White Paper: Say What? My Cross-Talk Problem Is At The Component Level? A Filter, You Say?

The oft-neglected filter takes on renewed significance for system engineers designing RF and microwave products. An industry expert offers tips to avoid interference.

The devil is in the details. For system engineers who work for U.S.-based manufacturers of RF and microwave products, that seems to be the message they are painfully discovering. As their products get rushed into the marketplace and put to the test by wireless service providers and consumers, shortcomings in frequency management come home to roost in the form of noise, cross-talk, signal dropouts and even complete transmission interruption. While the product design holds up under scrutiny on paper, test engineers are increasingly rooting out the source of the problem, and oftentimes the solution turns out to be one single component: the filter.