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Design: Multimode, multiband transceiver technology delivers LTE

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Best in Test awards highlight advances

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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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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

Rohde & Schwarz simplifies measurements on LTE devices

RFaxis front-end IC assists ZigBee networks

Wideband PLLs promise enhanced noise and spurious performance

LNAs target 1.6 to 3.0 GHz receivers

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

Commentary

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

Bill Schweber

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

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Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

Brief history of scopes

Janine Love

I have been serving as interim editor over at scope junction and wanted to share a little bit of history that I dug up on the oscilloscope.

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Nostalgic about HP test equipment

David Ashton

Any electronics engineer or technical person you speak to will know about Hewlett-Packard (HP) test equipment. And many of them will talk nostalgically of a certain item they have owned or worked with. I’m certainly like that.

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And since you're retired now Bob, I'm sure you would have time to give us a couple more stories? ...

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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@luiz: Nice quote.. Features make the design-win, however quality "seals the deal".congrats Brad ...

What's a good "real engineer" question?

Bill Schweber

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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This discussion no VCC and also the one on anode and cathode brings up something I've dwelled on in ...

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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A GPS device on a car may have been installed by a "trespasser", but the person was caught in the ...

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