Featured Articles
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Connectivity Q&A: The Mesh Network And The Advancement Of IoT Devices
11/18/2020
Mesh networking will be a key mechanism to enabling the huge amount of data required by IoT devices in homes, cities, and businesses. Tony Testa provides some insight into how this all meshes in our world and how Qorvo plays an active part.
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Quick Guide To High Voltage Impedance Tuning
11/17/2020
Antenna designers face a multitude of challenges with mobile handsets: the ever-increasing band coverage requirements, challenging industry design constraints, and the continually shrinking amount of real estate left to fit antennas. By using aperture and impedance tuners, designers can tackle these issues. However, not just any aperture or impedance tuner can be used. Many applications today require a more robust, reliable tuning product to fully meet design needs.
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Connectivity Q&A: IoT Networks Standards Explained
11/17/2020
The term Internet of Things (IoT) has been in the news for several years now, but today we are seeing large adoption rates with the help of wireless lightbulbs, communicating Echo dots, connected thermostats, front door locks, doorbells, etc. The market company Statista is projecting 75.44 billion IoT devices worldwide by 2025 – a fivefold increase over a ten-year period. Applications span across all industries, including Industry 4.0, otherwise known as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In this article, Tony Testa will provide insight into the IoT landscape, outlining the way in which this market fits and communicates in the wireless world around us.
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Qorvo Helps Xiaomi Reap Full Potential Of Wi-Fi 6
11/17/2020
As a leader in RF technologies, Qorvo offers unique insights on Wi-Fi 6 router solutions. Xiaomi’s recently launched AX1800 Wi-Fi 6 router used Qorvo technology strength to the fullest. As Xiaomi designed its latest router, they partnered with Qorvo to leverage our RF technology and Wi-Fi 6 expertise to overcome some key challenges.
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Connectivity Q&A: Examining The Massive Growth In Home Automation
11/9/2020
Explosive growth is expected in the home automation market as more individuals adopt smart home technology. Statista is predicting the market to be worth upward of $53.5 billion by 2022. This is an astronomical number for a largely consumer-driven market. These numbers are mostly influenced by video entertainment, followed by home security and monitoring services. In this article, Tony Testa from Qorvo provides some insight into this high-growth market, giving some details about what Qorvo is seeing in home automation.
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Mobile 5G Device Antenna Tuning Demystified
10/13/2020
While each addition of an aperture tuner helps optimize the overall antenna performance for each band, it sometimes comes at the cost of antenna efficiency. Without the proper balance of antenna efficiency and performance of each band on an antenna, the overall device performance and range will suffer.
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The Top Custom MMIC Blog Posts – From Mixers To Phased Array Radar
9/2/2020
In February 2020, Qorvo acquired Custom MMIC, a company known for its best-in-class die and packaged components, which augment our power amplifiers to enable multi-chip modules for a broad range of defense, aerospace and commercial applications. Along with the acquisition, Qorvo also obtained Custom MMIC’s collection of insightful blog posts that provide trusted and useful information for designs using millimeter-wave circuits for satellite communications, radar systems, and cellular infrastructure applications. This posting presents several of their blog posts with links to more in-depth information.
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Connectivity Q&A: Boost Your Knowledge On Wi-Fi Filter Technology
8/31/2020
In this article, Tony Testa provides practical advice on bandBoost, coexBoost and edgeBoost filter technologies and how they provide engineers the ability to mitigate interference and boost bandpass signal performance needed in our wireless world.
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Connectivity Q&A: Let's Talk About Wi-Fi 6E – The 6 GHz Wi-Fi Standard
8/20/2020
Want even more capacity and speed on your Wi-Fi network? Tony Testa provides insights on how Wi-Fi 6E will bring it. This month Tony continues his Wi-Fi Tech and Trends blog series with practical advice on designing products for Wi-Fi 6E and unlocking the full potential of this new high-frequency standard.
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Qorvo® Mobile Filter Solutions Brochure
8/18/2020
Qorvo offers a variety of multiplexer filter solutions designed for enabling complex carrier aggregation (CA) in advanced LTE and 5G architectures.