Design and Implementation of a Highly Integrated 8-Channel Transceiver for Massive MIMO in 5G

Abstract

The design and implementation of a highly integrated and reliable single board 8-channel transceiver at 3.5GHz is developed for massive MIMO system in 5G wireless communications. Based on this board, large scale 2D arrays, such as ${8\text{x}8}$ array, can be easily formed. On each board, 8 transmitting channels and 8 receiving channels in TDD mode are integrated and each Tx/Rx channel shares one antenna element. This transceiver can provide a verification platform for digital beamforming algorithm.