This week I finalized the last few products that we needed to order. After some careful consideration I found the downmixing evaluation board that we plan on using, it features dual channel interfaces meaning we can connect two antennas to it, and it also is 50 Ohm impedance matched meaning we don’t need any additional hardware to prevent reflections on the signal line. We also found some WiFi antennas that seemed relatively directional without sacrificing field of view too much so that we can get sufficient overlap to get meaningful information from each antenna. The last product we ordered were the SMA cables needed to to connect all of these devices. By using these cables we are able to space out the antennas accordingly so that we can perform beamforming.
We also spent some time this week on administrative tasks as we needed to organize our task breakdown in order to make sure we are able to complete everything on time. By making a more detailed breakdown of tasks we will be able to stay more focused and not spend as much time trying to decide what to work on next. This upcoming week we hope to start receiving components so that we can start testing with the actual parts that we will be using. This will allow us to start working on solving any problems that may arise when we start combining these modules.