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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Ying-Cheng Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Timothy J. Donovan, Livermore, CA (US);
Dharmesh B. Bhagatwala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ken Kinwah Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Rohit U. Nabar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tsunglun Yu, Cupertino, CA (US);
MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a hybrid beamforming architecture are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a beamforming architecture including a baseband unit and a processor. The beamforming architecture is configured to determine a steering matrix based on at least the baseband unit and the processor; and wherein the beamforming architecture is configured to simultaneously support a plurality of beamformee client devices, each beamformee client device beamformed by a beamformer with at least one of a beamformer hardware mode and a beamformer software mode and with at least one of a beamformer explicit mode and a beamformer implicit mode.