With so much attention on IBOC, it is appropriate to step back and review the basic principles of RF amplifiers. The radio transmitter is a collection of stages. Each stage modifies the signal in some ...

Recently, several of my clients have been requesting help with pre-compliance testing in the 10 to 50 V/m range, well beyond what the simple TPI or Windfreak RF synthesizers alone can muster. So, I’ve ...

Manufactured on a GaAs process, the QPA9510 RF power amplifier from Qorvo covers a frequency range of 100 MHz to 1 GHz. It delivers +35 dBm P1dB output and up to 34 dB gain, with on-chip analog gain ...