TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:55 am
by PaulNi
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2567/tsm ... ckaging/2/
Scroll down to "InFO Antenna-in-Package (InFO_AiP)"
Looks quite handy, what do you think?
Re: TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:15 pm
by ESP_igrr
At least one %semiconductor_company% had this working around 2013, so should be possible in 2019, I guess? (May be a different frequency band though)
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10122420B2/en
Re: TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 4:07 am
by WiFive
Easier at 30ghz than 2.4ghz but bcm20732S did it for Bluetooth.
Re: TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:36 am
by PaulNi
Quite a boon if you want to export to US. The chip with built in antenna should amount to a "standalone module" for purposes of FCC certification. So you don't have to recertify every device with it.