Electronic Design

Efficient Digital RF Power Amp Slashes Basestation Power, Size, And Cost

Blame it on RF power amplifiers. Large and costly, they comprise roughly 40% of a basestation's cost. And since these amplifiers must transmit wide bandwidth signals of various modulation types, ...
Business Wire

Guerrilla RF Power Amplifier Chosen for Impinj RAIN RFID Reader Module Reference Design

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guerrilla RF, Inc. (OTCQX: GUER) today announced that its high-efficiency GRF5509 4-watt power amplifier was selected by Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) for use in their ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RF And Microwave Solid-State Power Amplifiers Design Is A Speciality

It is essential to use a combination of specialized and general CAD tools in RF and microwave solid-state power amplifier design. June 17th, 2020 - By: Wolfspeed, a Cree Company In the world of RF and ...
Electronic Design

RF Power Amp Serves Defense Applications

For defense applications operating over a bandwidth of 25 MHz to 1 GHz, the Model RF-30001 RF power amplifier employs GaN RF power transistors that deliver at least 20W of CW RF output power. For ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Challenges In RF Design

Designing highly integrated components for radio frequency applications poses special challenges for system engineers, designers and the commissioning engineers. The boundary between chip, package and ...
EDN

Linear RF power amp module’s low power consumption optimizes cell phone talk time

South Portland, Maine — Fairchild Semiconductor, a supplier of high performance products that optimize power, announces the RMPA1959, a high performance linear RF Power Amplifier Module (PAM) for CDMA ...
Design-Reuse

Imec achieves record-breaking RF GaN-on-Si transistor performance for high-efficiency 6G power amplifiers

LEUVEN (Belgium), June 12, 2025— Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has set a new benchmark in RF transistor performance for mobile ...
EDN

Low-Power RF for SOC Design

I’ll be the first to tell you that RF isn’t my thing. I’m a digital guy. However, even someone who lives in Boolean space like me can find things of interest in today’s keynote address on “Low-Power ...
Microwaves & RF

Compact CMOS Op Amp Claims Lowest Circuit Current

According to ROHM, its ultra-compact TLR1901GXZ CMOS op amp is the industry’s lowest operating circuit current. The op amp is ...
Business Wire

Cadence and GlobalFoundries Collaborate on RF and mmWave Design Flow to Accelerate Mobile and 5G Innovation

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that it has collaborated with GlobalFoundries (GF) to accelerate 5G and mobile design innovation through ...
Hackaday

PCB Design Guidelines To Minimize RF Transmissions

There are certain design guidelines for PCBs that don’t make a lot of sense, and practices that seem excessive and unnecessary. Often these are motivated by the black magic that is RF transmission.