Novel and Efficient Hw-Sw Developments in Millimeter Wave Antenna Measurement Facilities

The aim of this communication is to show recent developments in the field of millimeter-wave antenna test ranges. Measurement facilities are complete systems used to acquire the radiated field by an antenna under test. When operating in millimeter waves, some common implementation principles become simply unaffordable. Manufacturing tolerances, structures computation times and available RF power offered by instrumentation become challenging aspects to cope with in millimeter waves. The developments shown in this paper focus on these issues