This week I worked on structuring our signal processing pipeline that we will use for beamforming. In particular, I read through several papers on how to beamform wifi signals, as well as implementation details regarding the spacing of array elements. I also met with Dr. Richard Stern to discuss implementation and architectures of beamformers in the domain of audio processing.
Our progress is on schedule in terms of the beamformer design. Within the next week, I hope to have finalized a beamforming algorithm we will use in our design. I also hope to have identified the critical components that we will need (antennas, A/D converters, clocks, etc.) for our beamformer.