Mixed Signal/Analog

International Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave solutions provider, NuWaves Engineering has announced the completion of the IRaD phase for their newest miniaturised 10W C-band Bidirectional Amplifier (BDA), to be added to their line of NuPower Xtender Bidirectional Amplifier products. 

  Paul Golata, Mouser, talks about shaping smarter cities, farming against the grain and intelligent analogue solutions for smart agriculture in deep space.

Global wireless and broadcast infrastructure specialist, Radio Frequency Systems has announced a new manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China which is now in full operation. The facility was built to meet global demand for RFS’ base station antennas (BSAs) and filters, and to enable RFS to bring more innovative manufacturing techniques and more advanced research and development (R&D) to China and the rest of the world.

A new line of E and W-band PIN diode waveguide switches has been launched by provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, Pasternack. These SPST and DPDT millimetre wave waveguide switches are reflective designs that operate over an ultra-broadband frequency range with fast switching performance. 

  Pickering Interfaces has expanded its 40-785B PXI Microwave Multiplexers range with new 50GHz modules. These new modules are single or dual 6-channel multiplexers with relays mounted on the front panel.

We have heard a lot about the digital switchover recently, but now it turns out it has come in use in more ways than one. The TV broadcast frequencies that were leftover from the switchover are going to plug the broadband gap in a part of rural Monmouthshire. This pilot scheme will see TV white space used to send a high-speed broadband signal from a standard mast.

To increase battery life and efficiency, the MAX77650 / MAX77651 power management ICs (PMICs) from have been laucnhed by Maxim Integrated. Now designers of Bluetooth headphones, activity monitors, smart garments, smartwatches, and other size-constrained devices no longer need to worry about battery time.

With dedication and a creative approach, University College London (UCL) research is helping to address the world's most urgent problems. Whether designing healthier cities or grappling with issues such as global health and climate change, the challenges of daily life inspire UCL students and academics

  Written by op amp experts Art Kay and Tim Green, the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference covers a wide variety of popular precision signal chain topics – from op amp bandwidth and stability to analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue conversions and more. 

  The release of the SoftConsole version 5.1 has been announced by Microsemi Corporation as the world’s first available Windows-hosted Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) for designs utilising RISC-V open instruction set architectures (ISAs) such as RV32I.