mmWave Educational and Developer Kit
Developer Kit Key Features and Benefits
The best way to learn new technology is to get hands-on experience by operating it step-by-step. The Developer Kit is not only suitable for education and academics but R&D for prototype development as well. This is because it can thoroughly evaluate the hardware, software algorithm, and array antenna. The Developer kit is well recognized and has been adopted by many universities and development centers. The kit offers the best practice for the research and development of mmWave technology.
| Built for Developers | Built for Education |
| – Ready-to-use complete mmWave communication testbed set – Flexible array antenna test platform – Time-saving theories for prototyping | – Step-by-step courses in beamforming technology – Affordable and flexible for experiment cases |
World’s First Beamforming Experiment Solution for Developers
The 5G mmWave Developer Kit can be used for a variety of 5G mmWave beamforming research and development projects. The BBoard with AAkit and PLO can be a beam generator that emits beams at multiple angles. A COCO antenna with an amplifier and a power detector, on the other hand, can receive and detect signals.
Communication System Prototyping
By connecting UD Box with baseband instruments, developers and researchers can conduct more 5G mmWave communication R&D projects.
- Compatible with most SDRs: NI USRP/ Xilinx FPGA
- Beam tracking algorithm development
- Beam management implementation
World’s First Beamforming Kit for Education
5G mmWave courseware and Lab Cookbook teach the principles behind beamforming and experiments to understand the propagation property of millimeter-wave signals.
Courseware: Basic RF Training and Beamforming
To educate next-generation RF engineers, the Developer Kit provides comprehensive mmWave hardware and lab sheets to save professors time in courseware preparation.
Labs included with the Kit:
- Lab 1: Channel Gain
- Lab 2: Link Budget Estimation
- Lab 3: Phase Calibration
- Lab 4: Beamforming
- Lab 5: Bema Steering
- Lab 6: Bema Pattern Measurement
- Lab 7: Receiver Channel Gain Measurement
- Lab 8: Receiver In-Phase Implementation
Array Antenna Verification
Antenna engineers can verify their designs.
Four independent RF channels synthesize beams by adjusting the phase and amplitude of each channel.
Affordable and Time-Saving
5G mmWave Developer Kit can make Professors’ life easy in courseware preparation and help engineering students learn the fundamentals of beamforming and mmWave propagation.
The Developer Kit Includes:
Signal Source- PLO
- Freq: 26.5- 29.5 GHz
- Freq. Step: 8
- Output Power: 2dBm±3d@28GHz
5G FR2 Beamformer
- Freq: 26.5 – 29.5 GHz
- 4 Controllable RF Channels
- 15 dB Gain Control Range
- Max Gain: 18dB Tx
Power Detector
- Freq: 100MHz – 40GHz
- 35dB Linear Dynamic Range (< ± dB Error)
28 GHz COCO Antenna
- Freq: 27 – 29 GHz
- Gain: 7 dBi @28GHz
- Omni-Directional Radiation at Horizontal Plan (within ± 1dB Gain Variation)
RF Cables
- Support up to 40 GHz Low Insertion Loss
- 4 Elements
Array Antenna AA Kit
- Freq: 26.5 – 29.5 GHz
- Antenna Gain: 15dBi
- 4 Elements
Amplifier
- Freq: 20 – 40 GHz
- Gain: 15dB
- Noise Figure: 3.5dB
Power Combiner/ Splitter
- Freq: 10 – 40 GHz
- Insertion Loss: 1.2dB Max
- Isolation: 13dB Max
mmWave Beamformer with UI
The intuitive UI, TMXLAB Kit (TLK), connects to the BBoard via the LAN port to control the phase and amplitude of each RF port to form the beams. An API is included, and it is compatible with LabVIEW, MATLAB, Python, C#, C++, along with other programming languages.