How does the 14xx, 16xx and 68xx families of mmWave transceivers steer the beam for applications that discuss a 120° field of view? I understand phased arrays and beam forming but these types of arrays usually have electronic phase shifters on the TX or RX channels. The 1443 and 6843 show TX phase shifters but they are described as "binary" which I believe to be either 0° or 180° and are used for interference mitigation.
Q: Does TI use combinations of RX and TX channels and their layout defined phase relationships to "steer" the beam? Or are there real phase shifters with some phase adjustments other than 0° or 180°?
Q: Do the ADCs on the receivers simultaneously sample so that there can be multiple angles determined through the FFT?
Q: When steering the beam, amplitude of TX/RX decreases with increasing angle away from normal to the array?
Q: If the array were mechanically steered so that data were collected only normal to the array, could the heat map be populated with data from this scan in the capon phase and then this is processed as if the data were electronically scanned?