Several years ago, my team was given an assignment to measure RF radiation from Low Power CMOS ICs. In this article, I’ll describe the setup we designed and some of the problems we overcame to measure ...

RF power sensor linearity is a commonly misunderstood topic. To obtain the most accurate power measurements, though, you need to understand what linearity is, the sources of nonlinearity, and how to ...

Yozo Shimada and Kazuhiro Shimaoka, Electromagnetic Waves Division, the Metrology Institute of Japan of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; President: Ryoji ...

The N5530S, successor to the company's 8902A for signal-generator and attenuator calibration, sets new levels of precision for RF and microwave calibration. Featuring a 3-GHz (versus 1.3-GHz) ...

From primitive crystal detectors to today's advanced exponential logarithmic amplifiers, RF power detection has come a long way.