Editor's Note: This is a multi-part excerpt from Agilent Technologies' Application Note: Mobile WiMAX PHY Layer (RF) Operation and Measurement. Part 1 of this article introduces the WiMAX standard and ...
In Part 3 of RF Fundamentals, we will focus on the challenges related to the need to generate and demodulate analog and digitally modulated signals in the RF signal chain. We’ll review CW signal ...
The critical component in all digital communications receivers is the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC sampling rate, bandwidth, and noise tolerance establishes the specifications and ...