2026-10-20 16:00:00
Passive Wireless SAW Resonator Sensors: Interrogation Logic, New Applications and Domestic Alternatives
How a chip with no battery, no antenna electronics and no maintenance reports temperature, pressure...
2026-10-20 15:00:00
Broadband Distributed Amplifier MMICs: Decade-Bandwidth Gain for Instruments and Wideband Receivers, and Domestic Alternatives
Why travelling-wave amplifiers hold flat gain from near-DC to tens of gigahertz while conventional stages...
2026-10-20 14:00:00
IQ Modulators and Demodulators: Application Logic of Vector Up- and Down-Conversion and Domestic Alternatives
How a pair of balanced mixers turns baseband I and Q into a modulated carrier:...
2026-10-20 13:00:00
Ceramic Chip Antennas and Active Antenna Modules: Selection Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
Why the cheapest radiating part in the bill of materials decides whether your radio works:...
2026-10-18 20:00:00
UHF Wireless Microphone Front Ends: Frequency Agility, Diversity Reception and Domestic Alternatives
What keeps a live vocal clean across a crowded spectrum: wireless-microphone transmitter and receiver application...
2026-10-18 19:00:00
RF-over-Fiber Analog Links: Antenna Remoting, Link Budgets and the Chips Inside, with Domestic Alternatives
Why fibre replaced coax between antennas and equipment rooms: analog optical link application logic, gain,...
2026-10-18 18:00:00
Programmable Attenuators and Switch Matrices in RF Production Test: Design Logic and Domestic Alternatives
The unsung infrastructure of every RF production line: how step attenuators, PIN-diode pads and switch...
2026-10-18 17:00:00
RF MEMS Switches and Tunable Capacitors: When a Mechanical Contact Beats a Transistor, and Domestic Alternatives
Why a microscopic metal bridge outperforms a million-transistor switch for linearity and loss: MEMS switching...
2026-10-18 16:00:00
Bias Tees and DC Blocks: Feeding Power Into an RF Line Without Corrupting the Signal
The two-port network every antenna and amplifier depends on: bias-tee application logic from LNB feeds...
2026-10-18 15:00:00
NFC Tag ICs for Authentication and Traceability: Application Logic, New Features and Domestic Alternatives
What a passive chip costing cents can prove about a product: NFC tag selection logic...
2026-10-18 14:00:00
Digital TV Tuner and Demodulator Front Ends: DVB-S2X and DVB-T2 Application Logic, Trends and Domestic Alternatives
Why the humble tuner can still make or break a broadcast receiver: silicon-tuner architecture, the...
2026-10-18 13:00:00
Satellite Direct-to-Device Links: The RF Chipset Behind NTN IoT Terminals and Domestic Alternatives
How a handset-grade NB-IoT modem learns to talk to a satellite 600 km overhead: the...
