Patent ID: 11901930
Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A radio frequency (RF) aperture comprising:
a digital personality circuit board (DPB);
a transmit section including:
a first air interface plane (AIP) including a first board having arranged thereon a first matrix of signal transmission elements, neighboring signal transmission elements of the first matrix defining a transmission pixel within the first matrix and said first matrix of signal transmission elements cooperating to selectively transmit over-the-air RF signals;
a first plurality of circuit boards, the first plurality of circuit boards being selectively operative to: (i) at least one of condition or amplify individual transmit signals provided to each transmission pixel of the first matrix; and (ii) to receive a modulated transmit signal from the DPB and divide the received modulated transmit signal into individual transmit signals for each transmission pixel of the first matrix;

a receive section including:
a second AIP including a second board having arranged thereon a second matrix of signal receiving elements, neighboring signal receiving elements of the second matrix defining a reception pixel within the second matrix and said second matrix of signal receiving elements cooperating to selectively receive over-the-air RF signals;
a second plurality of circuit boards, the second plurality of circuit boards being selectively operative to: (i) at least one of condition or amplify individual receive signals received by each reception pixel of the second matrix; and (ii) combine individual receive signals from each reception pixel of the second matrix into a combined receive signal and provide the combined receive signal to the DPB; and

a cooling assembly arranged to simultaneously cools both the transmit and receive sections;
wherein the transmit and receive sections, the DPB and cooling assembly are contained within a housing.