RF & Microwave Designline Blog
Janine Love
4/27/2012 3:35 PM EDT
I love Bluetooth. Little did I know, seventeen years ago when I was assigned my first project to write about the origins of Bluetooth and the viking that inspired the name that it would bring so much joy and convenience to my life
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Luis Sanchez
I've heard the best of Bluetooth is yet to come. With the advent of Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy)... ...
Receiver protection: a game-changer
Doug Grant
4/24/2012 10:46 AM EDT
Receiver protection is a pretty important issue in radio transceivers of all kinds. Think about it…the receiver front-end is built to amplify very small signals – fractions of a microvolt – and needs to be protected from the output of the transmitter.
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KRagh
While this is a wonderful history, the practical application today stems from TDD systems such as ...
Janine Love
4/17/2012 7:37 AM EDT
There's been a lot of news and events surrounding oscilloscopes lately, so I thought I would do a round up for you.
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janine.love
I agree with you Steve. We are lucky to do what we do.
Doug Grant
3/24/2012 9:50 AM EDT
Why can’t the world’s biggest IC company get any market share in the cellular space?
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Hughston
However, deep pockets allow you to buy a company that can compete. I think Intel will do that within ...
Future of linear LDMOS lies in 48V Vdd operation
Leonard Pelletier
3/13/2012 11:16 AM EDT
The main point of this blog is to point out that there is a major shift in LDMOS technology for cellular applications and the device operating voltage is changing from the current 28V range up into the 48V region.
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Doug Grant
2/27/2012 12:49 PM EST
One thing the framers of regional frequency allocations did not anticipate was the evolution of global mobility.
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Nic Cohen
Excellent article, how would it take to low frequency, the sounds we don't always ...
RF, meet Analog; and his friend Digital.
Doug Grant
1/12/2012 2:11 PM EST
Techniques like digital predistortion and envelope-tracking draw from all three domains…digital, analog and RF, and allow fundamentally non-linear (but power-efficient) amplifiers to behave like linear amplifiers.
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RFguy2
Can someone answer if the RF is digital or analogue in the digital world?
JEDEC goes wide with mobile DRAM
Janine Love
1/8/2012 5:30 PM EST
Last week, JEDEC announced a new standard for wide I/O mobile DRAM: JESD229 Wide I/O Single Data Rate (SDR).
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elctrnx_lyf
Is the new standard is pushed by any manufacturers?
iPhone 4S best new gadget of 2011?
Janine Love
12/29/2011 9:08 AM EST
According to the opinion-site SodaHead.com, the iPhone 4S is the best new gadget of 2011.
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didymus7
More seriously, if you look at what those 962 voted for, it seems obvious that most of them did not ...
2011: The year mobile took over the world
Janine Love
12/15/2011 7:32 PM EST
I just heard from Mobile Future about a video they made summarizing the 2011 top statistics in mobile
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Frank Eory
One billion app downloads per month is a staggering figure -- an average of one app per month for ...