With 5G becoming a critical component for addressing the increasing mobile internet usage, the Taiwan government is supporting academia to develop future technologies. The Taiwan government has called upon NTU, a top ranked university, to set up the High-Speed Radio Frequency and mmWave Center, perform advanced research and further assist the local industries.

Keysight donated a 4x4 MIMO measurement system the center to develop the key components used in next-generation communication system, such as CMOS-based MMIC's, LTCC-based SiP, smart antenna and PA front-end modules. Several local industrial companies have agreed to commercialize the developed technologies.

"I am very pleased to have the donation of B4G MIMO measurement equipment from Keysight for our research," said Prof Tzong-Lin Wu, chairman, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, NTU and the center chair.

"Keysight has the most complete solutions and experiences including EDA tools and measurement environment to help speed up our work from design to test and verify our prototypes."

"We are very pleased that National Taiwan University has selected Keysight's modular-based MIMO solution to meet their next generation wireless test challenges," said Mario Narduzzi, Keysight Modular Solutions Marketing Manager.

"We believe our solution provides the most accurate and flexible architecture allowing NTU to meet their needs today and in the future."

"The collaboration with NTU on 5G is an important next step," said Allen Chang, Keysight Taiwan general manager.

"We have the core measurement science and NTU is highly acclaimed for its talent and advanced research. This joint effort will help speed up the next-generation technology development."

Currently, the industry members to participate in this project contains Quanta Computer, Microelectronics Technology, Realtek Semiconductor, TSMC and the Keysight.