Top Stories of the Week: October 28, 2024

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Here's some of the latest tech advancements, products, industry insights, and design solution articles.

These are some of the latest stories on Microwaves & RF. We've got the second of a series of articles on basics of radar technology as well as details on an OTA test platform for Wi-Fi 7 devices in a MIMO environment.

Technology Advancements

Active components

WR90 Waveguide Switch Touts Versatility Plus TTL Interface

With up to four indicator circuits or inhibits and alternatives to traditional latching actuation types, this WR90 waveguide switch can serve multiple use cases.

Anritsu and Bluetest to support MIMO OTA measurements on Wi-Fi 7 devices.

Test & Measurement

Test Platform Supports MIMO OTA Measurements on Wi-Fi 7 Devices

Anritsu and Bluetest combined recent product upgrades to create an OTA measurement solution in a MIMO environment.

Test & Measurement

Lab Validation Setup Aids in Characterizing RF Power Amplifiers

Accurate RF power amplifier characterization is critical for ensuring optimal system performance, especially at 5G frequencies, and Emerson NI’s tools simplify this process for...

Digital semiconductors

AI Acceleration Co-Processor Claims Lowest Power Operation

The fully digital, event-based, brain-inspired Akida Pico helps usher in compact, ultra-low-power intelligent devices.

Design Solutions

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Systems

The Basics of Radar Technology (Part 2)

Explore radar’s development trajectory and how the shift to element-level digital phased arrays is spurring trends that impact component selections.

Test & Measurement

SMPS Evaluation (Part 1): Measuring Voltage Ripple and Switching Nodes

The article discusses key lab techniques for evaluating switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) and how to accurately measure voltage ripple and switch node using the right oscilloscope...

Analog

Design Parameters for a Wideband, Second-Harmonic Gunn Oscillator

Here’s a simple technique for designing and building a microwave broadband oscillator based on the venerable Gunn diode.

Communications

How to Supervise and Monitor RF-over-Fiber Links

Even as RF over fiber (RFoF) technology provides secure, resilient, long-distance data transmission, it’s a technology that’s short on standards. Learn how to get the most out...

Industry Insights

Defense

DoD Adds Second Ovzon Mobile Satellite Terminal

The Ovzon T7 terminal works with the Ovzon 3 satellite to provide critical communications at transmit rates to 10 Mb/s and reception rates to 40 Mb/s.

Defense

VADR Radar System Adds C-Band Range

The ARTS-V3 VADR system now provides multiple-threat detection within C- and X-band frequency ranges.

Defense

EMC Test Systems Check Combat Vehicles

The R&S ESW series of EMI test receivers provide comprehensive EMC measurement capabilities at HDA’s H-ACE facility.

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Members Only Content

Defense

Electronic Warfare and the Modern Battlefield (Download)

Download this eBook covering various aspects of electronic warfare being deployed on today's battlefields.

Top Stories of the Week Archive

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I am Executive Editor of Microwaves & RF, an all-digital publication that broadly covers all aspects of wireless communications. More particularly, we're keeping a close eye on technologies in the consumer-oriented 5G, 6G, IoT, M2M, and V2X markets, in which much of the wireless market's growth will occur in this decade and beyond. I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, developers, and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy, leaving to rejoin the EOEM B2B publishing world in January 2020. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.