60 GHz wireless broadband cable replacement for machine vision applications

In this paper we present a wireless 60 GHz OFDM transceiver for a high-throughput GigE Vision standard compliant color CCD camera system used in machine vision applications. The OFDM transceiver provides net data rates up to 3.9 Gb/s. The medium access controller (MAC) offers the reliable GigE point-to-point cable replacement functionality with special support of an asymmetrical downlink scenario. The OFDM baseband processor (BB) and the MAC were fully implemented in FPGA technology. The developed demonstrator fulfills the high throughput requirements of the camera system.