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Monday, January 21, 2013

#DESIGNCON: "RF Black Magic Speeds Digital Interfaces"

Radio frequency (RF) engineering has solved all the signal integrity problems that can occur at gigaHertz (GHz) speeds for TV, satellites and radar applications. And now that digital interfaces are ascending into the GHz speed realm, those waveguides, resonators, power dividers, antennas and other three-dimensional structures can be used to quell problems with digital transmission lines: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

An RF filter that smoothes out ripple can be implemented as buried stripline on the printed circuit board where ground planes will contain the fields while impedance and routing length can be tightly controlled using "black magic" conjured for TV, satellite and radar applications.

Learn how to harness RF black-magic for your digital design in the DesignCon 2013 session Applying Microwave Techniques to Digital Systems on Tuesday, January 29 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
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