Slepian beamforming

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A 256-Element Slepian Beamforming Accelerator with Analog Compute-In-Memory Multiplication and Accumulation

A 256-Element Slepian Beamforming Accelerator with Analog Compute-In-Memory Multiplication and Accumulation 150 150
Author(s): Wei-Chun Wang, Shida Zhang, Coleman DeLude, Laith Shamieh, Nael Mizanur Rahman, Isha Chakraborty, Justin Romberg, Saibal Mukhopadhyay

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An analog compute-in-memory Slepian beamforming accelerator is introduced for large-scale MIMO. The design performs complex-valued vector–matrix multiplication in the analog domain to project 256 I/Q inputs into a low-dimensional Slepian subspace and uses a digital backend with 4-tap FIR filters to generate one output beam. A test chip fabricated …

Published in: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Page(s): 1 – 1
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 2573-9603
DOI: 10.1109/LSSC.2026.3690381
Publisher: IEEE

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A Multiply-and-Accumulate SAR-ADC-Based Hybrid Slepian Beamformer

A Multiply-and-Accumulate SAR-ADC-Based Hybrid Slepian Beamformer 150 150
Author(s): Zhengqi Xu, Zhiyuan Zhao, Michael A. Laun, Coleman DeLude, Justin Romberg, Michael P. Flynn

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This article introduces a hybrid Slepian beamforming receiver architecture with low power and area costs. Traditional large-scale true-time-delay (TTD) beamformers for wideband wireless communication suffer from high power consumption and high hardware costs. As an alternative, the Slepian beamforming approach reduces the number of analog-to-digital conversions (ADCs) and delays for …

Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Page(s): 1 – 12
Year of Publication: 2026
Electronic ISSN: 1558-173X
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2026.3651452
Publisher: IEEE

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