Electronic Design

Reference/Kit Speeds Multi-Band Femtocell RF Transceiver Design

A Quick Start Kit and an optimised reference design are now available for Lime Microsystems’ LMS6002D multi-band, multi-standard RF transceiver IC for femtocells. The Quick Start Kit simplifies ...
Electronic Design

Test Challenges for Transceivers

A common trend in wireless device integration, specifically transceivers, is to incorporate the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) into a single IC or module.
Design-Reuse

HiSilicon and imec collaborate on reconfigurable RF transceivers

Leuven, Belgium, February 27, 2012 – HiSilicon and imec have signed a strategic research collaboration to develop innovative RF transceiver architectures for next-generation mobile terminals. With ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Locking-Based Design-For-Security Methodology To Prevent Piracy of RF transceiver ICs

“We present a locking-based design-for-security methodology to prevent piracy of RF transceiver integrated circuits. The solution is called SyncLock as it locks the synchronization of the transmitter ...
Design-Reuse

Cadence Delivers New RF Design Kit Targeting Customer Design Challenges in Wireless

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- December 12, 2005 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the Cadence® RF (Radio Frequency) Design Methodology Kit, targeted to address key challenges in ...
EDN

RF design in the 21st century

My first job on leaving college was maintaining military radios. I had covered RF theory, but found that the practice was significantly different. The company’s detailed design work was performed at a ...
EDN

Creating a tipping-point product: Analog Devices’ AD9361

We recently had the opportunity ask Tony Montalvo — RF Transceiver Design Engineering Manager for Analog Devices, and the main force behind the creation of the AD9361 RF Agile Transceiver — about the ...