White Papers

Subscribe

RF semiconductor devices grow more complex and production pressures increase, engineers and operations leaders need practical guidance on how to build scalable, cost-effective production test strategies. This white paper serves as a decision-making resource for manufacturers evaluating RF automated production test solutions, comparing turnkey ATE platforms with custom, DIY RF production test systems. 

United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) is proud to announce that its new GH10-10 GaN technology is now fully qualified and already opened in production mode, empowering our customers with high performance, fast time-to-market and greater competitive advantages.

Accurate simulation models for single-layers capacitors have to date not been widely available.  Modelithics has recently developed a proven methodology for producing broadband, measurement-validated equivalent-circuit, and 3D electromagnetic models for SLCs. These new models are parametrically scalable and validated to frequencies as high as 67 GHz. 

RF record and playback enables engineers to capture real world RF signals and reuse them throughout development, validation, and test to evaluate system performance. Modern radar, electronic warfare, SIGINT, and satellite communications systems operate across wide instantaneous bandwidths, employ agile waveforms, and contend with dense, multi emitter environments where critical events are brief yet consequential. 

Micro-precision additive manufacturing is unlocking new possibilities in millimeter-wave component design, enabling lighter, more complex, and higher-performing structures up to 270 GHz. From RF filters and hollow waveguides to corrugated horn antennas and ceramic-loaded modules, the design freedom and monolithic manufacturing accuracy this technology offers are explored in depth in this new white paper.

As 5G expands and 6G emerges, mixer performance is critical to RF system behavior at wide bandwidths and mmWave frequencies. This ebook explores how modern mixers impact RF front-end performance, including frequency translation, linearity, noise, and image suppression.

Eliminate rail droop, slow recovery, and nuisance trips in pulse-mode RF and radar applications. The MEAN WELL NCP-3200-CDI series is a 3.2 kW, 48 V pulse-optimized AC/DC supply with active droop compensation and high-speed bulk-cap support, delivering up to 110 A peak with controlled recharge for clean, repeatable pulse performance.

RF baluns and transformers may be some of the most challenging components to select for a given system design. For starters, baluns and transformers are used for a wide variety of functions which partly determine the appropriate configuration for a given application.

Traditional multiport VNAs measure full S-parameters sequentially, but many applications only require reflection data. This article explores a parallel approach using synchronized 1-port VNAs, each measuring independently. The result is significantly faster, simultaneous multiport reflection measurements, enabling higher throughput and more efficient testing in practical environments.

This primer examines the theory  of state-of-the-art spectrum analysis  and describes how modern spectrum  analyzers are designed and how they work. That is followed by a brief  characterization of today's signal  generators, which are needed as a  stimulus when performing amplifier  measurements.