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LEDs - ZigBee

Agilent Technologies

American Microwave

Application notes for variable attenuators.

Analog Devices

Anaren

 Andrei Grebennikov, M/A-COM Eurotec

RF & Microwave Power Amplifier Design

Lecture 1: Nonlinear Active Device Modeling

Lecture 2: Impedance Matching

Lecture 3: PA Design Fundamentals

Lecture 4: High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design

Anritsu App Notes

Downloadable application notes on RF & microwave test methodology.

Antenna Research Associates

Standard Antenna Terms & Related Formulas.

Applied Radio Labs

Group Delay Explanations & Applications.

ARRL

Class-E RF Power Amplifiers, by Nathan O. Sokal, WA1HQC.

ATC Ceramics

Dielectric Aging Phenomenon.

Atmel Corporation

ASIC Design Guidelines.

AVX Corporation

Biology Daily

Capacitor Basics - Definitions and configurations, with some equations and illustrations.

BroadcastPapers.com

Huge Whitepaper Collection.

Carl Lodström

The Noble Art of De-Coupling.

Cisco Systems

Digital Transmission: Carrier-to-Noise, Signal-to-Noise & Modulation Error Ratio - Definitions, equations, images, tutorial.

Colby Instruments

Compliance Engineering

Antenna Pattern Measurement: Concepts and Techniques, part 1, by Dr. Michael D. Foegelle. The first article of this two-part series explores the basic concepts and techniques of antenna pattern measurement and evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of various measurement methods.

CurrentRF

The RFDAC (Radio Frequency Digital to Analog Converter) Breakthrough and Advantages, by Michael Hopkins.

Cushcraft Corporation

Eagleware

GaAs FET Power Amp Simulation.

EDN Access

Battery Handling - Li-Ion, by Matt Schindler.

EDN

Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association (ECA)

EMI Filter Problems? Avoid them with proper installation and selection, by Mark Carter, Dearborn Electronics.

Electronic Design

Clock Requirements for Data Converters - Equations for calculating jitter and phase noise in data converters, by Don Tuite.

Electrostatic Discharge Association

Publications include standards and documents, books, EOS/ESD Symposia proceedings, selected papers and white papers, EOS/ESD Symposia presentations, ESD tutorial and seminar notes.

Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products

Energizer

Application manuals - Alkaline, Carbon Zinc, Manganese Dioxide App Note, NiCad, NiMH, Silver Oxide, Zinc Air.

Evaluation Engineering

The World of the Near Field, by Tom Lecklider.

FCC Office of Engineering and Technology

Adaptive Antenna Tutorial - Spectral Efficiency and Spatial Processing.

Federal Communications Commission FCC

This is a handy troubleshooting guide, mainly for commercial equipment such as television, AM/FM radio, paging systems, VCRs - even doorbell transformers. It was last updated in 1993. Still, it can be useful.

FlexiPanel

Bluetooth Remote Control from Your Mobile Phone. FlexiPanel makes a lot of turnkey modules for ZigBee and Bluetooth applications. Admittedly, this concept does scare me a bit from a terrorist perspective!!!

Freescale Semiconductor

Glen Dash

Designing Enclosures for EMC Compliance. Even though Dr. Dash is an accomplished expositor on Maxwell's Equations, his opening quote here is, "While science has devised new models and computerized methods for EMC design, your best tool for enclosure design may still be your thumb."

On this website you will find an incredibly extensive collection of papers on the subject of EMC/EMI/RFI testing and measurement, anechoic chambers, antennas, Maxwell's Equations, regulatory law, noise control, crosstalk, product liability, and much more.

Granite Island Group

Antenna Basics - In PDF format.

Herley

Application Notes: Attenuators.

High Frequency Electronics

A Review of Key Equalizer Specifications and What They Mean, by Richard Kurzrok.

High Frequency Electronics

Electromagnetic Radiation and Human Health: A Review of Sources and Effects.

HP Journal Online Archive

This appears to be a complete collection of the HP Journal, running from September 1949 (v1. n.1) through February 1998.

Electronic Design

WebEE series of tutorials & primers. Many articles on Amplifiers and Filters, Batteries, Classes in Electronics, CMOS, Communications, Digital Filters, Electrostatics, Microprocessors, Medical, MOSFETs, Motors, Operational Amplifiers, Optoelectronics, PC Related, Phase Locked Loops, Power Conversion, Pressure Sensors, and Printed Circuit Boards.

INGECOM

V / UHF Antenna Design.

International Rectifier App Notes

App notes in .pdf format including motor control, lighting, high voltage ICs, class D audio, automotive, AC-DC, DC-DC, aerospace and defense, general, MOSFET, IGBT, diode, package, thermal.

Intersil

RF Amplifier Design Using HFA3046, HFA3096, HFA3127, HFA3128 Transistor Arrays.

Ivan Boshnakov, Aerial Facilities Limited

First-Time-Right Design Of RF/Microwave Class A Power Amplifiers Using Only S-ParametersA procedure of how to design RF/Microwave Class A power amplifiers in a very efficient and highly accurate manner when the only initial data available are the S-parameters of the transistors.

Johanson Technology

Linx Technologies

Lodestone Pacific

Magnetic Core Design Rules.

M/A-COM

Maxim Integrated Products

MaxStream (now Digi)

XBee Antennas - Practical information regarding the performance of the XBee and XBee-PRO RF Modules.

Maury Microwave

Download application notes relating to Maury products and subjects of interest.

MECA Electronics

Merrimac Industries

Quatrature Hybrids 90° Power Dividers/Combiners 10 kHz to 40 GHz General Information.

Micrel

Antenna Design Tutorial, by Tom Yestrebsky.

Microwave Product Digest

Milmega

Design and Construction of a 6kW Pulsed Amplifier for 1.2-1.4GHz Applications, Corporate Structure Amplifier, Design of a High Power Amplifier to Replace TWTAs in Airborne Applications, CW Amplifiers, Pulsed Amplifier, The Choice is Yours`, Application for Milmega Amplifiers in the Communications Industry.

Motorola

Interference Technical Index

N6CA, ham-radio.com

Antenna Application Notes.

Narda Microwave East

National Semiconductor

ADC Interleaving - Interleaving ADCs for Higher Sample Rates, by Nicholas C. Gray.

National Instruments

Designing Filters Using the Digital Filter Design Toolkit, by Rahman Jamal, Mike Cerna, John Hanks.

National Taiwan University

National Semiconductor

A Tutorial on Applying Op Amps to RF Applications, by National Semiconductor.

Naval Education & Training Professional Development & Technology Center

Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series Module 10 - Introduction to Wave Propagation, Transmission Lines, and Antennas.

Navy's Electrical Engineering Training Series (NEETS)

The entire series downloadable in PDF format.

Nikonians

Battery Selection Guide - Lots of good information on battery chemistries and charge/discharge characteristics.

Optotek

Amplifier Load Mismatch Design Using MMICAD - Application note, by D. Fitzpatrick.

Orban Microwave Products

Antenna application notes from Orban Microwave Products.

Paul Wade W1GHZ

The W1GHZ Online Microwave Antenna Book - Excellent - a good reference for all microwaves.

PowerStream

Battery Chemistry FAQ - Here we discuss different of the battery designs currently used, some of the chemistry involved, and advantages and disadvantages of each design.

Radiotronix

Rayovac

Lifex™ Lithium Coin Cells & FB Encapsulated Lithium Coin Cells - Part 1, application notes & product data sheet.

RF Cafe

RF Design

Rhode & Schwarz

Downloadable list of app notes.

Signal Processing Group, Inc

Bond wire failures ( fusing) in integrated circuits with pulsed currents – an analytical view.

Skyworks

Spinnaker Microwave

Tech-Etch

EMI/RFI Shielding.

Telecontrolli

Antenna Design Considerations.

Texas Instruments

Amplifiers & linear including audio amplifiers, op amps, comparators, current sensing, difference amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, isolation analog amplifiers, logarithmic amplifiers, sensors, sensor conditioning, 4-20mA transmitters, solenoid/valve power drivers (PWM), TEC & pump laser bias.

Texas Instruments

UMR EMC Laboratory Technical Report
Measurement in FR-4

Determining Dielectric Constant and Loss Tangent in FR-4.

University of California

Power Amplifier Design Lectures - ECE 145A/218A, by Professor Steve Long.

University of California

RF Power Amplifier Design - Design and Implementation of a Common Collector Class B RF Power Amplifier in InGaP HBT Technology, by Oliver Isler

University of Guelph

Capacitor history - A very nice introduction to capacitors including history back to Leyden Jar, by Tony van Roon.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Complex Numbers, Phasors & Circuits - Another great PowerPoint presentation from, by Professor Amanogawa.

University of San Diego

Amplifier Design - Design of Microwave Transistor Amplifiers Using S Parameters - EEE 194 RF course material.

University of San Diego, CA

Filter Design, Distributed Element, from Ernie Kim. Periodic structures and equivalent lumped element models.

University of San Diego, CA

Minimum loss attenuator, from Ernie Kim, Reference - RF Design Guide: Systems, Circuits and Equations. Peter Vizmuller.

University of San Diego, CA

RF inductor design, from Ernie Kim.

University of Surrey

A very extensive treatise of many antenna types, including definitions, photos, and examples, by David Jefferies.

University of Surrey

Yagi-Uda Antennas - Tutorial with photographs of actual antennas, by David Jefferies.

UTE Microwave, Inc

Basic Circulator Facts.

Vectron International

Jitter in Clock Sources.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Effect of Admixtures, Chlorides, and Moisture on Dielectric Properties of Portland CementConcrete in the Low Microwave Frequency Range, Thesis by Kiran Pokkuluri

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Ultra-wideband Propagation Measurements and Channel Modeling. DARPA NETEX Program Report on Through-the-Wall Propagation and Material Characterization.

Watkins Johnson

Wenzel Associates

Low Frequency Circulator/Isolator Uses No Ferrite or Magnet, by Charles Wenzel.

Zarlink Semiconductor

GPS Receiver Hardware Design.

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