Analog Devices: RF/Microwave Instrumentation: Wireless Solutions

The explosive growth in wireless communications has created a need for instrumentation to support design, manufacturing, and installation of these systems. A wide range of instruments exists, including signal and waveform generators, network and spectrum analyzers, and power meters. All of these instruments require precision RF and high-speed converter components, and Analog Devices products provide the necessary performance.

Application Notes

AN-935: Designing an ADC Transformer-Coupled Front End (pdf, 372,159 bytes)

AN-928: Understanding High Speed DAC Testing and Evaluation (pdf, 4,552,534 bytes)

AN-927: Determining if a Spur is Related to the DDS/DAC or to Some Other Source (For Example, Switching Supplies) (pdf, 174,271 bytes)

AN-878: High Speed ADC SPI Control Software (pdf, 599,590 bytes)

AN-877: Interfacing to High Speed ADCs via SPI (pdf, 1,633,101 bytes)

AN-873: Lock Detect on the ADF4xxx Family of PLL Synthesizers (pdf, 212,404 bytes)

AN-849: Using Op Amps as Comparators (pdf, 120,169 bytes)

AN-835: Understanding High Speed ADC Testing and Evaluation (pdf, 1,358,339 bytes)

AN-827: A Resonant Approach to Interfacing Amplifiers to Switched-Capacitor ADCs (pdf, 208,781 bytes)

AN-826: A 2.4 GHz WiMAX Direct Conversion Transmitter (pdf, 427,904 bytes)

AN-808: Multicarrier CDMA2000 Feasibility (pdf, 1,572,239 bytes)
The goal of this application note is to determine the feasibility of implementing a multicarrier CDMA2000 transceiver and what the major subsystem performances must be.

AN-807: Multicarrier WCDMA Feasibility (pdf, 992,463 bytes)

AN-803: Pin Compatible High Speed ADCs Simplify Design Tasks (pdf, 365,050 bytes)

AN-756: Sampled Systems and the Effects of Clock Phase Noise and Jitter (pdf, 298,702 bytes)

AN-742: Frequency Domain Response of Switched-Capacitor ADCs (pdf, 329,461 bytes)

AN-741: Little Known Characteristics of Phase Noise (pdf, 1,719,696 bytes)

AN-737: How ADIsimADC Models an ADC (pdf, 291,797 bytes)

AN-715: A First Approach to IBIS Models: What They Are and How They Are Generated (pdf, 379,082 bytes)

AN-691: Operation of RF Detector Products at Low Frequency (pdf, 797,677 bytes)

AN-588: AD7416/AD7417/AD7418 Power-On Reset Circuit (pdf, 30,326 bytes)
If a large number of decoupling capacitors are used on the VDD line, re-applying power before VDD has discharged to 0 V can cause the AD7416/AD7417/AD7418 to reset into an unknown. state.

AN-586: LVDS Outputs for High Speed A/D Converters (pdf, 212,693 bytes)
High Speed ADCs Uses LVDS (Low-Voltage Differential Signaling) to Minimize Performance Limitations In ADC Applications When Providing High Speed Data Output

AN-561: AD7416 Connects to the PIC16F84 via Emulated I²C™ Interface (pdf, 75,851 bytes)

AN-501: Aperture Uncertainty and ADC System Performance (pdf, 233,126 bytes)
A Key Concern in IF Sampling is that of Aperture Uncertainty (Jitter)

AN-345: Grounding for Low-and-High-Frequency Circuits (pdf, 466,906 bytes)
Know Your Ground and Signal Paths for Effective Designs. Current Flow Seeks Path of Least Impedance-Not Just Resistance....

AN-282: Fundamentals of Sampled Data Systems (pdf, 2,182,923 bytes)

AN-257: Careful Design Tames High Speed Op Amps (pdf, 626,042 bytes)

AN-30: Ask the Applications Engineer - PLL Synthesizers (pdf, 189,276 bytes)

Technical Articles

A Fast Responding 60 dB Log Amplifier for Microwave Applications (pdf, 363,269 bytes)
(Microwave Journal, April 2004)

Make a Truly Linear RF-Power Detector
(EDN, Design Ideas, 9/19/2002)

Matching An ADC To A Transformer
by Rob Reeder, Analog Devices, Inc.
(Microwaves & RF, 7/2007)

Monitor And Control Base-Station Power Amps
by Liam Riordan, Analog Devices, Inc.
(Microwaves & RF, 4/2007)

Software Calibration Reduces D/A Converter Offset and Gain Errors
by Ken Kavanagh, Analog Devices, Inc. (Planet Analog, 5/18/2006)

Design A Clock-Distribution Strategy With Confidence
by Demetrios Efstathiou (Electronic Design, April 27, 2006)

Converters for 3G are Optimized for Cost, Size and Power
by Chris Cloninger, Analog Devices, Inc. (Planet Analog, 4/6/2006)

Phase Locked Loops for High-Frequency Receivers and Transmitters – Part 1 (pdf, 70,086 bytes)

Phase Locked Loops for High-Frequency Receivers and Transmitters – Part 3 (pdf, 78,145 bytes)

Phase-Locked Loops for High-Frequency Receivers and Transmitters - Part 2 (pdf, 110,000 bytes)

Will RF Detectors Measure Up To 3G?
by Rick Cory and Eamon Nash (Wireless Systems Design, July/August 2004)

Digital Potentiometers Vary Amplitude In DDS Devices
(Electronic Design, Ideas for Design, 5/29/2000)

Design a Logamp RF Pulse Detector (pdf, 347,021 bytes)
by Eamon Nash
(Microwaves & RF, January 1, 2000)

Ask the Experts

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