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The aperture effect rolls off high message frequencies in flat-top PAM. Here’s how pulse duration limits that…

The aperture effect rolls off high message frequencies in flat-top PAM. Here’s how pulse duration limits that distortion to under 0.5% and when an equalizer helps.

Flat-top PAM holds each sample’s amplitude for the pulse duration, weighting the spectrum with a sinc function.…

Flat-top PAM holds each sample’s amplitude for the pulse duration, weighting the spectrum with a sinc function. Here’s how that weighting leads to the aperture effect.

Two transceivers and a family of endpoints with integrated transceivers add to Microchip’s single pair Ethernet portfolio.

Two transceivers and a family of endpoints with integrated transceivers add to Microchip’s single pair Ethernet portfolio.

Multiplying a message by a pulse train replicates its spectrum at every harmonic. See why a 1/3 duty cycle and 4x…

Multiplying a message by a pulse train replicates its spectrum at every harmonic. See why a 1/3 duty cycle and 4x oversampling stretch the bandwidth roughly 12-fold.

Interference in FM grows stronger with frequency offset, until pre-emphasis flattens the curve. See why a signal just…

Interference in FM grows stronger with frequency offset, until pre-emphasis flattens the curve. See why a signal just twice as strong as a rival broadcast can completely capture the channel.

Nordic Semiconductor's nRF54LC10A combines Bluetooth LE, Thread, Zigbee, and Matter support with low power consumption…

Nordic Semiconductor's nRF54LC10A combines Bluetooth LE, Thread, Zigbee, and Matter support with low power consumption and advanced security in a compact package for IoT devices.

Pre-emphasis and de-emphasis boost noise performance in FM, but only up to a point—push the gain too far and you risk…

Pre-emphasis and de-emphasis boost noise performance in FM, but only up to a point—push the gain too far and you risk overmodulation.

Simple first-order pre-emphasis and de-emphasis filters can boost FM receiver SNR by more than 13 dB by exploiting the…

Simple first-order pre-emphasis and de-emphasis filters can boost FM receiver SNR by more than 13 dB by exploiting the spectral differences between signal and noise.

The new members deliver fourth generation LoRa Plus IP-core compatible performance at less stringent tiers to complement…

The new members deliver fourth generation LoRa Plus IP-core compatible performance at less stringent tiers to complement flagship LR2021.

Worked examples quantify just how much the FMFB loop shrinks noise bandwidth. We also show how the PLL demodulator offers…

Worked examples quantify just how much the FMFB loop shrinks noise bandwidth. We also show how the PLL demodulator offers a simpler alternative for reducing threshold.

The new evaluation kits aim to lower the barrier for on-device AI development with Alif’s AI/ML hardware-accelerated…

The new evaluation kits aim to lower the barrier for on-device AI development with Alif’s AI/ML hardware-accelerated Ensemble and Balletto MCUs.

While feedback lowers the FM detection threshold, it offers no noise advantage over conventional receivers when the…

While feedback lowers the FM detection threshold, it offers no noise advantage over conventional receivers when the carrier power is strong. Discover why in this discussion and mathematical analysis.

By closing a feedback loop around the demodulator, the FMFB architecture narrows the noise bandwidth and lowers the FM…

By closing a feedback loop around the demodulator, the FMFB architecture narrows the noise bandwidth and lowers the FM threshold, without improving SNR at high CNR.

Companies across industries are leveraging tech from NXP, MaxLinear and Nordic Semiconductor on automotive UWB,…

Companies across industries are leveraging tech from NXP, MaxLinear and Nordic Semiconductor on automotive UWB, accelerated OpenZFS storage, and low-power Bluetooth Mesh sensing.

The rebuilt platform puts the previously closed cloud backend under an Apache 2.0 license and runs on AWS serverless…

The rebuilt platform puts the previously closed cloud backend under an Apache 2.0 license and runs on AWS serverless services in a customer's own account.

Working through examples shows how the threshold effect reshapes FM design choices. See how ignoring it can undershoot…

Working through examples shows how the threshold effect reshapes FM design choices. See how ignoring it can undershoot the required carrier power by over 5x for the same target SNR.

Joaquin Torrecilla, Keysight’s VP of Software Transformation, joins the show to discuss the evolution of wireless…

Joaquin Torrecilla, Keysight’s VP of Software Transformation, joins the show to discuss the evolution of wireless tech—from early Bluetooth to LEO satellite lasers, RedCap, and AI-native 6G.

The standard FM SNR equation breaks down once the carrier-to-noise ratio drops below a critical threshold, revealing a…

The standard FM SNR equation breaks down once the carrier-to-noise ratio drops below a critical threshold, revealing a hard limit on trading bandwidth for noise performance.

The EFR32BG2B SoC family supports Bluetooth 6 and is the lowest power Bluetooth LE chip with channel sounding from Silicon Labs.

The EFR32BG2B SoC family supports Bluetooth 6 and is the lowest power Bluetooth LE chip with channel sounding from Silicon Labs.