RF / Microwave Instrumentation
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-0982 : The Residual Phase Noise Measurement
(pdf, 710 kB)
- AN-935 : Designing an ADC Transformer-Coupled Front End
(pdf, 363 kB)
- AN-927 : Determining if a Spur is Related to the DDS/DAC or to Some Other Source (For Example, Switching Supplies)
(pdf, 170 kB)
- AN-878 : High Speed ADC SPI Control Software
(pdf, 585 kB)
- AN-873 : Lock Detect on the ADF4xxx Family of PLL Synthesizers
(pdf, 207 kB)
- AN-835 : Understanding High Speed ADC Testing and Evaluation
(pdf, 1326 kB)
- AN-827 : A Resonant Approach to Interfacing Amplifiers to Switched-Capacitor ADCs
(pdf, 203 kB)
- AN-826 : A 2.4 GHz WiMAX Direct Conversion Transmitter
(pdf, 417 kB)
- AN-808 : Multicarrier CDMA2000 Feasibility
(pdf, 1535 kB)
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, 969 kB)
- AN-756 : Sampled Systems and the Effects of Clock Phase Noise and Jitter
(pdf, 291 kB)
- AN-742 : Frequency Domain Response of Switched-Capacitor ADCs
(pdf, 321 kB)
- AN-737 : How ADIsimADC Models an ADC
(pdf, 373 kB)
- AN-691 : Operation of RF Detector Products at Low Frequency
(pdf, 778 kB)
- AN-345 : Grounding for Low-and-High-Frequency Circuits
(pdf, 455 kB)
Know Your Ground and Signal Paths for Effective Designs. Current Flow Seeks Path of Least Impedance-Not Just Resistance.... - AN-257 : Careful Design Tames High Speed Op Amps
(pdf, 611 kB)
- AN-30 : Ask the Applications Engineer - PLL Synthesizers
(pdf, 184 kB)
Ask the Experts
- Analog Devices, Inc. Application Engineering Department
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Product Reviews
- Quadrature Modulator ICs Span 250-MHz to 4-GHz
(eeProduct Center, 5/8/06)
Technical Articles
- Converters for 3G are Optimized for Cost, Size and Power
by Chris Cloninger, Analog Devices, Inc. (Planet Analog, 4/6/2006) - Design A Clock-Distribution Strategy With Confidence
by Demetrios Efstathiou (Electronic Design, April 27, 2006) - Design a Logamp RF Pulse Detector
(pdf, 338 kB)
by Eamon Nash
(Microwaves & RF, January 1, 2000) - Digital Potentiometers Vary Amplitude In DDS Devices
(Electronic Design, Ideas for Design, 5/29/2000) - 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) - Phase Locked Loops for High-Frequency Receivers and Transmitters – Part 1
(pdf, 68 kB)
- Phase Locked Loops for High-Frequency Receivers and Transmitters – Part 3
(pdf, 76 kB)
- Phase-Locked Loops for High-Frequency Receivers and Transmitters - Part 2
(pdf, 107 kB)
- Software Calibration Reduces D/A Converter Offset and Gain Errors
by Ken Kavanagh, Analog Devices, Inc. (Planet Analog, 5/18/2006)