If you need an amplifier, [Hans Rosenberg] has some advice. Don’t design your own; grab cheap and tiny RF amplifier modules and put them on a PCB that fits your needs. These are the grandchildren of ...

The proliferation of wireless transceivers in portable applications has led to increased attention to an electronic circuits’ ability to operate in the vicinity of high frequency radio transmitters.

Important efficiency requirements exist on both the handset and the base-station sides of the telecom world. In handsets, efficiency directly translates into battery life. By increasing cell-phone ...

In this article, electromagnetic interference (EMI) will be discussed as it relates to operational amplifiers (op amps) and other amplifiers. We will examine EMI effects on op amps/amplifiers, an EMI ...

RF interference acts like a light switch. Absent interference, things work fine. However, as soon as interference is present performance comes almost to a grinding halt. Over the past two months I ...

What every RF design engineer needs these days is a good all-purpose IC RF amplifier. You don’t want to have to design basic circuits like this yourself. Yet the need is always there for a gain block ...