TUMA21: Demystifying 'N': Improving Temperature Variable Attenuator Selection by Modeling Temperature Behavior
IMS2026
Temperature Variable Attenuators (TVAs) are essential for RF gain stabilization, yet their behavior is often mischaracterized by the simplistic “N-value” designation. In practice, ...
TUMA22: Full thermal Single Sweep Broadband S-Parameter measurements to 250 GHz with single ended and differential approaches
IMS2026
As device performance continues to improve, customers require over-temperature data to ever higher frequencies, without the time consumption and uncertainty of band swapping. In addition, the populari...
TUMA23: How To Reduce Thermal Drift in Transmit/Receive Modules (TRM).
IMS2026
Temperature effects can wreak havoc on transmit/receive module (TRM) performance. This MicroApp will describe two mitigation approaches: active and passive. For the passive approach, selection criteri...
WEMA5: Enabling low cost Wi-Fi SoCs for Defense and Aerospace Applications
IMS2026
The wireless industry is exploring the use of low-cost Wi-Fi SoC for applications outside of Wi-Fi. Some use cases include point-to-point wireless, airborne communications and other medium-range commu...
WEMA2: Fast Electromagnetic Modeling of Superconducting Circuits Used with Quantum Computers and Rapid Single Flux Quantum Designs
IMS2026
Quantum computing is a promising technology for cryptography and optimization, while Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) is a promising technology for cryogenic logic and memory circuits. Quantum design...
WEMA4: Power Integrity in the Era of Advanced Packaging: Changing the Paradigm of FEM
IMS2026
Computational electromagnetic solvers will often utilize tetrahedra and adaptive meshing to provide accurate results. This methodology has presented many challenges from capacity to solve time. By cha...
WEMA1: Software Defined Radio (SDR) on a chip - from Ethernet to RF with an integrated processor sub-system
IMS2026
The latest generation of ADI monolithically integrated software defined radio chip is introduced in this MicroApp. This 6th generation device builds on 15 years, and 5 generations of ADI integrated tr...
WEMA6: StartUp Panel: RF Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI, New Space, and New Defense
IMS2026
AI-driven systems, venture-backed defense startups, proliferated LEO constellations, and the maturation of wireless are reshaping the economics and architecture of RF systems. This panel explores how ...
WEMA7: MEMS Oscillators for RF Engineers
IMS2026
MEMS based oscillators entered the market about 20 years ago, providing clocks and timing for digital systems. With recent improvements in bandwidth, resolution, programmability, stability, and phase...
WEMA8: Simulating Receiver Degradation Due to an Adjacent Transmit Signal
IMS2026
Receiver performances (such as error vector magnitude) are degraded by nearby transmitters. This degradation is affected by noise, filtering, amplifier distortion, power levels, transmitter-to-receiv...