DSOs (digital oscilloscopes) offer a great many advantages over their analog equivalents but as they say, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Digital scopes sample, digitize, and store waveforms ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Modern telecommunications applications like 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems as well as forthcoming 5G systems use ...

We casually speak of digital audio, often referring to it as AES audio, perhaps AES3 (for the number of the AES standard), or by an older term AES/EBU. But what exactly is this AES3 signal? Here’s the ...

This article introduces the basic concepts ofthe cellular handset through a brief historical background, detailsabout the evolution of the GSM, and the physical-layerspecifications. We will also ...

We'd almost forgotten about LinPlug's CronoX 4, which the company previewed in February, but we've just got word that it's been released. The name has been truncated slightly to CrX4, but this is very ...

It is common for an ADC or DAC to be required to meet a SFDR (spurious free dynamic range) specification. Definition: “Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is the strength ratio of the fundamental ...