RF & Microwave Engineering Articles for February 19, 2015

Wow, it's been two weeks already since I last posted links to engineering magazine articles. This is not just a random selection of articles; I take a quick look at them all and choose ones that seem like they will appeal to a large cross-section of RF Cafe visitors, and/or articles that have a uniquely interesting topic. Sometimes, just having a really cool picture will motivate inclusion, or if I personally know the author. Nothing against the articles and authors that I don't include, but the purely theoretical and academic types make my head hurt. I also tend to not link to articles that are mostly a glorified advertisement for a product, unless it is especially practical. RF Cafe is mentioned in one of these articles, BTW, so of course it is in the list ;-).

Here is a complete list of all featured RF & microwave articles.

• RF Circuit Design References (p 34), Peter Delos
• Variable Attenuator Blends Dynamic Range, Linearity, Chin Leong Lim
• EM Filter Design Success: The Fast Way, James C. Rautio
• How to Maximize Your Software–Defined Radio's Dynamic Range, Bob Clarke and Kevin Kreitzer
• A Retrospective and a Forecast for the RF Semiconductor Industry (p 22), Eric Higham
• The Inductive Nature of Voltage-Control Loops, Steve Sandler
• What's the Difference Between Noise Terms and Noise Generators?, Jean-Jacques DeLisle
• High Dynamic Range IF Receiver Simplifies Point-to-Point Design, Paul Hendriks
• Bluetooth and ZigBee: A New Standards War Brewing?, Cees Links

Posted  February 19, 2015