RF & Microwave

Skyworks Solutions is sampling FEMs and BAW filters designed to enhance the range  and coverage of WiFi 7 across 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands. The FEMs  have been validated across leading SoC platforms. The Full-band filters claim to be the industry’s only product that allow simultaneous operation over the 5.170~5.895GHz and 5.945-7.125GHz bands with only one filter ...

Mikroe has introduced a narrowband LTE IoT communication development board in its ‘Click’ format. It is called ‘NB IoT 6 Click’, and its active wireless module is the BC65 from Shanghai based Quectel, a low-power (4μA) device compliant with 3GPP Release 13 and Release 14, supporting LTE bands B1, B3, B5, B8, B20 and B28 across 700MHz to 2.2GHz. LTE ...

‘SMP bullet’ is an answer to the question: How do I get 40GHz from one PCB to another without taking up too much room? Also named ’62-602-1′ and only 6.5mm long by 3.4mm in diameter, the “bullet is designed to minimise gaps and compensate for axial and radial misalignment, ensuring consistently repeatable VSWR under compression, and reliable connections engineered to ...

Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth LE and Matter applications with a wireless microcontroller equipped with 2Mbyte if non-volatile memory and 512kbyte of ram. Made on a 22nm process, nRF54LM20A, will have a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 main processor and a RISC-V co-processor, USB and up to 66 GPIOs. The 2.4GHz radio will support Bluetooth LE channel-sounding and Matter-over-Thread, and will ...

Silicon Labs has cherry-picked its FG23 family of sub-GHz wireless MCUs to create the less capable FG23L family. “FG23L is optimised for the simple applications that have been the backbone of proprietary wireless networks,” SiLabs marketing manager Chad Steider told Electronics Weekly. “These applications, like smart city sensors, home automation and security sensors, as well as fobs and remotes, don’t ...

Antenova has created a PCB antenna for 5G comms that includes band 71 (617 – 698MHz) for T-Mobile in the USA. “SR4L104 is future-proofed as it covers the most common current 4G & 5G bands globally, ranging from 617 to 7,125MHz frequency, including the new 5G bands,” said the company. It will “bridge 4G/LTE networks as 5G becomes the new global ...

Leankon has announced a 40 x 5 x 1mm surface-mount antenna intended to support 4G LTE and GNSS globally. Called LK1830201, it covers three bands simultaneously through a single 50Ω port: 698 – 960MHz: <-6dB return loss, <3 VSWR, >60% av efficiency, 1.4 dBi peak gain 1,710 – 2,690MHz: <-7dB return loss, <2.6 VSWR, >65% av efficiency, 3.5dBi peak gain ...

The Z-Wave Alliance has released its revamped Z-Wave Certified Product Guide. The online database is for searching and comparing the thousands of official Z-Wave devices. The resource (pictured) is aimed at both smart home professionals and consumers. “With the release of the re-imagined Z-Wave Certified Product Guide, we’re delivering so much more than a catalogue, we’re giving the industry a ...

Mikroe has introduced a ‘Click’ format development board which supports Bluetooth LE Audio Unicast and Auracast. It is based around a Bluetooth 5.4 module from Cambridge UK based IOT747, called IDC777-1, which is itself built around a Qualcomm Bluetooth chip. It is “designed to provide high-quality wireless audio streaming and data communications over Bluetooth in both Classic and LE Audio ...

Antenova is aiming at LoRa, Sigfox and Zigbee with a surface-mount sub-GHz antenna covering 863 – 870MHz and 902 – 928MHz. Average efficiency is 72.5% in ISM 868 and 77.9% in ISM 915, said the company, adding: “Gatun offers higher efficiency compared to older generation ISM antennas.” ‘ISM’ wavelength bands are reserved for ‘industrial scientific and medical’ use. As well ...