CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A DISTRIBUTED FORM FACTOR MILLIMETER WAVE RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER
A consumer electronic device having distributed form factor millimeter wave receiver and transmitter comprising a first motherboard part including a baseband module; a second motherboard part including a receive (RX) active antenna, wherein the RX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables; and a third motherboard part including a transmit (TX) active antenna, wherein the TX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables.
1 . A distributed form factor millimeter wave radio apparatus, comprising:
a first motherboard part including a baseband module, wherein the first motherboard part is mounted on a first plane of a portable computing device;
a second motherboard part including a first millimeter wave radio module configured to receive (RX) and transmit (TX) millimeter wave signals; and
a third motherboard part including a second millimeter wave radio module configured to receive (RX) and transmit (TX) millimeter wave signals, wherein each of the second motherboard part and the third motherboard part is mounted on a second plane of the portable computing device which is distributed from the first plane, wherein the second motherboard part is connected to the baseband module through a first cable, and the third motherboard part is connected to the baseband module through a second cable, wherein each of the first and second cables is coupled at each of its ends to a resistor-capacitor (RC) network.
2 . The radio apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each of the first cable and the second cable includes a pair of wires for simultaneously transferring signals that include at least: an I-baseband signal, a Q-baseband signal, a control signal, a local oscillator signal, and a power signal.
3 . The radio apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the 1 -baseband signal, the Q-baseband signal and the local oscillator signal are characterized as low frequency.
4 . The radio apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the portable computing device comprises at least a laptop computer.
5 . The radio apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the first plane is a base plane of the laptop computer and the second plane is the plane of the laptop computer.
6 . The radio apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the millimeter wave is the 60 GHz frequency band.
7 . The radio apparatus of claim 2 , wherein each of the first and second cables is coupled at each of its ends to a diplexer.
8 . The radio apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the diplexer is utilized to multiplex and de-multiplex the I-baseband signal, the Q-baseband signal, and the local oscillator signal.
9 . The radio apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the RC network is utilized to multiplex and de-multiplex the power signal and the control signal.