Direct digital-to-RF conversion at the antenna interface offers many exciting opportunities to push the performance envelope of RF transmitters in efficiency, area, signal bandwidth, and modulation ...

Filtering is a fundamental function performed by RF transceivers. This tutorial starts with a review of filtering requirements for modern RF receivers and presents a review of traditional and recently ...

Q: Another topic is “Design-for-Testability for RF Circuits and Systems”—is this driven by new DFT capabilities in the RF realm? A: Yes, but it’s driven also by new needs. With wireless business ...

A RF probe is a circuit for testing equipment that converts a high frequency signal into a DC voltage. In this way it is very easy to measure RF voltages for either testing or adjustments of ...

Components include the Synopsys Custom Compiler layout environment with Synopsys ASO.ai for rapid analogue and RF design migration. Another components is Synopsys PrimeSim circuit simulator, and ...

Here’s our simple guide to rocking RF PCB designs. There’s also a lot of devil in that detail, for example when understanding edge-launch SMA connectors. ( Updated to add part 4.

The L-network is a simple inductor-capacitor (LC) circuit that can be used to match a wide range of impedances in RF circuits. Any RF circuit application covering a narrow frequency ...

This diverse portfolio underscores the convergence of advanced calibration algorithms, adaptive chip-level techniques, and robust simulation frameworks in achieving power-efficient RF circuit designs.

Front-end limiter circuits using Schottky and PIN diodes can provide needed protection in communications and other RF systems. However, designers still must deal with the upper-frequency limit ...