It is fitting in a book about wireless communication to look at the phenomena that lets us transfer information from one point to another without any physical medium—the propagation of radio waves. If you want to design an efficient radio communication system, even for operation over relatively short distances, you should understand the behavior of […]
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MobileContents0.0.0.1 Mobile1 What is Gigabit LTE?2 Is this that 5G thing I keep hearing about?3 So what’s true 5G?4 Does Gigabit LTE mean you’ll get 1 gigabit of data all the time?5 Sounds awesome. How does it work?6 Thanks, now I have a headache.7 OK, so how fast is Gigabit LTE?8 What can I do
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We bet when [devttyS0] made his latest video about RF filter design (YouTube, embedded below), he had the old saying in mind: in theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is. He starts out pointing how now modern tools will make designing and simulating any kind of filter easy, but
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FXUB71 Wide Band Flex 2xMIMO 150mm Ø1.37 The patent pending FXUB71 antenna is an industry leading embedded LTE 2*2 MIMO flexible polymer monopole type antenna for worldwide LTE applications, which also works equally well on 2G and 3G applications. The antenna comes with a micro coax cable and connector, and has good efficiency and isolation
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Peregrine Semiconductor Acquires Arctic Sand Technologies By March 21, 2017 Peregrine Semiconductor, a Murata company and the founder of RF Silicon on Insulator, has recently announced its acquisition of Arctic Sand Technologies, an MIT spin-off that designs and manufactures low-power semiconductors for use in DC-DC power conversion applications. This strategic acquisition is designed to help
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Wilkinson power dividers, commonly used in RF/microwave applications, can achieve high isolation between output ports while also maintaining a good match on all ports. In the application example, “Design of a Reduced Footprint Microwave Wilkinson Power Divider With EM Verification,” National Instruments presents how its AWR Design Environment was utilized to design a Wilkinson power
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In BriefContents0.0.0.1 In Brief1 Help Wanted2 Business Is Booming2.0.0.1 Written By Elon Musk’s space travel company SpaceX is hiring nearly 500 new employees across a variety of departments and locations. The boost is likely thanks, at least in part, to the successful launch of a reusable Falcon 9 rocket last week. Help Wanted If you
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SpaceX just checked off another item on its bucket list on Thursday night. At just after 6:20 p.m. EDT, the private spaceflight company successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a first stage that had previously flown before.* As an added bonus, SpaceX returned it to Earth, landing it upright on a drone ship in
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This story appears in the {{article.article.magazine.pretty_date}} issue of {{article.article.magazine.pubName}}. Subscribe Amazon Echo. FitBit. Even your coffee pot. While you might be thinking “one of these things is not like the other,” they are all examples of the Internet of Things (IoT). They are all everyday objects that can be connected to the internet and be
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Humans contain multitudes. We have a demonstrated ability to work hard, sweat and toil for our daily bread, and, as a society, achieve magnificent feats of science and technology. We’ve literally reached the stars! However, we can also be incredibly lazy pieces of shit. We fight with our roommates over whose turn it is to
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