RF Amplifiers Featured Articles

  1. Power Indication & Relative Accuracy In Amplifiers 9/29/2021

    The purpose and scope of this document is to explain amplifier power indication (metering) and typical variations associated with frequency sensitivity and bandwidth. Exodus amplifiers with our display/controller provide many monitoring and control functions. 

  2. How To Increase Downstream Bandwidth And Upstream Capabilities 9/20/2021

    This new Qorvo resource discusses CATV Broadband and how to keep the customer base satisfied with more bandwidth.

  3. A Comprehensive Way To Use Bonding For Low Noise Amplifier Performance 9/15/2021

    Is RF engineering a form of black magic? This article analyzes the challenges faced in the development of ADH519S, an 18 GHz to 31 GHz low noise amplifier (LNA), for the aerospace market.

  4. RF Power Amplification 101: Amplifier Classes 9/10/2021

    To understand tradeoffs with wireless application requirements, including efficiency and power consumption, range, and linearity, the first in this series of articles on RF power amplification (PA) essentials deals with basic waveform shapes and the formulae for calculating power supplied, RF output power, and efficiency.

  5. RF Power Amplification 101: Waveform Basics 9/10/2021

    High-power RF generation is required not only by various wireless communication applications, such as 4G and 5G cellular and satellite, but also by radar for airspace and weather monitoring, radar and communication jamming, imaging, DC/DC conversion, and even RF heating.

  6. Need To Increase Your Range By A Factor Of 3? Or A Factor Of 10? Add More Power! 8/6/2021

    Wireless communication relies on a strong received signal for best performance, whether that performance is high data transmission speeds or clarity of analog voice communications. A weak signal leads to higher error rates, leading to a reduction in data throughput and increased noise and static in voice transmissions.

  7. Force Design 2030 8/6/2021

    When you think of the United States Marine Corps, the first thing that comes to mind is the deep-rooted Naval traditions. A Naval Expeditionary Force is the base of how the Marine Corps was established and how they started to build such a polished reputation.

  8. Integrated Hardened DSP On DAC/ADC ICs Improves Wideband Multichannel Systems 7/16/2021

    Over the past several decades, wireless system channel counts and bandwidths have steadily increased. The driving factors for these modern telecommunication, radar, and instrumentation systems are their data rate and overall system performance requirements.

  9. 24 GHz Demorad Radar Solutions Enable New Contactless Sensors 5/4/2021

    24 GHz, silicon-based millimeter wave radar technology is enabling a new generation of real-world, no-contact smart sensors that are increasingly being used in mass market applications such as automotive, UAVs/drones, broad industrial, and consumer. 

  10. Extending Operational Range Of MANET Radios With NuPower XtenderTM Bidirectional Amplifiers 4/22/2021

    Battlefield command and control operations for the field operator have evolved dramatically from early days of WWI utilizing vacuum tubes with a transmit range of 2000 yards to state of the art software define radios (SDR) that transmit voice and data simultaneously with ranges in the kilometers