5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training

Commitment 3 Days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
User Ratings Average User Rating 4.8 See what learners said
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Delivery Options Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live

COURSE OVERVIEW

5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training cover the theory and practice of antenna engineering, communications, radar, and commercial and military applications. Learn how to system engineer, design, and build 5G and mmWave antennas. Antenna applications and properties include EM, the spectrum of frequencies covering microwave antennas from about 5 GHz to 60 GHz.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?
  • 3 days of 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training with an expert instructor
  • 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Electronic Course Guide
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • Explain key 5G and mmwave technology features and advantages
  • Describe major mmwave antenna applications using mmwave enabling technologies
  • Relate mmwave and 5G radio architecture and system implementation and antenna deployments
  • Learn the key antenna systems engineering concepts relate to design, performance, operation, and optimization
  • Describe mm-Wave antenna technology types
  • Design antenna arrays using basic mmwave principles
  • Simulate and model antenna performance with considerations of mm-Wave propagation
  • Predict 5G communication system performance using mmwave antenna
  • Measure and test mm-Wave antenna performance
CUSTOMIZE IT
CUSTOMIZE IT
  • We can adapt this 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training course:

  • 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering course is an ideal course for RF engineers, scientists, software engineers, testing engineers, analysts, engineering managers, antenna technicians, field measurement technicians, and project planners.
CLASS PREREQUISITES
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training course are:

COURSE SYLLABUS

History and Introduction
  • Antenna design in cellular phones: 1G-4G antenna evolution: monopole/ PCB-monopole / planar inverted F antenna / planar monopole/coupling element-based antenna
  • Typical types of antennas in a cellphone: primary cellular, diversity cellular, GPS antenna / WiFi antenna / NFC antennas
  • Matching Networks / L-Network
  • Commercial deployment in example products: mobile phones/laptops/tablets/projectors/routers
Basic Antenna Concepts
  • Blackbody radiation / Maxwell equations
  • Frequency bands
  • Antenna Reciprocity
  • Radiation pattern / Far Field, Near Field and Fresnel Regions / Beamwidths and Sidelobes
  • Friis Transmission Equation / Link budget
  • Antenna Gain / Efficiency / Bandwidth / Antenna temperature
  • 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training
  • Maximum power-transfer theorem / Smith chart review/impedance matching / Standing wave ratio
5G Antenna Challenges and Theory
  • Shannon-Hartley Theorem (Capacity)
  • Channel capacity/channel state information (CSI)
  • mmWave compatible substrates / Low-Loss Transmission Lines / Device-to-Package Interconnections
  • Small antenna apertures
  • Loss mechanisms /Free-space propagation vs. Multi-path propagation / Fading / Oxygen absorption
  • Antenna design tradeoffs: Bandwidth tradeoff vs. spectrum/tradeoff between complexity and performance / diversity-multiplexing tradeoff for arrays
5G Antenna Types and Components
  • Substrate integrated waveguides (SIWs), multilayer and multi-pitch antennas
  • Grid Antennas / Patch (with embedded cavity) / L-probe patch / Cavity / loop-loaded dipole/slot / cavity-backed wide slot/aperture antenna
  • Typical antennas for 60 GHz operation: Reflector, lens, and horn antennas
  • Microstrip antennas / Yagi–Uda antenna
  • Antenna parameters for mmWaves / Gain / Directionality/antenna effective area/efficiency/return loss
  • antennas on chip (AoC) and antenna in package (AiP)
  • The antenna on the chip / Antenna on the package
  • High resistivity (HR) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS
  • 5G Antenna Materials: RT Duroid /
  • Liquid Crystal Polymer / Taconic TLY / PET / RO4350B / FR4
  • 5G antenna Fabrication
  • PCB process
  • Low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC)
  • Die-sink electrical discharge machining (EDM)
Multiple Antenna Systems for mmWave 5G networks
  • Antenna arrays
  • Single-input single output (SISO)
  • Multiple input single output (MISO)
  • Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)
  • 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training
  • Single User MIMO
  • Multi-User MIMO
  • Pre-coding / Analog pre-coding / Digital pre-coding / Hybrid pre-coding
  • 5G and mmWave Antenna Engineering Training
  • Massive MIMO
  • Beamforming/analog beamforming / digital beamforming/hybrid beamforming
  • Linear array antenna theory
  • Linear array measurements
  • Design considerations for mmWave antennas
  • Polarization characteristics
Antenna Array Design Considerations
  • Friis transmission formula breakdown
  • Cross-coupling in the near-field
  • Array gain/power gain
  • Pre-coding / spatial multiplexing/diversity coding (e.g., space-time coding)
  • Metrics / peak-to-average ratio (PAR)
  • Testing: vector signal generator (VSG) / channel emulator/vector signal analyzer (VSA)
  • Distortion: group velocity dispersion (GVD)
  • Linearity: IP3, P1dB
5G RF front-end Devices and Concepts
  • System design context
  • Quantization error/data converters
  • Multi-band filters/surface acoustic wave (SAW), bulk acoustic wave (BAW), and film bulk acoustic wave (FBAR) filter banks and integrated modules
  • Machine learning for beam training, adaptive reconfiguration / Out-of-band information exploitation / IMU sensor readings
  • Phased array: Phase shift module / active electronically scanned array (AESA), passive electronically scanned array (PESA)
Antenna Testing (Verification and Validation)
  • Design Verification
  • EMC/EMI
  • Anechoic Chambers / Grounding
  • Radiation Pattern and Gain Measurements
  • Near-Field Antenna Measurements
  • Phase Measurements
  • Polarization Measurements
  • Impedance Measurements
  • SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) Measurements
  • Antenna Operational Validation Methods
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