With so much attention on IBOC, it is appropriate to step back and review the basic principles of RF amplifiers. The radio transmitter is a collection of stages. Each stage modifies the signal in some ...

Sponsored by IDT: What should you look for in a good RF gain block for wireless design? Here are some recommendations. What every RF design engineer needs these days is a good all-purpose IC RF ...

The RF power amplifier stage is usually the final active block of any electronic system that is transmitting RF power. Relatively low power RF signals are amplified to produce a more powerful signal ...

A class-A amplifier is defined as an amplifier that is biased so that the output current flows at all times. Thus, the input signal-drive level to the amplifier is kept small enough to avoid driving ...

To address the stringent requirements of the latest microwave and mmWave testing, Siglent has increased the addressable frequency range of its RF signal generators to 40GHz. The SSG6000A has a wide ...

If you’ve ever used an RF signal analyzer, you’re probably used to seeing displays like the spectrum graph or constellation plot. Of course, trusting the answers you get from the instrument often ...

ADL5580 is a SiGe dc to 10.0GHz differential-in differential-out gain block from Analog Devices, which has a digital bus for signal path tweaking. “The amplifier offers a referred-to-input noise ...