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PMF-COM - Leveraging RF-SoC FPGA integration to develop a 60 GHz polymer fiber communication system

LaufzeitDezember/2023 - Oktober/2024
Projektleitung
  • Wolfgang Scherr
  • Projektmitarbeiter*innen
  • Irene Terpetschnig
  • Philipp Sommeregger
  • Sandra Kleewein
  • ForschungsschwerpunktMikroelektronik
    Studiengang
  • Integrated Systems and Circuits Design
  • ForschungsprogrammWirtschaftliche Forschung
    Förderinstitution/Auftraggeber
  • Infineon Technologies Austria AG
  • Polymer fibers (PMF) reflect the latest and leading-edge research in wireline communication systems and a next step in direction of low-power, low-cost and high speed operation. Compared to optical fibers, they can be significantly more cost efficient in installation and operation. In respect to copper (twisted-pair e.g. CAT7/8 Ethernet, SATA, HDMI or similar), they can be also faster at lower power consumption. This applied research project aims to develop a research platform on one of the latest RF-SoC (radio frequency – system on chip) FPGAs (field programmable gate array), to allow more detailed analysis of the potential of such PMF links and to develop a real-life demonstration to show its capability. The research includes research on reliable communication (modulation) systems, which will differ significantly to the mentioned optical and copper SERDES (serialize/deserialize) connections but this system not yet defined. It also includes for the integration of the RF link the integration of the latest 60GHz transceiver ICs of Infineon Technologies (BGT60), which is also financing this research project. Thus this work can contribute to the development of a future PMF link standard, in a similar fashion as the initially mentioned standardized communication links.

    • Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Fördergeber/Auftraggeber)