Electronic Design

RF Detectors For Wireless Devices

What is an RF detector? An RF detector monitors or samples the output of an RF circuit and develops a dc output voltage proportional to the power at that point. What do you do with an RF detector? RF ...
EDN

Simple RF Detector For 2M

This simple circuit helps you sniff out RF radiation leaking from your transmitter, improper joints, a broken cable or equipment with poor RF shielding. The tester is designed for the 2-m amateur ...
EDN

Simple 144 MHz RF Detector

This simple circuit helps you sniff out RF radiation leaking from your transmitter, improper joints, a broken cable or equipment with poor RF shielding. The tester is designed for the 2-m amateur ...
Electronic Design

Bidirectional Bridge with Dual RMS Detectors Targets RF Power, Return-Loss Measurement

Download this article in PDF format. Directional couplers are used in a wide variety of applications to sense RF power, and they may appear at multiple points in a signal chain. In this article, we ...
Electronics Weekly

TI adds phase detector and PLL to precision RF synthesiser

Texas Instruments has introduced a wideband frequency synthesiser with integrated low phase-noise voltage-controlled oscillator. The device combines a low noise phase-locked loop (PLL) and a phase ...