National Instruments has announced that it is offering two courses specifically targeted at RF design. RF Fundamentals is a 3 day course that covers a range of topics from overall RF device ...

RF Boot Camp is returning once again to the annual IEEE MTT‑S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), taking place this year at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center on Monday, June 15, 2026.

QUINCY, Ill. — In May, GatesAir will launch a new training program intended to help “younger, IT-educated broadcast engineers” learn to operate and maintain “next-generation TV and radio transmission ...

In Part 2 of RF Fundamentals, we will continue our discussion of measurement challenges associated with the RF signal chain. We will discuss swept tuned and FFT receiver techniques and optimization of ...

With so much attention on IBOC, it is appropriate to step back and review the basic principles of RF amplifiers. The radio transmitter is a collection of stages. Each stage modifies the signal in some ...

Switches, digital and analog attenuators, and limiters each have unique functions that require proper device selection. The design difficulty lies within the parametric translation from diode ...

In Part 3 of RF Fundamentals, we will focus on the challenges related to the need to generate and demodulate analog and digitally modulated signals in the RF signal chain. We’ll review CW signal ...

Designing a system for communication over RF is a dark art. It’s an obscure domain filled with photonmancy, wires going every which way, and imaginary numbers. RF is reserved entirely for wizards. The ...

Evaluating S-parameters and other CW stimulus responses is essential for characterising rf amplifiers. An rf vector network analyser (VNA) plays a critical role for this purpose, and proper ...