50 results about "Reconfigurable array" patented technology

The invention discloses a linear polarization scattering reconfigurable array antenna, which belongs to the technical field of antenna manufacturing and comprises an antenna unit, an extension socket, a transmission type phase shifter and an inductor. The antenna unit comprises a radiation patch, a first dielectric substrate, a metal via hole, a metal patch, a second dielectric substrate, a perforated metal floor, a third dielectric substrate, a feed metal column and a radio frequency coaxial connector, the radio frequency coaxial connector is connected with the radiation patch through the feed metal column, and a variable capacitance diode and a capacitor are arranged on the transmission type phase shifter. The transmission type phase shifter is connected with the radiation patch through the feed metal column, the variable capacitance diode is connected with the punching metal floor, the bottom of the third dielectric substrate is provided with a direct current bias line, the direct current bias line is connected with the transmission type phase shifter through the inductor, and the transmission type phase shifter is connected with the radiation patch through the feed metal column. According to the invention, flexible regulation and control of antenna scattering beams can be realized, and the antenna has the characteristics of flexible control, fast response speed and high radiation efficiency.

The invention discloses a laser wireless energy transfer dynamic MPPT control method based on an RL-PSO hybrid algorithm and a reconfigurable array system, and aims to solve the problems of power oscillation and mismatch loss caused by light spot offset of a photovoltaic array under laser dynamic irradiation. According to the method, reinforcement learning (RL) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are fused, dynamic parameters such as the light spot moving speed and irradiance are sensed in real time through the RL, the inertia weight and learning factors of the PSO are adjusted in a self-adaptive mode, and collaborative optimization of global search and local tracking is achieved. According to the system level, a reconfigurable photovoltaic array is designed, and according to data of a light spot position sensor, battery series-parallel topology is dynamically adjusted through a switch matrix, and current matching is optimized. According to the method, double-loop control is adopted, wherein an outer-layer RL decision module dynamically switches PSO working modes according to the environment, and an inner-layer PSO module optimizes the working voltage. The system efficiency in a dynamic scene can be improved by 15%-30%, mismatch loss is reduced by 40% or above, and the method is suitable for unsteady-state energy supply scenes such as unmanned aerial vehicles and mobile robots.

The invention discloses a broadband circularly polarized scattering reconfigurable array antenna based on variable capacitance diode loading, and the broadband circularly polarized scattering reconfigurable array antenna is composed of a plurality of scattering reconfigurable antenna units. The scattering reconfigurable antenna unit comprises a resonance structure used for radiating or receiving signals and a feed and phase shift structure arranged on the lower surface of the resonance structure. The feed and phase shift structure comprises a broadband directional coupler and a reflection type broadband phase shifter. When the scattering reconfigurable antenna unit is in a radiation working state, the broadband directional coupler radiates energy to the resonant structure; when the scattering reconfigurable antenna unit is in a scattering working state, the broadband directional coupler transmits energy to the reflection type broadband phase shifter, and the reflection type broadband phase shifter regulates energy of secondary radiation of the reflection type broadband phase shifter according to bias voltage applied to an internal variable capacitance diode. The array antenna provided by the invention is wide in working frequency band, and the radiation performance can be ensured while the scattering characteristic is reconfigurable.

The invention relates to a polarization reconfigurable array antenna beam forming method using a polarization selection dictionary matrix, and aims to solve the problems that an existing reconfigurable array polarization selection algorithm is low in calculation efficiency, high in parameter sensitivity and incapable of achieving beam scanning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, giving an expected main polarization direction and a cross polarization direction; then, according to the polarization state which can be provided by each unit, constructing a polarization selection dictionary matrix used for selecting a unit polarization mode; then, according to the polarization selection dictionary matrix and a given polarization direction, constructing a corresponding main polarization beam matrix and a cross polarization beam matrix; and finally, converting a non-convex polarization selection problem into a convexity problem for solving. Compared with an existing stochastic optimization algorithm in the field of polarization reconfigurable array beam forming, the method has higher efficiency and better stability, so that the method has higher practical value.

The invention discloses a fast synthesis and beam forming method for an arbitrary polarization reconfigurable array. The fast synthesis and beam forming method can be widely applied to a low-cost large-scale phased array. According to the invention, the polarization states of the antenna units and the array beamforming algorithm are switched through the radio frequency switch, and beamforming of any polarization state can be realized under the condition that each antenna unit only uses one radio frequency channel. In the design process, firstly, polarization state arrangement is solved with the information entropy of the polarization reconfigurable array as an optimization target, an optimal array topological structure is obtained, and then the excitation amplitude and the excitation phase are solved with the expected polarization state and the expected scanning angle. The maximum innovation of the invention lies in that under the condition that each antenna unit only uses one radio frequency link, the wide-angle scanning capability of any polarization beam is realized through the irregular distribution of the polarization state.

The invention provides a near-field feed low-complexity reconfigurable antenna system, which belongs to the technical field of millimeter wave communication antennas and comprises a 1-bit phased array, a waveguide feed horn array and an air gap between the 1-bit phased array and the waveguide feed horn array. The 1-bit unit is composed of two magnetoelectric dipoles, and two diodes are integrated in the receiving unit to achieve 1-bit phase control. According to the 1-bit reconfigurable magnetoelectric dipole phased array disclosed by the invention, one horn mouth surface is used as a near-field feed source of the 2 * 2 magnetoelectric dipole sub-array, so that not only is the uniformity of aperture irradiation ensured through near-field coupling, but also the number of required phase shifters is reduced, and the excitation of the 1-bit reconfigurable magnetoelectric dipole phased array is conveniently realized. The waveguide phase shifter is directly integrated in the horn array antenna, by means of the working phase range wide enough, the phase shifter can effectively achieve phase distribution needed by array near-field feed, and mirror lobes in scanning beams are successfully suppressed. The reconfigurable array antenna is high in aperture efficiency, low in profile and simple in structure, and has the broadband scanning capability.

The invention discloses a data transmission system and host equipment, and the system comprises a DMA engine which is used for executing data migration between main equipment and an external bus; the programmable protocol adaptation layer supports dynamic loading of time sequence templates of two or more protocols in the ICs, the I3C and the SPIs; the security isolation module is used for blocking DMA access to an unauthorized area in real time through a hardware address permission lookup table; the dynamic buffer management unit is provided with a reconfigurable FIFO (First In First Out) array, and the depth and the bit width of the dynamic buffer management unit can be dynamically configured along with a protocol mode; and the mode management unit refreshes the buffer area and verifies the validity of the data during mode switching. The host equipment comprises a central processing unit and the system, and the CPU is responsible for configuration management and receiving security exception interruption. According to the method, hardware-level security isolation and dynamic buffer distribution are realized, the system security and reliability are improved, the resource overhead is remarkably reduced, the mode switching residual data is eliminated, and the transmission stability in a multi-protocol scene is ensured.

This application belongs to the field of antenna technology and relates to a polarization rotation unit and a beam reconfigurable array antenna. The polarization rotation unit includes a patch layer, a dielectric layer, and a control layer. The patch layer includes a first radiating patch and four spaced arrays of second radiating patches. The first radiating patch is square, and any diagonal of the first radiating patch forms a 45° angle with any diagonal of the dielectric layer. The second radiating patches include two or more rectangles of different sizes, with two sides of any adjacent rectangles collinear, and each rectangle is axially symmetric about one diagonal of the dielectric layer. The first radiating patch and each of the second radiating patches are connected by diodes, with diodes in the same direction having the same direction and diodes in different directions having opposite directions. The control layer is connected to the patch layer to control the on and off states of each diode and supports programmability. This application can realize polarization rotation and state reconfigurability.

The application relates to an inter-cluster multi-task dynamic scheduling controller and method based on a reconfigurable computing array, which comprises a task sliding window unit configured to extract task information from a task queue to form a sliding window; a state register unit configured to receive and store real-time state information fed back by a plurality of reconfigurable array clusters; a scheduling control unit connected with the task sliding window unit and the state register unit respectively and configured to generate a scheduling decision according to the task information in the sliding window and the real-time state information of each reconfigurable array cluster; and a task distribution unit connected with the scheduling control unit and configured to receive a task instruction to be issued and the scheduling decision, modify a cluster addressing field in the task instruction according to target cluster information in the scheduling decision, and issue the modified task instruction to the reconfigurable array cluster indicated by the target cluster information, so as to solve the problem of waste of computing resources in the prior art.

A method for sharing reconfigurable array modes in a MIMO frequency-modulated millimeter-wave radar array is proposed. Based on the echo signal data matrices obtained after analog-to-digital conversion of different modes, range-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and velocity-dimensional FFT are performed on them respectively to obtain the range-Doppler spectrum of different transmit / receive antenna combinations. Different modes with the same gain in the MIMO radar system are combined. Among the combinations with the same gain, the mode corresponding to the largest virtual array aperture in the horizontal and elevation directions under that gain is selected. The angles of these two modes are resolved and matched separately, and then combined to achieve the maximum virtual array aperture resolution. Digital beamforming is used to match the angle information obtained under the maximum aperture virtual array in the horizontal and elevation dimensions. This invention can effectively increase the maximum array aperture in the original modes with the same gain by utilizing the complementary effect between different reconfigurable array modes while using virtual array reconfigurable technology or MIMO technology.

The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional coarse-grained reconfigurable array architecture system and its control method. The system includes multiple first arrays and multiple second arrays, wherein each first array includes multiple first processing elements, multiple first memory units, and multiple first switches, and each second array includes multiple second processing elements, multiple second memory units, and multiple second switches. The system employs an interleaved stacking arrangement for the first arrays and second arrays, and dynamically manages the activation and deactivation states of various units through a configuration controller to execute neural network model computation tasks. The technical solution of the present disclosure can significantly improve data transmission efficiency, increase resource utilization flexibility, and achieve optimal allocation of hardware resources.

The present application relates to the technical field of data cleaning, and more particularly to a stream data cleaning accelerator based on FPGA, which comprises a coarse-grained reconfigurable array cleaning pipeline arranged in a programmable logic region of an FPGA chip and comprising a plurality of processing units; each processing unit is internally provided with an arithmetic logic operation core, a local register stack, a crossbar router and an instruction buffer; a configuration controller is used to issue function configuration instructions to each processing unit in the coarse-grained reconfigurable array cleaning pipeline; a quantitative perception stream neighbor interpolation engine; an interpolation value generation module is used to generate interpolation values according to a precise neighbor set; and a data interface is used to receive original data streams to be cleaned and output cleaned data records. The problems of insufficient throughput of traditional data cleaning schemes and excessively high computational complexity of K-neighbor interpolation methods are effectively solved.

The application relates to a linearly polarized in-band co-polarized scattering reconfigurable array antenna, which comprises antenna modules arranged in an array by a plurality of same antenna units. Each antenna unit adopts a multi-layer stacked structure: from top to bottom, a radiation patch, a first dielectric substrate, a metal patch, a second dielectric substrate, a metal ground plate and a third dielectric substrate are sequentially arranged. A plurality of metalized through holes are arranged on the center line of the first dielectric substrate, and the metalized through holes, the metal patch and the metal ground plate jointly form a resonator. Each unit is also integrated with a reflective phase shifter, which comprises a microstrip transmission line, a feeding metal column, a metal short circuit column and a varactor diode. The feeding metal column penetrates through the layers and is connected with the radiation patch, and the metal short circuit column is connected with the metal ground plate. The varactor diode receives external control through a direct current bias line, the reflection phase of the unit is adjusted by changing the bias voltage, and the in-band co-polarized scattering reconfigurable function of the antenna is realized. The device can realize flexible regulation and control of a wide range and low coupling of scattering characteristics while maintaining high stable radiation characteristics.

The invention provides a reconfigurable array debugger, a debugging method, equipment and a medium. The reconfigurable array debugger comprises a serial port module and a debugging module which are in communication connection, the serial port module is also in communication connection with an external upper computer; the debugging module is also in communication connection with the debugged reconfigurable chip; the serial port module is used for forwarding a command and data sent by an upper computer to the debugging module by adopting a serial port frame format; the debugging module is used for debugging the reconfigurable chip according to the command and the data; according to the invention, the serial port interface is faster in transmission, simple in design and easier to realize in chip design.

The application discloses an electromagnetic wave emission method and a reconfigurable metasurface integrated based on 4D printing, and belongs to the technical field of microwaves. The electromagnetic wave emission method comprises the following steps: obtaining a target voltage; based on the target voltage, controlling the 4D switch to deform towards a target direction, and obtaining an equivalent capacitance corresponding to the 4D switch after deformation; based on the equivalent capacitance, regulating an electromagnetic wave signal and controlling the radiation surface to emit the electromagnetic wave signal. The electromagnetic wave emission method can regulate the electromagnetic wave signal based on the demand voltage, can meet the demand of various application scenarios, reduces the weight and cost of the reconfigurable array antenna, and simplifies the manufacturing process.

The application discloses a linear polarization scattering reconfigurable array antenna and belongs to the technical field of antenna manufacturing, which comprises an antenna unit, an array plug, a transmission type phase shifter and an inductor, wherein the antenna unit comprises a radiation patch, a first dielectric substrate, a metal via, a metal patch, a second dielectric substrate, a perforated metal floor, a third dielectric substrate, a feeding metal column and a radio frequency coaxial connector; the radio frequency coaxial connector is connected with the radiation patch through the feeding metal column; the transmission type phase shifter is provided with a varactor diode and a capacitor and is connected with the radiation patch through the feeding metal column; the varactor diode is connected with the perforated metal floor; the bottom of the third dielectric substrate is provided with a direct current bias line; the direct current bias line is connected with the transmission type phase shifter through the inductor; and the transmission type phase shifter is connected with the radiation patch through the feeding metal column. The application can realize flexible regulation and control of the antenna scattering beam and has the characteristics of flexible control, fast response speed and high radiation efficiency.

The invention provides a high-reliability multi-data flow diagram execution device, which is characterized in that a proxy distribution module is used for storing a pre-generated data flow diagram pool when a current program is executed, and a plurality of data flow diagrams in the data flow diagram pool are loaded to a reconfigurable array in parallel under the control of a feedback control module; when the data flow diagram is wrongly calculated, other data flow diagrams which belong to the same program with the data flow diagram which is wrongly calculated are scheduled; the reconfigurable computing array is used for executing a plurality of heterogeneous data flow diagrams corresponding to the same to-be-executed program in parallel; the strategy judgment module is used for judging whether calculation is correct or not, outputting a result when the calculation is correct, marking a data flow diagram of a calculation error when the calculation result is wrong, and feeding back the data flow diagram to the reconfigurable calculation array and the feedback control module; and the feedback control module is used for controlling the operation of the whole device and sending the received feedback information to the proxy distribution module so as to control the proxy distribution module to schedule and calculate other data flow diagrams, belonging to the same program, of the wrong data flow diagrams in the diagram pool.

The invention provides a common excitation amplitude sparse reconfigurable array synthesis method, and relates to an information transmission and processing technology. The method comprises the following steps: 1) constructing a mathematical optimization model through a radiation characteristic requirement and a null requirement of a to-be-synthesized wave beam, and solving the mathematical optimization model by using particularity of conjugate symmetric excitation and a continuous convex approximation algorithm; 2) utilizing a feasible point tracking algorithm, introducing a slack variable to help to solve a feasible point, and overcoming a non-feasible solution caused by non-convex constraint; the method has the advantages that a plurality of radiation directional diagrams can be formed by one sparse array, so that a plurality of different application scenes can be met; the number of array elements is reduced through the design of a sparse array, so that the system cost is further reduced; due to the characteristic of excitation weight conjugate symmetry, optimization variables are remarkably reduced, and the advantages of the method on a large-scale array are highlighted; the DRR constraint is added, so that the dynamic range and the quantization precision required by the attenuator are reduced, and the hardware complexity is simplified.

Devices and techniques for loading contexts in a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor are described herein. A system or apparatus may include context load circuitry operable to load context for a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor, where the context load circuitry is configured to: (a) receive a kernel identifier; (b) access a first registry to obtain a context mask base address; (c) determine a context mask address from the context mask base address and the kernel identifier; (d) access a second registry to obtain a context state base address; (e) determine a context state address from the context state base address and the kernel identifier; (f) use a context mask at the context mask address to determine corresponding active context state; and (g) load the corresponding active context state into the coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor.

A computing unit, a hardware accelerator including a computing unit, and a method of operating a computing unit are disclosed. The computing unit includes a first operator circuit configured to generate a matrix used for a first operation with an input chunk through a recursive operation, and a reconfigurable array configured to reconfigure a connection to an input port or an output port to perform the first operation between the matrix and the input chunk and to perform second operations, wherein the second operations are different from the first operation.

The application discloses a kind of wide narrow beam and pointing reconfigurable array antenna and its reconfiguration method, comprising: radiating element array, including first radiating element subarray, second radiating element subarray;Horizontal plane feed network is provided with two output ends, respectively connected to first radiating element subarray, second radiating element subarray in corresponding radiating element;Vertical plane phase shift network is provided with an input end and multiple output ends, and output end is connected to horizontal plane feed network input end and the remaining radiating element in second radiating element subarray;Horizontal plane feed network is driven by horizontal wave adjustment drive mechanism and is adjusted, and vertical plane phase shift network is driven by vertical wave adjustment drive mechanism and is adjusted;Three dimensions of horizontal beam width, horizontal beam pointing and vertical beam pointing are realized independently, continuously reconfigurable, so that a pair of antenna can be flexibly adapted to multiple coverage scenarios, greatly improve the degree of freedom of network planning and optimization, and overall structure is compact, simplifies, easy to control.

The application provides a reconfigurable computing architecture mapping method based on graph convolution and reinforcement learning, comprising the following steps: acquiring a data dependency graph and a coarse-grained reconfigurable array, and calculating a minimum start interval of the data dependency graph; preprocessing the data dependency graph according to the minimum start interval; simplifying a hardware model resource graph according to the structure of the coarse-grained reconfigurable array; taking a node set of the hardware model resource graph as an action space; adopting a reinforcement learning model based on a graph convolution network to map the preprocessed data dependency graph, so as to obtain a mapping result of a data dependency graph node on the hardware model resource graph; calculating a reward value of the mapping result; and when it is judged according to the reward value that the mapping result meets a successful mapping condition, outputting the mapping result. The application optimizes the layout and wiring of a loop on a reconfigurable computing array by using graph convolution and reinforcement learning, improves the parallelism of loop execution, and thus increases the mapping quality and reduces the execution time of image denoising.

The present disclosure describes various systems and apparatuses for a compact frequency reconfigurable array antenna and methods related thereto. An exemplary array antenna system comprises a substrate; an array of patch antennas positioned on the substrate; a plurality of PIN diodes placed on a top surface of the substrate, wherein individual PIN diodes are located in individual gaps between respective ones of the patch antennas; and a plurality of meander-line (ML) complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR) decouplers placed on a bottom surface of the substrate, wherein individual ML-CSRR decouplers are placed under individual patch antennas in a diagonal direction.

Devices and techniques for loading contexts in a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor are described herein. A system or apparatus may include context load circuitry operable to load context for a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor, where the context load circuitry is configured to: (a) receive a kernel identifier; (b) access a first registry to obtain a context mask base address; (c) determine a context mask address from the context mask base address and the kernel identifier; (d) access a second registry to obtain a context state base address; (e) determine a context state address from the context state base address and the kernel identifier; (f) use a context mask at the context mask address to determine corresponding active context state; and (g) load the corresponding active context state into the coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor.

The application discloses an omni-directional end-fire phased array based on reconfigurable array elements and belongs to the technical field of antennas. The phased array comprises N*N periodically arranged array elements, (N-2)*(N-2) central array elements periodically arranged in the array are azimuth plane omni-directional antenna elements, and 4(N-1) edge array elements located at the edges of the array are reconfigurable azimuth plane omni-directional antenna elements. The application introduces the azimuth plane omni-directional radiation antenna element into the end-fire phased array, realizes 360° omni-directional end-fire scanning of the phased array in the azimuth plane, and solves the impedance mismatch problem of the edge array elements in the end-fire scanning by designing the form of the reconfigurable array edge elements. The array designed in the application can realize 360° omni-directional end-fire scanning coverage in the azimuth plane, maintains low profile and vertical polarization characteristics, and has no impedance mismatch problem of the edge array elements.

The invention relates to the technical field of electromagnetic excitation, discloses an array electromagnetic excitation system capable of adaptively adjusting spatial magnetic field intensity, and aims to solve the problems of non-uniform field distribution, inflexible parameter regulation and control and weak scene adaptability of a traditional electromagnetic excitation system. According to the system, a technical system of'multi-parameter independent regulation and control-adaptive power matching-reconfigurable array collaborative optimization 'is constructed, a distributed intelligent control architecture of'DDS + FPGA + AI algorithms' is adopted, and independent adjustment of electromagnetic parameters of an excitation source is realized in combination with a frequency-band power amplification and dynamic impedance matching technology; a reconfigurable coil array driven by piezoelectricity is matched with a multi-physical field monitoring closed loop of a Hall sensor array and a temperature / stress sensor, and the distribution uniformity of an electromagnetic field is adjusted in combination with a field-structure collaborative optimization algorithm. According to the invention, the energy transmission efficiency and scene adaptability can be improved, and high-precision adjustment of electromagnetic excitation is realized.

The invention discloses a reconfigurable tensor calculation unit, which comprises a pipeline controller, a processor and a processor, wherein the pipeline controller is responsible for analyzing an instruction, configuring a calculation mode and scheduling a task; the matrix calculation module is composed of reconfigurable subarrays and is used for executing multi-precision matrix multiplication and addition operation; the matrix cache module comprises four types of caches; and the AXI bus access module is used for realizing efficient data interaction with an off-chip memory through a DMA (Direct Memory Access) controller. Firstly, a matrix base address, calculation precision, a mixed mode mark and a target dimension are configured through a register; and then the DMA carries the matrix data into a corresponding cache through an AXI bus. The cache carries out dynamic recombination on the data according to the current mode and then sends the data to the reconfigurable array for calculation. After calculation is completed, a result is recombined through the D cache and written back to the memory. By using the tensor accelerator, the defects of an existing tensor accelerator in the aspects of flexibility, energy efficiency and hardware resource utilization rate can be overcome. The method can be widely applied to the field of hardware accelerators.

A method for automatically placing and routing processing elements (PEs), where each PE has a limited connectivity to its neighbors. The method may obtain placement primitive (PP) location window information, the location window information defining possible locations of a group of PPs within a coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA). The method may obtain hardware constraints regarding the array of PEs, the hardware constraints comprise local connectivity constraints and remote connectivity constraints. The method may receive a computation graph (CG) that represents mathematical expressions to be calculated by the array of PEs. The method may determine a location of the PEs of the array of PEs based on the CG, the PP location window information, and hardware constraints.

A quantum system can include a reconfigurable array of quantum sensors; and one or more processors configured to perform operations, the operations including: configuring the quantum system including the reconfigurable array of quantum sensors; obtaining a signal from a quantum sensor exposed to a signal for a period of time; transducing at least one state of the quantum sensor into quantum memory; encoding the at least one transduced state using an error-correcting code; processing the encoded states by quantum operations to extract at least one measurement value; and processing the extracted at least one measurement value to determine one or more classical values.