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RF & Wireless Archive
January 2008 - July 2008
RF and Wireless Technology Insights provide information on RF transceiver design,
the use of new-generation antenna drivers (power amplifiers and low-noise receivers),
voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), frequency synthesizers, mixers and filter components.
Wireless applications include cell phones, Bluetooth, HomeRF and IEEE802.11 wireless LANs.
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"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for July 21, 2008
Introduction to Wireless Systems--A Tutorial--Part I
Understand how PSRR and other power-supply factors affect mobile-phone audio quality
Asymmetrical Doherty for 3G base stations
Building a power supply for discontinuous transmission wireless networks
Under the Hood: Handset holds surprise package
Under the Hood - Update: Apple iPhone 3G exposed
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for July 14, 2008
Video: Inside iPhone 3G
Under the Hood: Intel and TriQuint surprise with iPhone 3G wins
Tutorial: Radio Basics for UHF RFID--Part IV
How to select effective ESD protection diodes
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for July 7, 2008
Building flexible architectures for configurable UAV systems
Designing a MMIC VCO
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for June 30, 2008
Tutorial: Radio Basics for UHF RFID--Part II
Safe bet: tire pressure sensors
Extreme design: SuitSat pushes engineers' limits
Measuring insertion loss in automated test systems
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for June 23, 2008
GPS RF antenna modules for mobile handset applications
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for June 16, 2008
Silicon TV tuners kick the CAN
How to meet the design challenges of WiMAX power amplifiers
Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe: choosing a low power wireless network protocol - Part 2
Eeny, Meeny, Miney Moe: choosing a low power wireless network protocol - Part 1
Accurate prediction of harmonic levels from non-linear gain expansions, Part 2
Unique component contest sparks engineering creative flow
Power-reduction details determine a chip's overall power consumption (Part 2 of 2)
Demystifying UHF Gen 2 RFID, HF RFID
Accurate prediction of harmonic levels from non-linear gain expansions, Part 1
$100 BOM eludes first OLPC laptop
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for June 2, 2008
How to use optional wireless power-save protocols to dramatically reduce power consumption
Verify the design of two-way radio
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for May 26, 2008
Attacking RFID--Part IV
Under the Hood: Universal remote gets on grid
Thermal management in digital and RF designs
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for May 19, 2008
Attacking RFID--Part III
Characterizing Nanometer CMOS PLLs, Sigma-Delta ADCs and AGCs
Under the Hood: Mature devices get Rolly rocking
Reference design kit enables RF engineers to evaluate Class-D amplifier
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for May 12, 2008
Attacking RFID--Part II
Statistical Range Analysis in RF Systems: the "Range Fallacy"
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for May 5, 2008
Attacking RFID--Part I
Under the Hood: Surveillance on a shoestring
Suppressing and containing? Try spread spectrum clocking to reduce EMI
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for April 28, 2008
Power management in mobile devices--A view of energy conservation--Part III
'How to Cheat': The Physics of RFID--Part V
Challenges of silicon television-tuner design
'How to Cheat': The Physics of RFID--Part IV
How to characterize surface-mount RF devices
Under the Hood: GPS Special - Garmin nuvi 750 vs. HP iPaq 310
Tips and Tricks: Nine steps that reduce non-stationary mobile phone noise up to 25dB
'How to Cheat': The Physics of RFID--Part III
Using programmable spread spectrum clock generators for EMI Reduction
Choosing and using resistive power splitters and dividers
Reconfigurable radios, part 2: Energy-aware radio management
Under the Hood: Mini-teardown reveals Ford Sync's economical design
'How to Cheat': The Physics of RFID--Part II
Under the Hood: Gyro sensor liberates mouse
Reducing power consumption in ultrawideband chips
Sniffing GSM off the air
Reconfigurable radios, part 1: SDR architectures
'How to Cheat': The Physics of RFID
Radio Architectures, Pt 5: ADCs and Receivers
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for March 17, 2008
Radio Architectures, Pt 4: sensitivity, noise, front-end amplifiers
RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID--Part IV
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for March 10, 2008
Hardware needs limit software radio
RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID--Part III
Under the Hood: Evolution of the smart phone
Improving multi-carrier PA efficiency using envelope tracking
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for March 3, 2008
Embedded antennas demystified
RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID--Part II
Under the hood: SecurID fob: single-chip safety net
Radio Architectures, Pt 3: Intermodulation and Intercept Points
New ways to measure torque
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for February 25, 2008
RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID--Part I
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for February 18, 2008
Under the Hood: When is a chip not a chip?
Under the Hood: Guitar Hero jams go wireless
What's in an RF Front End?
Under the Hood: Cordless phone's next phase
Making sense of low-power wireless network standards
Under the Hood: CSR evolves along with Bluetooth
Semiconductor choices for RF devices
DACs for DSP, part 3: Direct digital synthesis (DDS)
Understanding RF power amplifiers
"Also of Interest" and "Elementals" for January 21, 2008
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