Phased array architecture with distributed temperature compensation and integrated up/down conversion

A phased array system comprising:

• a plurality of beam forming integrated circuits, each beam forming integrated circuit couplable to a distinct set of beam forming elements;
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• a conditioning integrated circuit coupled to the plurality of beam forming integrated circuits and configured to aggregate beam forming signals to and from the plurality of beam forming integrated circuits, the conditioning integrated circuit comprising:
• a plurality of beam forming channels, each beam forming channel including a transmit circuit configured to provide a transmit signal to at least one of the plurality of beam forming integrated circuits based on a common transmit signal and a receive circuit configured to provide an output signal based on temperature-compensated signals from at least one of the plurality of beam forming integrated circuits;
• a common port coupled to the beam forming channels for selectively providing the common transmit signal to the beam forming channels and receiving a common receive signal based on the output signals from the beam forming channels;
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• a temperature compensation circuit configured to perform temperature-based variable gain compensation to the common receive signal based on a temperature sense signal to compensate for residual gain variation over temperature remaining after the beam forming integrated circuits.