In our last video at IMS 2018, Steve Reyes from Anritsu Company demonstrates the ability to perform differential noise figure measurements with the VectorStar VNA. Check out the full video for the complete measurement process, as well as the benefits this approach has to offer.
Michael Zeihl, Vice President and General Manager of MACOM, took time out of his afternoon at IMS 2018 to talk to us about choosing the optimal semiconductor vendor for 5G applications. To help avoid costly mistakes and time delays, a vendor should have a wide range of available technologies, deep application knowledge and understanding, and the capability to collaborate at all stages of a product’s production process. Check out the video for more information.
Jeff Broxson of Guerrilla RF discusses the issue the growing issue of product obsolescence in the RF industry. Check out the video for more information on possible solutions.
Have you wondered how you can stand above the rest to be hired at an engineering firm? What qualifications are often overlooked in the interview process? This morning at IMS 2018, Wendy Shu, Vice President at SAGE Millimeter, talked to us in detail about what firms are looking for when hiring new engineers. Check out the video for the top three overlooked qualifications that firms are looking for in candidates.
GaN provides opportunities for solutions with wider bandwidth while reducing the need to replace TWT amplifiers with solid-state amplifiers. This afternoon at IMS 2018, Apet Barsegyan from Integra discusses solutions for the challenges in upgrading current TWTs in high-power radar and pulsed applications to the newest solid-state GaN HEMT technologies.
A common problem in wideband systems is the roll-off of components as they go higher in frequencies. Christopher Gregoire from Custom MMIC discusses how to simplify the designs for these wideband systems, and maximize SWaP-C in all applications with the use of positive gain slope amplifiers.
Engineers are often challenged with the limited linearity associated with high power amplifiers. So where do these issues get solved? Instead of using traditional solutions like adding waveform generators or multiple broadband amplifiers, new super-linear amplifier technologies will be able to reduce harmonics, eliminate the external filter and its insertion loss, and save on time and money. Watch this video with George Bollendorf from Empower RF to learn more about what this new amplifier architecture will look like, as well as the benefits it will offer for many different applications.
This afternoon at IMS 2018, Brian Walker from Copper Mountain Technologies illustrates the use of 1-port VNAs to make multi-port measurements for LTE and 5G applications that have multiple antennas and frequencies in one package.
With 5G evolving to higher frequencies, engineers are often challenged with the density and phase stability in newly designed products. Chris Cox of W. L. Gore & Associates discusses these challenges and present us with a number of possible testing solutions.
Lawrence Wilson and Richard Pieciak from Rohde & Schwarz introduce the SMW Signal Generator and FSW Spectral Analyzer as high-performance component testing solutions for 5G NR signals in all frequency ranges. Watch the video for more information on these solutions.
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