The proliferation of wireless transceivers in portable applications has led to increased attention to an electronic circuits’ ability to operate in the vicinity of high frequency radio transmitters.

Important efficiency requirements exist on both the handset and the base-station sides of the telecom world. In handsets, efficiency directly translates into battery life. By increasing cell-phone ...

RF interference acts like a light switch. Absent interference, things work fine. However, as soon as interference is present performance comes almost to a grinding halt. Over the past two months I ...

In this article, electromagnetic interference (EMI) will be discussed as it relates to operational amplifiers (op amps) and other amplifiers. We will examine EMI effects on op amps/amplifiers, an EMI ...

This article is part of the TechXchange: Gallium Nitride (GaN). NXP rolled out a family of gallium-nitride (GaN)-based RF power amplifiers (PAs) that uniquely leverages top-side cooling to reduce the ...