2026-10-15 20:00:00
Precision RF Terminations and 50-Ohm Loads: Test-System Hygiene, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
Why every unused RF port needs a proper 50-ohm load: directivity, mixer isolation and switch-fleet...
2026-10-15 19:00:00
Any-Frequency Clock Generator ICs: Multi-Output Timing for Digital RF Systems, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
I2C-configurable clock generator ICs such as Si5351 replace crystals, oscillators and fixed PLLs in digital...
2026-10-15 18:00:00
Discrete GaAs pHEMT Transistors for Low-Noise Design: Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
Designing LNAs from bare pHEMT transistors instead of packaged MMICs: noise matching, bias stability and...
2026-10-15 17:00:00
Watt-Class RF Driver Amplifiers: 50-Ohm High-Linearity Stages, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
How internally matched 50-ohm driver amplifier modules sit between gain blocks and PAs, what separates...
2026-10-15 16:00:00
High-Power PIN Switching Diodes: Antenna and Filter-Bank Switching Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
Externally driven PIN-diode switching for watt-class transmit paths: series and shunt topologies, driver design, MA4P/HSMP-3890/AS179/BAP64...
2026-10-15 15:00:00
Discrete Schottky Diodes for RF Detection and Mixing: Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
Zero-bias detection, harmonic mixing and sampling with discrete Schottky diodes: how to read the datasheet,...
2026-10-15 14:00:00
Temperature-Variable Attenuators: Thermopad Gain-Drift Compensation, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
How passive thermopad chips flatten gain drift across -40 to +85 C in amplifier chains,...
2026-10-15 13:00:00
Varactor Tuning Diodes: VCO and Filter-Tuning Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
How hyperabrupt and abrupt silicon varactor diodes set the tuning range, linearity and phase noise...
2026-10-15 16:00:00
RF Switch ICs for Signal Routing: Broadband SPDT to Matrix Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives to Qorvo / MACOM / Skyworks
How routing switches are judged — loss across hops, isolation where it hurts, speed and...
2026-10-15 19:00:00
AM/FM Digital Radio Receiver Chips: Tuner Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives to Silicon Labs Si473x / Si476x
What a single-chip radio tuner replaces and how to qualify a substitute — sensitivity, band...
2026-10-15 18:00:00
RF Power Stages for ISM and Industrial Systems: 13.56 MHz to 2.45 GHz Application Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives
What an industrial RF power stage must survive — reflected power, ISM spectrum masks, kilowatt-class...
2026-10-15 17:00:00
LTCC Ceramic Filters: Low-Pass, High-Pass and Band-Pass Selection Logic, New Technology and Domestic Alternatives to Mini-Circuits LFCN / HFCN / BFCN
Where LTCC filters beat acoustic filters and how to choose them — cutoffs, rejection at...
