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Extreme Design: When radar failure at 12,000 feet is not an option

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Prediction and negative-delay filters: Five things you should know

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Sophisticated thermal management solutions cool hi-rel systems - Part 1

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Measuring and understanding oscilloscope update rate

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Modularity provides functional, economical tire-pressure monitoring

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A short history of spread spectrum

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Test mobile devices by emulating the radio channel

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Testing modern MIMO Wi-Fi and LTE radios

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EMC Basics #13: EMC shielding--destroying a shield

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Technical Papers

Paired Wireless Sensor/Gateway Demonstration using 2.4 GHz AIR Modules with TI SimpliciTI

Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) module--A1101R09x Reference Guide

Anaren Integrated Radio

Glitch-Free Frequency Shifting

Mobile WiMAX MIMO Multipath Performance Measurements

Courses and Webinars

Fundamentals of the RF Transmission and Reception of Digital Signals

The Load-Pull Technique: Theory and Practical Application To RF Power Amplifier Design

LTE UE RF measurements - reloaded

Frequency Synthesis, Part 1: Phased Locked Loops

Selecting the Best Non-Volatile Memory IP for RFID Applications

Teardowns

FitBit blends wireless, MCUs and MEMS with online interface

A19 LED bulbs: What’s under the frosting?

Wide Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adoption seen in handsets

Yukyung marshals army of chip vendors for Viliv tablet

Inside the Samsung Galaxy Tab: Taking on the iPad

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Reference Designs

Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Products

Digital oscilloscopes offer low price point

Demodulation software tests next generation Wi-Fi

Aeroflex upgrades digital radio test set

Wideband I/Q demodulator improves receiver performance

Ruggedized SSD offers 200 GB of capacity

Waveform analyzer plug-in smokes at 50 GHz/32 Gbps so engineers can stay cool

Avago amplifier cleans signal quality and drops power usage

Analog front end targets femtocells and software-defined radio

Tektronix power sensors/meters speed measurements

Analog Devices releases 3.5GHz PLL synthesizers

Commentary

Test Engineer of the Year 2012

Janine Love

Broadcom's Brad Davis takes home the award at this year's DesignCon for design-verification testing on mobility system on chip (SOC) designs, inclding the BCM4330 combo chip.

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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My favourite test for techs is a simple diagram of 4-20mA loop between two boxes. One containing the ...

What's private anymore?

Janine Love

I was reading this opinion piece in the NY Times today on "Privacy, Technology, and Law," and it wrestles with the question of what is protected as "privacy" in the US given the vast technological changes.

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Whatever powers we grant to police will be abused at some point. Our rules of evidence try to ...

PCB debug and test event

Janine Love

I just heard about the ElectroTestExpo2012, which could be of particular interest for my UK friends.

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PCB Events are very rare will be interested to attend it if it happens in Ahmadabad.

Targeting RF key security

Rick DeMeis

How secure are your RFID car key and other devices—to be afraid, or not?

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Can't you unlock a steering wheel lock with a bump key?

DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

Bill Schweber

How does today's do-it-yourself experimenter situation compare to "back in the day"?

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This is the golden age of DIY, enabled by fast infomation exchange and low cost manufacturing ...

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