EDN

RF design in the 21st century

My first job on leaving college was maintaining military radios. I had covered RF theory, but found that the practice was significantly different. The company’s detailed design work was performed at a ...
EE World Online

Fragmentation in wireless standards: an RF specialist’s analysis

This article delves into this fragmentation in wireless standards, categorizing the main technologies by their capabilities ...
EDN

RF Design with Operational Amplifiers: Part I

Originally, operational amplifiers (op amps) were not thought of as candidates for RF design, but the advent of newer, faster devices has now made them an attractive option for some applications. The ...
Nasdaq

Synopsys (SSYS) & Ansys Jointly Develop New RF Design Flow

Synopsys SNPS recently announced that it has designed a radio frequency (“RF”) design reference flow and design solutions kit (DSK) on Samsung Foundry's 8nm RF low-power FinFET process in ...
Electronic Design

Speed Up and Simplify RF Design

Wireless is everywhere these days. What new electronic product doesn’t have a wireless or a radio-frequency (RF) component today? Chances are you could be designing something that incorporates an RF ...
Design-Reuse

Keysight and Synopsys employ AI for RF design migration

The migration workflow builds on the foundry’s Analog Design Migration (ADM) methodology to streamline the redesign of passive devices and design components to the advanced RF process rules. The ...
New Electronics

Getting to grips with RF design

Radio frequency (RF) and wireless design are considered specialist skills within the electronics industry, so usually, only those involved understand the terminology and critical principles. However, ...
Aviation Today

Chips That Think: RF Design

In the 1980s radio frequency (RF) engineers developed microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits that revolutionized the reliability and controllability of RF systems, while significantly ...
Nasdaq

Cadence Accelerates RF Design with Delivery of New TSMC N16 mmWave Reference Flow

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that Cadence® RFIC solutions support TSMC’s N16RF Design Reference Flow and process design kit (PDK) to ...
Electronic Design

Skyworks Buys Qorvo to Create $22 Billion RF, Analog, and Mixed-Signal Chip Giant

The companies said the deal will bring together their complementary engineering capabilities, creating R&D scale to deliver ...
Business Wire

Guerrilla RF Power Amplifier Chosen for Impinj RAIN RFID Reader Module Reference Design

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guerrilla RF, Inc. (OTCQX: GUER) today announced that its high-efficiency GRF5509 4-watt power amplifier was selected by Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) for use in their ...