White Papers

RF markets are demanding greater performance for wireless links and sensing applications. Active Antenna Systems are the incumbent solution, but come with high cost and complexity. This white paper demonstrates how polymer dielectric 3D printing is used to create higher performance RF devices that can reduce complexity and cost of RF systems.

Richardson RFPD engineers and others have teamed with Analog Devices to introduce a highly-integrated transceiver and have built SoMs and RF front ends to interface with it. Our goal is to provide engineers with small, low-power, high-performance starting points that will reduce design time and the amount of needed resources.

Engineers often need to test the direction finding capabilities of radar warning receivers in the lab. A perfect solution is to use multiple coupled R&S®SMW200A vector signal generators that are phase-coherent and time-synchronized. This setup enables simulation of the angle of arrival (AoA) of radar signals in the lab.

Is RF engineering a form of black magic? This article analyzes the challenges faced in the development of ADH519S, an 18 GHz to 31 GHz low noise amplifier (LNA), for the aerospace market. The die used in the product development for space was originally released to the commercial industry in the LC4 package.

In this paper, TE Connectivity (TE) will examine smart meters—a key part of the smart grid ecosystem—and describe the market growth factors, technology trends, applications and features to consider.

Want to discover antenna measurement key parameters and over-the-air (OTA) test methods and setups? Read this white paper to learn more on the technical background for OTA testing on 5G NR devices. Focusing on RF conformance aspects and UEs, the paper examines the requirements described in the technical specifications.

Many consumer products communicate over broadband networks. From television to fiber transmission networks, the bandwidth of data communication is increasing, and the integrity of RF signals has become a major concern. This paper demonstrates how inductors are used for RF isolation in circuits ranging from relatively narrow band applications like portable devices up to broadband networks for data distribution.

Discover how ultra-fast data conversion and signal processing systems can be designed to guarantee deterministic latency. Past efforts focused on increasing data transmission speeds and bandwidths but increasingly, modern applications now set an equally high value on determinism. This article considers determinism, at device level and expands on the topic of how ultra-fast data conversion and signal processing systems can be designed to guarantee deterministic latency.

A discussion of noise figure measurements includes a wide number of options, instrumentation, and techniques each with their own advantages and limitations. In this tech brief, we focus on non-cryogenic applications, with proven performance, that can be conducted with standard laboratory equipment and easily followed by trained personnel.

Measurements of very high noise figure components are performed for a number of reasons. For instance, in a wide range of applications, devices under test (DUT) are characterized within a complex test setup that includes high losses before or after the low noise DUT.