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Table 1
Components in the beamforming hierarchy.
| Component | Number summed per group | Summed by | Total number per system |
| Vivaldi antenna | 4 | beamformer chip | 4608 |
| beamformer chip | 3 | hexboard | 1152 |
| hexboard | 6 | tile | 384 |
| tile | 4 | CDC card | 64 |
| CDC card | 16 | RSP boards | 16 (32) |
Notes. The final component in the hierarchy of analogue beamforming is the CDC card. There are two sets of 16 CDC cards, one for RF Beam-A, and the other for RF Beam-B.
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