Featured Articles
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Industry 4.0 From The Semiconductor Industry’s Perspective
5/23/2022
Referred to frequently as Industry 4.0, this paradigm shift is a global trend toward the digitization and networking of the industrial value chain and its products. Here, learn about the the challenges semiconductor manufacturers face and what opportunities have arisen.
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High IF Sampling Puts Wideband SDR Within Reach
5/23/2022
Increasingly higher sample rate data converters allow architecture changes to the radio front end that shrink SWaP-C, maintain performance, and allow software programmable common hardware. Discover technology that's enabling wideband SDR to transform EW and multiband radar.
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How To Select The Right Frequency Generation Component
4/19/2022
Understanding the performance characteristics of frequency generation components is critical to determining the right solution for the target use case. This is a quick guide meant to help RF system engineers through the selection process.
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RF Technology For The 5G mmWave Radio
2/22/2022
As the arrival of 5G gets ever closer, it continues to generate challenges for designers. When determining the best technology solution for mmWave radio applications, it is beneficial to consider all aspects of the signal chain, as well as the various advantages of different IC processes.
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Helping Customers Move Toward A 5G Future
5/20/2021
As wireless communications networks look to a 5G future, the test and measurement industry faces significant challenges in meeting the revolution head on. To accommodate the huge array of devices and applications the market will require, 5G will be more a leap forward than a step up.
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Millimeter Wave Body Scanners Market: Past, Present, And Future
4/27/2021
Full body scanners have become an important part of the security and threat detection toolkit around the world. This article discusses how system integrators of these full body scanners can be more confident in offering commercially viable solutions for this fast growing market.
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From Airport Terminal To Main Street: Keeping Public Spaces Safe
4/27/2021
There are some technologies that have re-defined their categories and made game-changing improvements in their applications. And while these technologies generally emerge to solve a specific problem, we can suddenly envision the range of possibilities they create for similar problems in other settings.
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Contactless Fluid-Level Measurement Using A Reflectometer Chip
4/27/2021
Fluid-level measurements can be accurately measured through the wall of a nonmetallic tank by placing an air-dielectric transmission line up against the side of the tank and sensing the RF impedance. This article provides an empirical design example that illustrates how a reflectometer device such as the Analog Devices ADL5920 can simplify the design.
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Discussing RF Electronics For Phased Array Applications With Analog Devices
4/26/2021
Much of the early phased array work was developed for radar applications, so considering the evolution of radar antenna implementations provides good insight as to how the modern digital beamforming antennas were conceived. This article summarizes some of the routine inquiries that are scattered in various forms on the internet into a more comprehensive discussion.
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Accurate Gain/Phase Measurement At Radio Frequencies Up To 2.5 GHz
4/14/2021
Electronic circuits fall into two broad categories—those that process and transform signals and those that measure signals. Circuits that measure RF signal strength, whose fundamental metric is power, are generally called detectors, but only a thermopile (bolometer) measures this quantity directly.