A software-defined radio (SDR) uses a general-purpose computer processor to perform aspects of digital signal processing in place of analog circuit hardware. This allows for greater flexibility in ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 11, 2011 – National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a family of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that are the industry’s first to directly sample RF signals beyond 2 ...

How and why f max hit a wall at the 28-nm node. Progress in RF signal-chain innovation will come not on ASICs but on FPGAs. Developments in direct data-conversion devices will pave the way to SDM air ...

With the exponential increase in wireless traffic, mobile networks are transformed into more software-driven, virtualized, flexible, intelligent, and energy efficient systems. These trends have ...

Communications receiver architecture has evolved slowly over the years. The most common and successful configuration is the superheterodyne architecture, which translates the incoming signal to a ...