The European journal for the microwave
and
wireless design engineer
August - September 2005
Wireless
and Personal Networking
Wireless networking looks to the next generation of innovation to
deliver pervasive PAN and LAN/WLAN coverage.
Power
Amplifier Roundup
Using
Behavioural Models to Drive RF Design and Verify System
Performance
A new generation of software tools for Model-Based Design is enabling
the creation of system-level models that system architects can use to
evaluate the RF design specification in a flexible design environment
that allows information to flow both top-down and bottom-up. Before,
during and after the circuitry for the components and modules is
being designed, the same system-level model can incorporate ever more
refined performance information in order to determine the impact on
system-level performance. This new approach makes it possible to find
and fix system level problems much earlier in the design cycle, when
they can be quickly and inexpensively corrected.
Sensitive
Performance from a Good All-Rounder - A Broadband Isotropic Antenna
for Selective Safety Measurements in Electromagnetic
Fields
The advertising blurb might call it a "no-compromise" design. In
reality, though, it is only by carefully balancing compromises that
it is possible to design a measuring antenna suitable for everyday
use. You cannot bend the physical laws, but you can make good use of
them.
Bridging
the Gap from System Design to RFIC
Implementation
The demand on mobile communications has grown over the last years.
Today's mobile communications systems use sophisticated signal
processing to achieve high transmission rates. The challenges for
next generation wireless systems will increase even further, when
designs must be targeted to multi-standard and reconfigurability
approaches. Evaluations of various integration strategies must be
performed to verify the feasibility of the proposed integration
approach, where issues such as performance, cost, and risk need to be
considered.
