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Today, most converter circuits now include semiconductors and switches made of silicon carbide (SiC) instead of plain old silicon (Si). In this post, Knowles dives into the advantages of using snubber circuits to protect SiC-based converters and discusses how to further increase efficiencies by focusing on capacitor selection.

Today's Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and soon-to-come 7 provide low latency and a higher data capacity. In this article, Jeff Lin explores today's Wi-Fi standards and features being executed across Asia — assisting engineers to design better and faster wireless connectivity applications.

Equipment suppliers are searching for ways to provide low-cost, multi-protocol interfaces that can be quickly provisioned for use. Expected levels of quality paired with performance and flexibility requirements of network interfaces are increasing, creating a need for more sophisticated and efficient test techniques to guarantee hardware functionality and design margin.

Over the last decade, unmanned aerial vehicles and systems (UAVs/UASs) — also referred to as drones — have become widely popular and gained significant interest in commercial, consumer, and government markets. As these technologies are evaluated, radar performance and versatility should be among key criterion, factoring more than just the cost of the hardware.

This document describes the approach of a waveform-specific, on-site characterization of the analyzer. For each waveform and frequency of interest, the instrument is evaluated in a first step. With this additional data, a fast and repeatable auto-levelling can be performed during the actual measurement.

Gallium nitride (GaN) is widely viewed as a transformative technology that has enabled smaller, lighter, and more reliable RF/microwave devices than its predecessors. However, there are trade-offs to consider when selecting which technology to use for a particular application. 

New RFSoC technologies add RF-class analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog data converters to Xilinx’s family of FPGAs. This white paper looks at current trends in data converters and signal processing to better understand the capabilities of RFSoC and how to best use the technology.

Glass sidewall packages achieve highest levels of hermeticity for hardware in space vacuums and extreme temperatures. Compared to ceramic, they deliver better RF performance thanks to their lower dielectric constant.