FLEXWIN

FLEXIBLE MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGY FOR MICRO- AND MILLIMETRE-WAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS WITH INTELLIGENT PIXELS

Coordinatore	Airbus Defence and Space GmbH    more  Organization address address: Willy-Messerschmitt-Strasse city: OTTOBRUNN postcode: 85521 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dieter Cognome: Hofmann Email: send email Telefono: +49 89 607 23125 Fax: +49 89 607 24180
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	4˙548˙513 €
EC contributo	3˙100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-5
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-10-01   -   2014-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Airbus Defence and Space GmbH  Organization address address: Willy-Messerschmitt-Strasse city: OTTOBRUNN postcode: 85521 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dieter Cognome: Hofmann Email: send email Telefono: +49 89 607 23125 Fax: +49 89 607 24180	DE (OTTOBRUNN)	coordinator	0.00
2	ERICSSON AB  Organization address address: TORSHAMNSGATAN 23 city: STOCKHOLM postcode: 164 80 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Peter Cognome: Olanders Email: send email Telefono: +46 10 7170518 Fax: +46 10 7191112	SE (STOCKHOLM)	participant	0.00
3	IHP GMBH - INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROELECTRONICS/LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER INNOVATIVE MIKROELEKTRONIK  Organization address address: IM TECHNOLOGIEPARK city: FRANKFURT (ODER) postcode: 15236 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Uwe Cognome: George Email: send email Telefono: +49 335 562 5332 Fax: +49 335 562 5333	DE (FRANKFURT (ODER))	participant	0.00
4	MIPOT SPA  Organization address address: VIA CORONA city: CORMONS postcode: 34071 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: RADOJKO Cognome: STAREC Email: send email Telefono: 390482000000 Fax: 39048162387	IT (CORMONS)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA  Organization address address: Via Pietro Bucci 7/11 B city: ARCAVACATA DI RENDE postcode: 87036 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Lidia Cognome: Malizia Email: send email Telefono: +39 0984 494714 Fax: +39 0984 494713	IT (ARCAVACATA DI RENDE)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITAET ULM  Organization address address: HELMHOLTZSTRASSE city: ULM postcode: 89081 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Hermann Cognome: Schumacher Email: send email Telefono: +49 731 5026152 Fax: +49 731 5026155	DE (ULM)	participant	0.00
7	UNIVERSITY OF KENT  Organization address address: THE REGISTRY CANTERBURY city: CANTERBURY, KENT postcode: CT2 7NZ contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Jane Cognome: Benstead Email: send email Telefono: +44 1227 824203 Fax: +44 1227 8233998	UK (CANTERBURY, KENT)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

FLEXWIN proposes a significant advance towards smart RF microsystems by combining 1.) an RFMEMS switch process monolithically integrated with a Si/SiGe BiCMOS process, 2.) highly reconfigurable mm-wave building blocks, able to be used over a broad frequency range and for different applications, 3.) a new RF-system design paradigm built around the concepts of reusability, multifunctionality and reconfigurability and 4.) environmental sensing and control built into multifunctional RF ICs with digital control.As a first demonstrator of the proposed highly innovative FLEXWIN technology platform, a smart reflectarray architecture for broadband communication links will be realized. In fact, the core FLEXWIN ICs will be used as intelligent pixels providing spatial power combining with full individual amplitude and phase settings of each pixel in transmit and receive mode controlled by a serial bus. Together with the monolithic integration of the environmental sensors on the very same IC, it dramatically reduces the antennas control system complexity providing significant advances in RF frontend adaptability.The validity of the design paradigm will be further explored in two reconfigurable IC demonstrators using the RF MEMS SiGe BiCMOS technology and deliberately spaced in the radio spectrum: reconfigurable 'commodity' building blocks up to 5 GHz, addressing mobile and wireless data applications, and for the 30-64 GHz range, addressing point-to-point, and emerging wireless LAN applications.Overall, FLEXWIN will demonstrate enhanced and smart capabilities of mm-wave systems due to built-in intelligence allowing convenient and flexible control of important parameters, and the use in harsh environments due to built-in sensing and autonomous parameter adjustment in each module. Further, it will establish reconfigurable multi-functional millimetre-wave ICs as an off-the-shelf commodity which will ease mm-wave system implementation and shorten the time-to-market.