The modern, advanced CMOS direct radio frequency (RF)-sampling data converter has been eagerly awaited by system design engineers for several major end-equipment manufacturers. This includes ...

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 ...

Few topics in electrical engineering have demanded as much attention over the years as the phase-locked loop (PLL). The PLL is arguably one of the most important building blocks necessary for modern ...

Texas Instruments (TI) recently introduced two new radio frequency (RF)-sampling transceivers that the company claims are the first in the industry to integrate four analog-to-digital converters (ADCs ...

Aliasing is thankfully becoming a less frequent problem due to improved instrument designs. Users should still be aware of it ...