EDN

A checklist for designing RF-sampling receivers

The modern, advanced CMOS direct radio frequency (RF)-sampling data converter has been eagerly awaited by system design engineers for several major end-equipment manufacturers. This includes ...
Design-Reuse

An Introduction to Direct RF Sampling in a World Evolving Towards Chiplets - Part 1

Growing demands in wideband radio and wireless communication deployments are imposing the necessity of a proper radio architecture capable of providing solid performance, more flexibility, in addition ...
Electronic Design

Fast ADC Facilitates Direct RF Sampling at Higher Frequencies

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

FPGA-based design yields low-cost arbitrary-frequency generator

Many systems divide a crystal frequency by an integer number to generate clock signals. Unfortunately, the integer divisor limits the available set of output frequencies. Applications such as ...
Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 3)

A special technique produces very wide loop BWs in high-frequency PLLs (and hence, indirect (PLL) synthesizers), thereby achieving very low phase noise rivaling that of direct (MMD) synthesizers. A ...