Mrakshith·Oct 25Your Inductor becomes a Capacitor: Modeling and Measuring Real Inductors with a VNALumped models, self-resonance, and why the 2-port series-through method is the right way to measure an RF inductor.
Felix Lai·Oct 8Reading an RF Transceiver Datasheet: What the Numbers Actually MeanIf you have ever opened a 30-page RF transceiver datasheet and felt your eyes glaze over by page four, you are not alone. These documents…
Lesile Guo·Sep 30The JESD204B Link Is Up. Is the Receiver Still Passing?A practical AD9208 second-source review from part code to RF acceptance
Lesile Guo·Sep 23Before You Call an RF Transceiver a Second Source, Put It on the BoardA practical SDR evaluation checklist for RF, software, hardware and sourcing teams.
Sichuan ZR Hi-Tech Ltd.·Sep 18What Are Spurious Interference, Intermodulation Interference, and Blocking Interference?Spurious interference is mainly caused by insufficient receiver sensitivity. The output signal of a transmitter is usually a high-power…
Petrolmarca Srl·Sep 3Two N-type coaxial connectors facing each other across a gap, centre pin and centre socket visible…Five checks before it costs you a site visit
Asif Alam·Aug 3Moore’s Law for RF: The Pattern Hidden in Four Decades of Wireless ProgressAfter studying more than 1,000 published works, we found that the frontier of RF technology may have a rhythm of its own.
Michael Schwarm·Jun 13RF Is Dead (Or at Least Finally Fading): The Collapse of the RF ChainFor most of my career, “RF is dead” was more of a talking point than anything real. But over the last five to ten years, the underlying…
Gunaratneisuri·May 20Pulling Data from the Sky: Building an ADS-B Demodulator from ScratchTurning raw radio static into live aircraft coordinates using Software-Defined Radio and a custom C++ engine.
Sasiru·May 19Turning Radio Static into Aircraft Coordinates: Our SDR JourneyA step-by-step breakdown of how we calculated a custom 1090 MHz antenna, built a C++ decoding engine, and tracked flights in real-time.