Noise has always been important to communications experts, but it’s quickly becoming an issue that every semiconductor designer has to contend with. Some chips already have been compromised. Noise can ...

Satellite communication plays a critical role in our interconnected world, serving as an important conduit for the transmission of information across vast distances. Channel capacity is an important ...

Sensors monitoring mechanical and biological systems must often scavenge power from the thing being sensed. The oscillator circuits shown here let you operate those sensors. Sensor circuits that ...

This paper describes the measurement of additive/residual phase noise of power amplifiers or multipliers for automotive radar sensors at 80 GHz using the interferometric measurement approach in ...

Noise occurs in various forms, including thermal noise, flicker noise, and phase noise. Voltage-controlled SAW oscillators (VCSOs) can significantly improve radar system phase-noise performance.

The two persons above are the geniuses who gave us two classic oscillator circuits as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 The two classic oscillators circuits: Colpitts (left) and Clapp (right). However, a ...

Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) have a difficult challenge. On one side, they need to be stable with low values of detrimental characteristics such as phase noise, jitter, and drift. On the ...

Former Marin Academy soccer standout Cami Colpitts helped Washington University in St. Louis advance to the NCAA Division III national semifinals. Colpitts has scored four goals with four assists this ...

A noise figure consolidates the effects of various noise types to provide a single specification for the noise performance of a component or system. Phase noise results from some of the underlying ...