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Keysight Technologies is touring the U.S. and Canada, offering day-long test drives of the latest RF signal analyzers, network analyzers, oscilloscopes and bench instruments. See when they are coming to your area.

Millimeter-wave frequencies are being used more often, in automotive radars and soon in 5G wireless networks. But before such frequencies can become widespread, low-loss circuits must be designed at frequencies such as 60 and 77 GHz, and fabricating such circuits will require suitable circuit materials. Selecting circuit materials at such high frequencies will depend upon knowing which circuit and material parameters have the most effects on performance, and finding materials with a favorable set of characteristics for millimeter-wave frequencies.  

Brent Dietz offers a few New Year's resolutions for the RF industry to help 2017 load faster and run better.

In early December, I attended the 3GPP RAN#74 TSG meeting in Vienna, Austria. This was the last plenary meeting before the official 5G work item (WI) kicks off at the 5G RAN #75 meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia in March. The 3GPP membership has poured a lot of investment into the study of new technologies and methods to meet the 5G architecture requirements, and with the first big milestone just three short months away, here are a few high level takeaways from the 3GPP Workshop covering 5G.

Cobham Wireless VP and GM Ian Langley predicts that 2017 will see regression of GSM, LTE for public safety and the evolution of in-building coverage.

Recipes are often refined with time, in hopes of improving the results. Over the years, many different formulations have been applied to create high-frequency circuit materials. The efforts have led to a variety of current circuit laminate choices for a wide range of high-frequency applications and performance requirements.

Every year Swami Hindle makes his RF and microwave industry predictions for the New Year.  Here are 8 predictions for 2017 plus perspectives from executives at ADI and MathWorks.