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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
May. 03, 2020
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Masoud Kahrizi, Irvine, CA (US);
Alex Ahmad Mirzaei, Tustin, CA (US);
Ali Sajjadi, Irvine, CA (US);
Bagher Afshar, Irvine, CA (US);
Babak Vakili-Amini, Irvine, CA (US);
Alireza Mehrnia, Tustin, CA (US);
Behzad Nourani, Irvine, CA (US);
Bernd Pregardier, Oceanside, CA (US);
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a device is included in a communications system, the device including a plurality of antenna elements configured in a phased array antenna; a plurality of integrated circuit (IC) chips, wherein each IC chip of the plurality of IC chips is associated with a respective subset of antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements, and wherein, for each IC chip of the plurality of IC chips, the associated subset of antenna elements is used for transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals by the IC chip; and a local oscillator configured to generate a common local oscillator signal and provide the common local oscillator signal to each IC chip of the plurality of IC chips.