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The next Silicon Valley

June 12, 2009

The next Silicon Valley? You’re kidding, right? Google the phrase, and you’ll find an archive of old stories with titles like "India likely to be the next Silicon Valley," "Could the next Silicon Valley be in a developing country?" "Is Vietnam the next Silicon Valley?" Or my favorite: "Could Silicon Valley be the next Detroit?" [...]

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Radio Architectures, Pt 2: Receivers, LOs, and Mixers

May 28, 2009

By Christopher Bowick The following is excerpted from Chapter 8 from a new edition of the book, RF Circuit Design, 2e by Christopher Bowick. You Can buy the book HERE Moving up the scale in complexity, we come to the next evolutionary RF architecture: the tuned-radio-frequency (TRF) receiver (see Fig. 8-6). This early design was [...]

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Understand Radio Architectures, Part 1

May 21, 2009

The fundamental operation of an RF front end is fairly straightforward: it detects and processes radio waves that have been transmitted with a specific known frequency or range of frequencies and known modulation format. The modulation carries the information of interest, be it voice, audio, data, or video. The receiver must be tuned to resonate [...]

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What’s in an RF Front End?

May 21, 2009

The following is excerpted from Chapter 8 from a new edition of the book, RF Circuit Design, 2e by Christopher Bowick. Order the Book here http://www.rfengineer.net/rf-books/ The RF front end is generally defined as everything between the antenna and the digital baseband system. For a receiver, this “between” area includes all the filters, low-noise amplifiers [...]

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Please Help John Kanzius – RF-Induced Hyperthermia Device

May 2, 2009

If you can help one of readers build a John Kanzius – RF-Induced Hyperthermia Device. See post http://www.rfengineer.net/rf-induced-hyperthermia-need-help-building-this/ Please contact Victoria hicksv3@aol.com

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