The following is excerpted from Chapter 7 from a new edition of the book, RF Circuit Design, 2e by Christopher Bowick. (If you order a copy of this book before March 30, 2008 you can receive ...

The past decade�s build-up of RF ATE for second-generation (2G) cellular transceivers now is testing more than two billion RF devices annually (Figure 1). Next-generation consumer wireless devices ...

Researchers developed a hybrid method to build precise 3D RF microstructures, boosting performance, tunability, and cutting device size by up to 45%. (Nanowerk News) In a leap forward for miniaturized ...

This is the last article in a three-part series discussing the likely impacts of next-generation consumer wireless semiconductor devices on ATE performance requirements. The first article, which ...

The RF device and process technology markets are heating up, especially for two critical components used in smartphones—RF switch devices and antenna tuners. RF device makers and their foundry ...