Is plain old FR-4 (also known as “Glass Epoxy”) PCB material suitable for use in RF designs[1]? This question comes up time and again. Many say no, fewer say yes – who's right? As I have published ...

What is software defined radio (SDR) and how does it benefit modern communications and RF applications? RF/microwave PCB design for Radar and SDRs. Challenges of SDR PCB design and ways to overcome ...

EW Daily News 25/03/2004 09:38:26 – Inventor rolls up RF filters with flexi PCB to cut costs Swedish engineer Nikolai Roshchupkin has invented a novel way of making RF filters. At an early stage of ...

Ansys ANSS and SynMatrix have joined forces in an OEM partnership to simplify RF filter design workflows for wireless communication applications. SynMatrix is a leading provider of RF filter design ...

When it comes to communication systems, differential circuits can always provide better performance over single-ended circuits. They can provide higher linearity, immunity to common mode interference ...

As anyone who is a veteran of many RF projects will tell you, long component leads can be your undoing. Extra stray capacitances, inductances, and couplings can change the properties of your design to ...

While there’s little in the way of hard rules dictating what constitutes a cyberdeck, one popular opinion is that it should be a piecemeal affair — a custom rig built up of whatever high-tech detritus ...