Beamforming ICs Help Close the mmWave 5G Business Case

摘要

As global wireless data traffic exponentially grows at an annual rate of more than 25 percent, service providers will require mmWave bands to support the emerging "Mobility without Boundaries" trend. While mmWave 5G offers immense potential in terms of bandwidth, user capacity and quality of service, developing a commercially realizable mmWave ecosystem has multiple challenges for cellular service providers. These challenges include CAPEX and OPEX costs, quality of service, along with availability and scalability to surgically address available markets. Using many of the mmWave 5G radio and customer premises equipment (CPE) solutions in the market today, business case does not always close, leading many to believe it is not the right solution to satisfy the immense demand for data. With its Gen 4 IC technology, Anokiwave is changing that perception. To address the gap in performance at mmWave, Anokiwave re- cently released its fourth generation of mmWave 5G silicon beamformer ICs (BFICs). The AWMF-0221 and the AWMF-0236 set the benchmark for the industry's highest PAE and linear output power silicon ICs across all 5G bands. As shown in Figure 1, each IC offers a scalable 4 × 2 quad-channel architecture with dual polarization and independent gain and phase control for each channel.