Technology
A phased array, not an antenna
The company described its technology as novel phased-array radio with unprecedented capacity and breakthrough economics for the new 5G millimetre-wave bands: many small radios, each with its own phase, whose combined wavefront can be steered electronically.
Steering is the point. The array spends its power where the user is, instead of spreading it across a cell.
The module
Three disciplines in one product
- BasebandBits in, bits out — the interface to the rest of the radio access network.
- High-speed digitalBeam weights, calibration and control logic, in FPGA or ASIC.
- RFICUp/down conversion and phase control at 24 GHz and above.
- Antenna arrayThe aperture that shapes and steers the beam.
Open interfaces
O-RAN, TIP and IWPC
The company’s site displayed the marks of the O-RAN Alliance, the Telecom Infra Project and the International Wireless Industry Consortium alongside its own — the standards bodies and consortia whose open interfaces it was building against.
Those logo files were not archived; the memberships are recorded here as text.
What the drawings show
The beam and stack diagrams on this site are this rebuild’s drawings of the described architecture. The company’s own animation — a phased array steering a beam, credited to Professor Ali Niknejad of the UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center — was not archived.
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Enabling 5G mmWave
The company was acquired by Skyworks in 2021. This site is a record of what RF Pixels published as an independent company.