No matter what the job at hand is, if you’re going to tackle it, you’re going to need the right kit of tools. And if your job includes making sense out of any of the signals in the virtual soup of RF ...

Designing a system for communication over RF is a dark art. It’s an obscure domain filled with photonmancy, wires going every which way, and imaginary numbers. RF is reserved entirely for wizards. The ...

SDRplay, the Wakefield software defined radio specialist, has upgraded its RSP1 entry level SDR receiver with an expanded and improved version called the RSP1A. “Since launching the RSP1, we have ...

The creation of true software-defined-radio (SDR) systems has been made possible by the digitization of traditionally analog RF hardware. SDRs have been under development for many years. Now, they are ...

There is a new breed of RF receivers known as software-defined radios, and they are revolutionizing the way in which people listen to shortwave (SW) radio, or indeed any form of radio broadcast. SDRs ...

Characteristics of transceivers that combine analog, digital, and mixed-signal components, such as SDR, RFSoC/SoC, and DFE technologies. Basics of an SDR and RFSoC/SoC. The advantages/disadvantages of ...