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Understanding Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Understanding Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) are at the core of modern RF systems, enabling everything from 5G and radar to satellite communications and high-speed digital interfaces. Discover why understanding VCO fundamentals and characterization is essential for designing and testing reliable, high-performance electronic systems.


Coaxial Cables and Cable Assemblies: Ensuring Signal Integrity with Advanced Coax Solutions

Coaxial Cables and Cable Assemblies: Ensuring Signal Integrity with Advanced Coax Solutions

Choosing the right coaxial cable is essential to maintaining signal integrity and reliable performance. This white paper explains how key factors such as impedance, frequency, attenuation, temperature, flexibility, and cable size influence cable and cable-assembly selection.


High-Reliability Signal Conditioning for Pressure and Force Sensors

High-Reliability Signal Conditioning for Pressure and Force Sensors

Learn how integrated signal conditioning improves the accuracy, stability, diagnostics, and reliability of pressure and force sensors in demanding systems.


Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Maneuvering in Modern Electronic Warfare

Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Maneuvering in Modern Electronic Warfare

Learn how electronic warfare teams turn RF signals and sensor data into an operational advantage.


Millimeter Wave Measurements with Vector Network Analyzers

Millimeter Wave Measurements with Vector Network Analyzers

Learn how VNAs and mmWave converters simplify complex device characterization, from setup and calibration to linear and nonlinear measurements.


A Faster Approach to Advanced Eye Diagram Analysis

A Faster Approach to Advanced Eye Diagram Analysis

See how eye diagram analysis can speed compliance testing and provide deeper insight into signal quality issues in high-speed interfaces.


Testpoint Manager

Testpoint Manager

Design for test with confidence using Altium Testpoint Manager, a centralized solution for assigning and managing PCB testpoints with speed and precision. Explore how to improve test coverage, reduce debugging time and streamline the path from design to production. Read the guide to learn more.


Mixer Technology for Advanced Communications, Part 2: Mixer Design

Mixer Technology for Advanced Communications, Part 2: Mixer Design

Explore practical RF mixer design techniques — from frequency planning to system-level analysis — to optimize performance, minimize spurs, and validate 5G/6G architectures.


20 GHz Direct Sampling: All in One Nyquist—Part 1: Challenges and Approaches

20 GHz Direct Sampling: All in One Nyquist—Part 1: Challenges and Approaches

Discover how 20 GHz direct sampling enables wideband RF capture in a single Nyquist zone, simplifying receiver design while addressing key performance and architectural challenges.


How to Select the Best ADC for Radar Phased Array Applications

How to Select the Best ADC for Radar Phased Array Applications

Learn how to choose the right ADC for radar phased arrays by balancing resolution, sample rate, noise, and power for stronger overall system performance.


Understanding High Speed ADC Testing and Evaluation

Understanding High Speed ADC Testing and Evaluation

High-speed ADCs are critical in communications, data acquisition, and signal processing systems, and require precise testing to ensure low noise, high accuracy, and reliable performance. This application note from Analog Devices explains dynamic and static test methods, including FFT analysis, dither testing, noise power ratio, and full-power bandwidth measurements, while highlighting the use of the HSC-ADC-EVALC platform with VisualAnalog and SPIController software.


High Performance, Dual IF Sampling Receiver

High Performance, Dual IF Sampling Receiver

Dual IF sampling receivers are critical in cellular base stations and wireless systems for converting high-frequency RF signals into precise digital data, while addressing challenges like impedance matching, noise reduction, and antialiasing. In this application note, learn how Analog Devices’ design combines a dual mixer, variable gain amplifier, dual 14-bit ADC, and low-jitter clock synthesizer with a fourth-order antialiasing filter to achieve 153.6 MHz IF sampling at 122.88 MSPS and 79.6 dBc spurious-free dynamic range.


MHO/DHO5000 Series Digital Oscilloscope Application Guide for Bode Plot Function

MHO/DHO5000 Series Digital Oscilloscope Application Guide for Bode Plot Function

Download the application guide to master Bode plot analysis and optimize the stability of your switching power supply designs.


Streamlining Design-to-Manufacture for Imaging Devices Tutorial

Streamlining Design-to-Manufacture for Imaging Devices Tutorial

In this tutorial, we introduce onsemi’s PRISM platform, a pre-optimized reference imaging solution that streamlines camera design by integrating sensors, optics, interfaces, and image processing. It explains how PRISM simplifies system integration through standardized modules, tuned ISP configurations, and validated performance testing using components like the AP1302 co-processor and Demo3 evaluation platform. The tutorial also highlights PRISM’s support for Hyperlux CMOS image sensors and its broad processor ecosystem compatibility.


A Signal Integrity Guide to HSD PCB Design

A Signal Integrity Guide to HSD PCB Design

Download this comprehensive guide and get a blueprint for mastering Signal Integrity fundamentals in complex, high-speed PCB systems.


Digital Predistortion for Improved EVM Performance

Digital Predistortion for Improved EVM Performance

This document provides a comprehensive guide on how signal and spectrum analyzers can be used to create a Hammerstein model for the vector signal generator's output stage, and subsequently addresses the inherent non-linearities characteristics.


Ensure Long Life Code with VTI’s RESTful Driverless Software

Ensure Long Life Code with VTI’s RESTful Driverless Software

Future-Proof Your Test Systems: Discover Driverless Control with VTI’s RESTful Software Traditional driver-based architectures are holding your test systems back—creating costly dependencies and risking obsolescence. Learn how VTI’s RESTful approach delivers platform independence, scalability, and long-term reliability.


Electromagnetic Environmental Simulation for EW Systems — Part 3

Electromagnetic Environmental Simulation for EW Systems — Part 3

Master AoA calibration with precise multi-channel alignment using vector network analysis.


Electromagnetic Environmental Simulation for EW Systems — Part 2

Electromagnetic Environmental Simulation for EW Systems — Part 2

Learn how to architect synchronized, multi-emitter simulations for accurate EW receiver testing.


onsemi & EBV Image Sensor Portfolio Guide

onsemi & EBV Image Sensor Portfolio Guide

Discover how onsemi image sensors enable smarter machines through advanced imaging for drones, robotics, machine vision, and surveillance.