Electronic Design

Fast ADC Facilitates Direct RF Sampling at Higher Frequencies (.PDF Download)

The critical component in all digital communications receivers is the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC sampling rate, bandwidth, and noise tolerance establishes the specifications and ...
EDN

RF-sampling ADCs for multiband receivers

Editor’s note: Here is another ‘Golden nugget’ from my former TI colleague from my days at TI. I recommend that you observe Keller’s insights—he is an expert in the RF arena. High-speed data ...
EDN

Breakthrough Direct RF-Sampling ADCs from National Semiconductor Revolutionize Radio Architectures

The ADC12Dxx00RF family includes five 12-bit ADCs that enable system designers to eliminate multiple intermediate frequency (IF) down-conversion stages including amplifiers, mixers and filters. A ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Open RAN Direct RF Sampling Radio Transceiver Architectures For Massive MIMO

With the exponential increase in wireless traffic, mobile networks are transformed into more software-driven, virtualized, flexible, intelligent, and energy efficient systems. These trends have ...
Electronic Design

Keep Abreast of RF Filtering Trends (Part 1)

The tasks performed by filters in various RF architectures. Differentiating factors between those architectures. Current trends in filter performance considerations. At any given time, a multitude of ...