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Phased-Array Design Flow for MIMO and Beam-Steering Applications This webinar will discuss phased-array antennas, well-known for their use in radar and aerospace systems, are now seeing greater use in commercial applications. |
Webinar | December 12, 2018 |
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Meteksan Defence |
Customer Story | December 3, 2018 |
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AWR Design Forum – Creating an Ecosystem Beyond Software |
Technical Article | November 29, 2018 |
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WIE: Changing Skill Set I recently participated in a panel at EDI CON USA, where we discussed “Skills Employers Will Want in 2020,” that employers are not only looking at the core skills necessary as an engineer but also communications skills – the ability to communicate your ideas with others and to get along as a team. In this blog I’m sharing a few of the discussion points that resonated well with me. |
Blog Article | November 29, 2018 |
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RFIC PA Development for Communication and Radar Systems: Basic Operations and Metrics This white paper examines some of the challenges in designing RFIC-based PAs for future 5G communication systems. |
White Paper | November 28, 2018 |
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Network Synthesis Automates Interactive Matching-Circuit Design Reducing product development time requires design tools that support and expedite all stages of development, from translating performance requirements into an initial design through to optimization, physical realization, and final verification. |
Webinar | November 28, 2018 |
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Sumitomo Electric Industries Sumitomo Electric Designs Compact GaN HEMT Doherty Amplifier Using NI AWR Software |
Customer Story | November 26, 2018 |
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Network Synthesis Wizard Automates Interactive Matching-Circuit Design This article examines new EDA software technology in the domain of network synthesis for the development of impedance-matching circuits. |
Technical Article | November 16, 2018 |
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Design Software Accelerates Antenna Array Development for Automotive Radar Applications This article examines several challenges behind developing millimeter-wave radar systems for the next generation of smart cars and trucks. |
Technical Article | November 14, 2018 |
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Basics of Design: Filter Technologies for 5G Wireless Communication Systems |
White Paper | November 9, 2018 |
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Qorvo awarded US Air Force Contract to Accelerate GaN Design, Performance and Reliability |
Technical Article | November 7, 2018 |
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Complete X-Band 2x2 Phased-Array Antenna Design and Simulation This webinar will discuss the design flow of a 2x2 phased-array antenna with a T/R module operating in the 8-12 GHz frequency range using the unique phased array modeling capabilities available within the NI AWR Design Environment platform. |
Webinar | November 7, 2018 |
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Basics of Design: Raising the Levels of 5G Millimeter-Wave Signals Designing a millimeter-wave PA presents challenges from the extreme miniaturization of millimeter-wave circuits and the need to conserve signal power as much as possible by minimizing forward and reflected signal losses. |
White Paper | November 7, 2018 |
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PCB Import Wizard in NI AWR Software Accelerates EM Verification of Complex Board Structures This article walks through an example that highlights the capabilities of the new PCB import wizard that accelerate EM verification of PCBs. |
Technical Article | October 31, 2018 |
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WIE: Supporting and Championing Others This blog series is based on research and writing I did for the NIWeek 2018 Women’s Leadership Forum panel, which I am sharing in hopes of encouraging dialog and action to further diversity in engineering. |
Blog Article | October 30, 2018 |
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Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics (MTUCI) MTUCI Students Design Microwave Filters Using NI AWR Software |
Customer Story | October 29, 2018 |
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Design of a BAW Quadplexer Module Using NI AWR Software This application note describes the design of a carrier aggregation (CA) bulk acoustic wave (BAW) quadplexer module for the LTE-3 and LTE-7 bands, with high in-band and cross-band isolation. |
Application Note | October 26, 2018 |
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Phased-Array Antenna Design Tools for MIMO/Beam-Steering Applications |
Technical Article | October 24, 2018 |
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The Load-Modulated Balanced Amplifier Quadrature-balanced amplifiers hold a revered position in the historical development of broadband microwave amplifiers up to 20 GHz and beyond because they replaced unreliable traveling wave tubes (TWTs) with solid-state equivalents. |
Webinar | October 23, 2018 |
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Platform Propels RF Designs from Concepts to Products |
Technical Article | October 11, 2018 |
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RF PCB Design Verification and Flows In this webinar, Dr. Dunn will examine changing EM verification requirements for PCBs targeting RF/wireless applications and recent capabilities in the PCB import wizard that enable designers to isolate and characterize critical traces through complex multi-layer configurations. |
Webinar | October 11, 2018 |
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Seeing the Forest and the Trees Our marketing and application engineering teams are working to inform and educate NI AWR users about the new features in V14 of NI AWR software, especially in the context of 3P (PA, phased-array, and PCB/module) design flows. I think of it as an exercise in learning to see the forest and the trees – flows and features. |
Blog Article | October 11, 2018 |
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La Salle Universitat Ramon Llull LaSalle Students Design Matching Networks for Virtual Antenna Technology Using NI AWR Software |
Customer Story | October 11, 2018 |
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Small Loop Antenna Matching for Minimum Sensitivity |
Technical Article | September 25, 2018 |
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Empowering Women Engineers, Encouraging Diversity of Ideas to Drive Innovation and Success |
Technical Article | September 25, 2018 |
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V14 Product Review Learn more about newly released NI AWR Design Environment V14. This document highlights key features of this software release. |
Collateral | September 21, 2018 |
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Expanding the Antenna Frontier With Antenna Synthesis and 3D Printing With the advent of connected smart devices, researchers and engineers are exploring design tools and manufacturing processes that will help them develop smaller, more efficient integrated antennas for a wide range of applications. This article explores such an effort by the students of NC State University working with commercial antenna synthesis software and 3D printing. |
Technical Article | September 19, 2018 |
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A Smarter Platform to Accelerate RF/Microwave Designs from Concept to Product This article highlights new features in NI AWR Design Environment software V14 that focus on all stages of RF/microwave design to address the stringent component/system requirements of next-generation communications and radar systems. |
Technical Article | September 19, 2018 |
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Primer: 5G NR Primer for Amplifier and Filter Design This primer examines the challenges of designing filters and PAs for 5G NR communication systems. |
White Paper | September 13, 2018 |
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WIE: Encouraging Diversity to Drive Ideas, Innovation and Success This blog is the second in a series based on research and writing I did for the NIWeek 2018 Women’s Leadership Forum panel, which I am sharing in hopes of encouraging dialog and action to further diversity in engineering. The first blog talked about building a legacy of empowerment for women engineers. This blog talks about diversity in ideas and how that drives innovation. |
Blog Article | September 11, 2018 |
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Toshiba Research Europe Limited Innovates a Totem Pole RF Power Amplifier |
Customer Story | August 29, 2018 |
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Measure of Success David Vye, director of technical marketing, comments on how software automation, in particular the V14 release of NI AWR software, is playing a critical role in supporting evolving market needs and associated design challenges. |
Technical Article | August 28, 2018 |
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V14 - All About That Face (Interface)! Perhaps because it’s summer or I’m listening to too much pop on the radio as I drive to the office, but all the mentions of interface this and interface that reminded me of a Meghan Trainor hit song called “It’s All About that Bass.” Bass? What about “face” as in interface? |
Blog Article | August 24, 2018 |
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Compact PA Solutions Using Novel GaN Process and Specialized Software Modern electronic warfare (EW) and battlefield awareness require reliable, high-output-power, high-efficiency, and large-bandwidth power amplifier (PA) solutions. Designers at Wolfspeed in this case study were tasked with using a next-generation 28 V GaN process technology (G28V4, 0.25µm) to design a wideband general-purpose device capable of meeting the demands of the EW market for dismounted or man-portable uses that operate from battery power. The Wolfspeed design team chose the NI AWR Design Environment platform for the design of the CG2H30070F 0.5-3.0 GHz GaN on SiC PA. The ability to quickly add a full Ansys HFSS package transistor model in Microwave Office software along with a full AXIEM EM simulation of the PCB enabled the team to analyze the circuit in detail and achieve industry- leading performance in a short period of time. |
Technical Article | August 14, 2018 |
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WIE: Building a Legacy of Empowerment for Women Engineers I recently sat on the panel for the NIWeek 2018 Women’s Leadership Forum, which was moderated by Eric Starkloff, Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing for NI and included, along with myself representing NI, Dr. Sharon Wood, Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Irene Petrick, Director Industrial Innovation, Intel. The title of the panel was “Building a Legacy of Empowerment and Maximized Innovations,” and the goals were to provide different perspectives into how leaders navigate diversity and career high/lows, showcase how organizations support diversity and empowerment, and provide insight into the importance of how we keep building toward greater innovation. |
Blog Article | August 9, 2018 |
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Frequency Matters: IMS 2018 Pat Hindle and Gary Lerude discuss articles in the Microwave Journal June Diamond Anniversary issue and mention the SARAS Technology application article, where a GaN RFPA was designed using Microwave Office software. |
Technical Article | August 2, 2018 |
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Microwaves, Medicine and Mobility – IMSA 2018 Wrap Up The NI AWR Design Environment platform featured new capabilities in V14 of Microwave Office software that focus on expediting all stages of design from initial starts using powerful network synthesis to circuit/system and EM simulation technology for performance analysis, optimization, and verification. |
Technical Article | July 29, 2018 |