx antenna array, wherein a first array of the Tx antenna array or the Rx antenna array includes a first sub-array and a second sub-array parallel to the first sub-array, wherein a sub-array spacing between the first sub-array and the second sub-array is shorter than a length of a second array of the Tx antenna array or the Rx antenna array.

Apparatus, system and method of a radar antenna

An antenna module and communication device containing the antenna module are disclosed. The antenna module is disposed in a metal cavity. The antenna module includes a switched beam mm-wave antenna array having radiating elements separated by less than a wavelength of the radiating elements. The array is fed by a single transceiver chain. The array is disposed at the focal length of a low-profile mm-wave lens configured to steer the beam. A sub-10 GHz antenna is disposed closer to the opening of the cavity than the lens. The lens is a Fresnel Zone Plate lens having a focal length of less than about the wavelength of the beam, or a Saucer lens having shells of different refractive indexes and having a profile that is more than 6 times smaller than a Luneburg lens with a same focal length.

Low-profile single-chain beam-steerable MMW lens antenna

A radar device may include a digital to analog converter (DAC) stage. The DAC stage may generate a plurality of analog signals. The DAC stage may generate a different analog signal for each transmitter chain of a plurality of transmitter chains. Each analog signal of the plurality of analog signals may represent a single digital signal. Each transmitter chain of the plurality of transmitter chains may include a transmit chain portion and switched analog beamforming network (BFN). The transmit chain portion may generate a plurality of intermediate analog signals representative of the corresponding analog signal. The switched analog BFN may generate a plurality of analog transmit signals for an intermediate analog signal of the plurality of intermediate analog signals. The plurality of analog transmit signals may include a beam formed in accordance with a state of the switched analog BFN.

High end imaging radar

For example, an apparatus may include a Printed Circuit Board (PCB); a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar antenna on the PCB, the MIMO radar antenna comprising a plurality of Transmit (Tx) antenna elements configured to transmit Tx radar signals, and a plurality of receive (Rx) antenna elements configured to receive Rx radar signals based on the Tx radar signals; and a surface wave mitigator connected to the PCB, the surface wave mitigator configured to mitigate an impact of surface waves via the PCB on a radiation pattern of the MIMO radar antenna.

Apparatus and system of surface wave mitigation for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar antenna

In various aspects, a package system includes at least a first package and a second package arranged on a same side of the package carrier. Each of the first package and the second package comprises an antenna to transmit and/or receive radio frequency signals. A cover may be arranged at a distance over the first package and the second package at the same side of the package carrier as the first package and the second package. The cover comprises at least one conductive element forming a predefined pattern on a side of the cover facing the first package and the second package. The predefined pattern is configured as a frequency selective surface. The package system further includes a radio frequency signal interface wirelessly connecting the antennas of the first package and the second package. The radio frequency signal interface comprises the at least one conductive element.

Package system and package

Devices and methods for testing microelectronic assemblies including wireless communications are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a wireless testing system may include a radio frequency (RF) shielded chamber; a device under test (DUT) in the RF shielded chamber, wherein the DUT includes an array of first antenna elements; a testing apparatus in the RF shielded chamber including an array of second antenna elements at a first surface of a substrate to receive a test signal from the DUT, wherein a distance between individual second antenna elements and an adjacent second antenna element is at least half of a wavelength of the test signal, and wherein a distance between the first antenna elements and the second antenna elements is within a near-field region; and an array of electrical switches, wherein an individual electrical switch is coupled to a respective individual second antenna element.

Near-field test apparatus for far-field antenna properties

A lens antenna system is disclosed. The lens antenna system comprises a hybrid focal source antenna circuit configured to generate a source antenna beam for integration with different lens structures. In some embodiments, the hybrid focal source antenna circuit comprises a set of antenna elements coupled to one another. In some embodiments, the set of antenna elements comprises a first antenna element configured to be excited in a first spherical mode; and a second antenna element configured to be excited in a second, different, spherical mode. In some embodiments, the first spherical mode and the second spherical mode are co-polarized. In some embodiments, the lens antenna system further comprises a lens configured to shape the source antenna beam associated with the hybrid focal source antenna circuit, in order to provide an output antenna beam.

High performance lens antenna systems

A positioning device and positioning method in which a first wireless signal is transmitted along a first signal path having a first signal path angle that changes relative to time; second wireless signal data representing a response of a wireless station to the first wireless signal is received; a third wireless signal is transmitted along a second signal path; and an assumption that an obstruction is between the wireless communication device and the wireless station is generated if the wireless communication device receives a response from the wireless station to the first wireless signal but does not receive a response from the wireless station to the third wireless signal; wherein the second signal path is a linear path.

Station detection using frequency-diverse array signals

A circulator system for use in a simultaneous transmit and receive system includes a transmitter port connected to a first port of a circulator component by a phase shifter and possibly a pre-conditioning impedance, an antenna port connected to a second port of the circulator component by a pre-conditioning impedance, and a receiver port connected to a third port of the circulator component by a phase shifter and a pre-conditioning impedance. A loop with an impedance is connected between the transmitter port and the receiver port. A double loop circulator system includes further phase shifters and impedances at the first and third ports of the circulator component and a second loop with an impedance connected signal paths for the transmitter and receiver ports, being connected between the phase shifters in the signal paths. High isolation between the transmitter and receiver ports is provided.

Method and apparatus for broadband high-isolation circulator for simultaneous transmit and receive systems

A display having an integrated antenna with a substantially uniform transparency and/or light across the display. The display may have a uniformity layer that is an optical balance of the antenna, wherein the uniformity layer and the antenna have respective optical transparencies that provide a substantially uniform transparency across the display. The display may also have a backlight that has a surface brightness intensity corresponding to an optical inverse of the antenna, and is configured to provide a substantially uniform light across the display.

Integrated antenna with display uniformity

Electrical interconnects having a non-linear conductive pathway, and related apparatuses and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an electrical interconnect may include a non-linear conductive pathway electrically coupling top and bottom conductive portions. In some embodiments, an electrical interconnect may include a non-linear conductive pathway that propagates an electrical signal generating electromagnetic fields with an electrical field orthogonal to the direction of electromagnetic-wave propagation. In some embodiments, an electrical interconnect may include a non-linear conductive pathway portion and a linear conductive pathway portion. Also disclosed are connectors including an electrical interconnect having a non-linear conductive pathway. In some embodiments, a connector may include a first electrical interconnect having a non-linear conductive pathway generating first electromagnetic fields; and second electrical interconnect having a linear conductive pathway generating second electromagnetic fields that are orthogonal to the first electromagnetic fields.

Heterogeneous interconnect having linear and non-linear conductive pathways

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Tae Young Yang