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ExecutiveInterviews
November 2008

Rodd Novak
V.P. Marketing & Business Development
Peregrine Semiconductor
Novak discusses the company’s proprietary process that brought Silicon-on-Sapphire to market, the high-performance switches and digital step attenuators (DSA) fabricated via this technology and how these devices address the needs of the multi-band commercial and defense markets.



ExpertAdvice
November 2008

Moray Rumney, Agilent Technologies:
The Importance of Average vs. Peak Perfor-
mance in Wireless

When I was growing up my favourite book was undoubtedly the “Guinness Book of World
Records.” I used to dip in and out of it searching for the craziest extremes of human experience.

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Win: The first five contributors are eligible to receive a complimentary copy of the textbook: Electrical Engineering – A Pocket Reference from Artech House.



Then: Microwave Filter Design Techniques

Essad Tahan



First published in March of 1962, this article introduced a filter technique developed for the design of direct coupled microwave filters





Advances in Microwave Filter Design Techniques

Jorge A. Ruiz-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Chi Wang, Orbital Sciences Corp.; Kawthar A. Zaki, University of Maryland

Presentation of the advances in filter design techniques in the framework of the evolution of the microwave industry

Concepts of Orthogonal Frequency Domain Modulation

Dave Whipple, Agilent Technologies

White Paper: Moving Communications from SISO to MIMO

Mark Elo, Keithley Instruments

White Paper: PMTL™, A New High Speed Transmission Line Technology

Jamal S. Izadian, Ph.D, RFCONNEXT, Inc.

Tutorial: VCO Design Explained, Lesson 2

Joseph Andrews, RFVCO

Career Corner

Isaac Mendelson, ElectroMagneticCareers.com

Microwave engineering today lays the foundations for tomorrow’s infrastructure in literally every aspect of life.

A Microwave Journey, Part V: The 1990s

David Vye, Editor, Microwave Journal

Fifth in a multi-part series dedicated to a decade-by-decade breakdown of the history of Microwave Journal

RF and Microwave in Asia: Economies of Scale

Richard Mumford, Microwave Journal International Editor

Microwave Journal's annual overview of the Asian radio frequency and microwave market

Metamaterial-based Compact Multilayer Filter with Skew-symmetric Feeds

Yongzhong Zhu, Dan Li, Yongjun Xie and Rui Yang, Xidian University

Combination of multilayer technology and a split ring resonator in the design of a novel multilayer filter

IMODEL: A Novel Tool for High-performance Inductor Selection

A. Goñi, J. del Pino, O. Medina, S.L. Khemchandani and A. Hernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Introduction to a new approach used to generate an integrated inductor library

Circuit Simulation of Dual-mode Waveguide Cavity Filters

Alex Lapidus, L-3 Communications, Narda Microwave-West

Presentation of a transmission line circuit model of a dual-mode resonator-based waveguide filter

New Tunable Technology for Mobile-TV Antennas

Tero Ranta and Rodd Novak, Peregrine Semiconductor

Introduction to a design methodology for a tunable capacitor circuit to handle GSM/DVB-H interoperability requirements

Broadband Noise Generators Span 10 Hz to 18 GHz

AtlanTecRF

Development of a series of broadband noise generators covering the intermediate frequency ranges of both digital radio and satellite systems

Creating High-performance SDR Architectures

Agilent EEsof EDA

Introduction to a software program designed for the rapid development of software-defined radio waveform architectures and algorithm development





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