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This webinar offers an insightful knowledge on practical RF PCB design to bring your level of competence to the required standard to meet such demand. Practical design techniques on products in the market will also be highlighted.

This introductory webinar covers the basic theory and a simple design example of RF power amplifier.

In this keynote talk from EuMW, Dr. Steve Cripps takes the well publicized continuous mode power amplifier (PA) theory into some new territory.

This presentation will introduce the concept of Dynamic Load Modulation and demonstrate how amplifiers can be designed using this approach.

This webinar offers participants an insightful knowledge on practical RF PCB design (inclusive of 3D Planar and 3D FEM EM analysis) to bring their level of competence to the required standard to meet such demand. Practical design techniques on products in the market will also be highlighted.

Modern trends in reducing SWAP and increasing linearity to higher frequencies have pushed mixer technology to new heights. This talk compares some of the key technologies Marki Microwave has pursued to achieve these goals in mixer design. We will also highlight our novel mixer modeling capabilities and showcase the accuracy and convenience that is possible using physics-based nonlinear mixer models within the NI AWR Design Environment/ Microwave Office software.

This webinar offers participants insightful knowledge on practical RF PCB design to bring their level of competence to the required standard to meet such demand. 

 This webinar provides physical insight into the MIMO radar, conventional equivalents, and tradeoffs between the two.

This webinar provides an introduction to the theory and operation of radar.

This webinar describes the design of an 800 W amplifier using the nonlinear simulation capabilities in NI AWR Design Environment, specifically Microwave Office.

Recently EDA tools have added capabilities to deal with complex sets of load pull data. This presentation shows how these new features support digitally-modulated communication measurements such as ACPR, EVM and BER can be contoured, to provide further impedance optimization and provide insight to the impact of varying load conditions.

Microwave circuit designers conventionally think of impedance transformation as being achievable only through the use of matching networks which use various passive reactive elements. The active alternative, which uses an injected co-phased signal to achieve the same ends, is little used, other than in power-managing RFPA topologies such as the Doherty and Chireix outphasing configurations. Recently published work by the author's team have demonstrated that active load modulation can be used in a much wider range of microwave circuit applications. This talk will summarise this burgeoning field and illustrate some specific cases where active load modulation has been used to implement reconfigurable wideband amplifiers.

This free one-hour webinar will show the development of a compact IoT dual-band Wi-Fi MIMO array using commercial software that supports antenna synthesis from electrical specifications. Advanced topics such as phased-array and multi-function antenna design will also be presented.

This webinar covers radar detection and ranging, pulse versus continuous wave applications, radar modulation, radar path budget (basic radar equation), radar range equation, range ambiguity and mitigation, maximum and minimum detectable range, and plan position indicator (PPI) and A-scope.

This webinar presented by Dan Swanson from DGS Associates showcases a microstrip combline filter design example using the NI AWR Design Environment platform and SW Filter Design software.

This webinar presents the application and design of a printed Balun suitable for L-band (1350-1850 MHz) push-pull power amplifiers. The design begins with an idealized circuit simulation in Microwave Office using closed-form transmission line models followed by a more rigorous 2.5D planar EM simulation conducted using AXIEM. Measured results and techniques for analyzing the performance of components with non 50 ohm terminations are discussed.

​This webinar presents some of the design challenges for incorporating antenna simulations for 5G applications into circuit and system simulators that are automatically coupled by the NI AWR Design Environment platform. System simulators must model phased arrays in order to support 5G and this presentation demonstrates how Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) system simulator provides a phased-array model, enabling designers to input the array’s geometry using either a standard layout pattern or one of their own creation.

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. 

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.