Transceivers

In 2008, Phiar hopes to complete its first viable transceiver.

Because Phiar’s metal-insulator technology is amorphous and compatible with a wide range of substrate materials, a Phiar transceiver could be manufactured directly atop supporting CMOS electronics.

In a 60 GHz WPAN application, for example, a Phiar transceiver will function as the analog front-end of the PHY with an integrated, monolithic antenna array. The MAC and digital baseband portion of the PHY could be implemented on a single CMOS chip die. On the same manufacturing line, that digital CMOS chip will go through a few more process steps to add Phiar’s metal-insulator radio atop the inexpensive CMOS chip.

The result is a single, fully integrated radio chip that includes a complete MAC, PHY and antennas. No SiGe, no epitaxially grown layers, and no flip-chip assembly required. The result is a high performance, small form-factor, low cost radio.

If your products could benefit from integrity, lower costs and higher performance transceivers for radar or communications applications, contact Phiar to get started.