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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2001
David Kenyon Vail, West Melbourne, FL (US);
Frank J. Tabor, Melbourne, FL (US);
Daniel P. Blom, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Stephen S. Wilson, Melbourne, FL (US);
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
A phased array antenna system may include a substrate and a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried by the substrate, a plurality of antenna element controllers connected to the phased array antenna elements, and at least one higher level controller connected to the plurality of antenna element controllers. The at least one higher level controller and/or lower level antenna element controllers in some embodiments may perform a processing operation on a first portion of a received multi-bit command message before receiving all bits of the multi-bit command message.