Hackaday

Designing An RF Transceiver

[William Dillon] is finishing up his degree. His final project as a student was to design an RF transceiver. He decided to work with the Microchip MRF49XA, which runs around $3 but will cost you $20 ...
Electronic Design

Test Challenges for Transceivers

A common trend in wireless device integration, specifically transceivers, is to incorporate the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) into a single IC or module.
Electronic Design

RF-Sampling Transceivers Enable Multi-Antenna Wideband Systems

Texas Instruments (TI) recently introduced two new radio frequency (RF)-sampling transceivers that the company claims are the first in the industry to integrate four analog-to-digital converters (ADCs ...
EDN

RF transceiver technologies ease PCB design

Renesas has developed two 2.4-GHz RF transceiver technologies that facilitate Bluetooth LE operation in IoT devices. Presented at this year’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the company ...
Business Wire

Analog Devices’ Integrated Transceiver and Support Ecosystem Drive Next-Generation Software-Defined Radio Designs

RF Agile Transceiver provides up to three times the noise performance of competition and significantly reduces BOM cost. Design kit, FPGA rapid prototyping environment reduce design times and risk.
Design-Reuse

HiSilicon and imec collaborate on reconfigurable RF transceivers

Leuven, Belgium, February 27, 2012 – HiSilicon and imec have signed a strategic research collaboration to develop innovative RF transceiver architectures for next-generation mobile terminals. With ...
Nature

An all-digital RF transmitter architecture based on jitter-enhanced PWM for flexible frequency applications

We propose a novel flexible jitter-enhanced pulse width modulation(PWM) hardware architecture, which aims to improve the modulation resolution while reducing the requirement of PWM frequency. The ...
EDN

RF transceivers modified for BLE with impedance tuning

Two new 2.4 GHz RF transceivers for Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) unveiled by Renesas Electronics claim to be the world’s smallest for a device of this type with a circuit area of 0.84 mm 2 including the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Case Study—RF ASIC Validation Of A Satellite Transceiver

ASIC validation in the RF world comes with its own set of hurdles and challenges, with high-quality lab equipment, experience and know-how essential. A recently completed RF sub-system validation at ...
Phys.org

Low power, high performance RF transceiver for wireless smart energy management and remote industrial monitoring

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Cubic Micro today announce that they have developed and demonstrated a 400 MHz radio frequency (RF) transceiver with the highest power efficiency and ...
Business Wire

Analog Devices Launches High Dynamic Range RF Transceiver for Challenging Mission-Critical Communications Applications

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today announced the first product in a new series of RF transceivers offering the highest dynamic range on the market and suitable for ...
Hackaday

Designing A Smarter RF Transceiver

Two months ago we featured a transceiver based on the Microchip MRF49XA, and a lot of feedback was sent to [hpux735] requesting that some brains be added onto the system. [hpux735] decided that if he ...