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The future of our industry depends on the interest that this generation of RF engineering and manufacturing professionals can create to inspire the next generation of RF engineering and manufacturing professionals. Read this for some great thoughts about the opportunities to aid in this process. 

2021 RF/Microwave industry predictions and outlook for hot topics. See what Swami Hindle, ADI, MathWorks, Qorvo and Keysight have to say.

Over the last few years, advances in semiconductor technology and RF design have enabled a plethora of high frequency test equipment that is affordable for the everyday engineer, hobbyist or student to purchase for personal use and/or learning.

Open RAN promises to lower network costs and barriers to entry to create competition through the standardization of hardware and software but will is work? Experts from Keysight, Qualcomm, ADI, Xilinx and VIAVI debate the pros and cons - moderated by Joe Madden of Mobile Experts.

Driving down the cost of test is a key challenge in high-volume component manufacturing. The trend towards adding more ports on components such as antennas, cables, and frontend modules (FEMs) increases the need for accurate and fast multiport network analysis. Minimizing operator intervention and reducing connection and calibration times is essential to increase measurement throughput. Optimizing your vector network analyzer (VNA) configuration is critical to minimizing the cost of test in manufacturing. That’s when the multiport and multisite testing concepts come in, but there are challenges.

Antenna selection is a complex process even for experienced design engineers who work regularly on wireless enabled products. That complexity is driven by many factors covered in this article.