Plextek RFI – Microwave Product Digest

VFTT – Plextek RFI

January 2, 2019 mpdigest

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Liam Devlin, CEO, Plextek RFI MPD: The 2019 defense budget is chock full of EW, radar, and other programs with lots of RF and microwave content, so, if your company serves the defense market, what are your thoughts about how this will affect your business in the coming years? LD: Government defense system orders generally […]

View From the Top – Plextek RFI

January 24, 2017 mpdigest 0

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VFTT – Plextek RFI

December 28, 2017 mpdigest 0

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The Design of Multi-Chip SMT Front-End Modules for mm-Wave 5G Applications

May 22, 2018 mpdigest

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by Graham Pearson*, Liam Devlin* and Mike Geen†, *Plextek RFI Ltd and †Filtronic Broadband Ltd The order-of-magnitude increase in data rates, and seemingly infinite capacity, promised by 5G communications systems will be facilitated by the use of mm-Wave frequencies, where large bands of contiguous spectrum are being made available. Although the mm-Wave bands for 5G […]

Design and Evaluation of a 125W L-Band GaN Power Amplifier

July 20, 2016 mpdigest 0

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Design of a Broadband L-band 160W GaN Power Amplifier Using SMT Packaged Transistors

July 26, 2017 mpdigest 0

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VFTT – Plextek RFI

December 28, 2017 mpdigest

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Liam Devlin, CEO, Plextek RFI MPD: Millimeter wave frequencies will be used for cellular communications for the first time in 5G. What challenges and opportunities does this present for the microwave industry? LD: We have developed mmWave components for most of the favored candidate mmWave 5G bands (26 GHz, 28 GHz, 37 GHz and 39 GHz). The […]

View From the Top – Plextek RFI

January 24, 2017 mpdigest 0

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Design of a Broadband L-band 160W GaN Power Amplifier Using SMT Packaged Transistors

July 26, 2017 mpdigest

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by Plextek RFI & Qorvo The design of a broadband power amplifier for L-band radar and wideband communications applications is described. Using a state-of-the-art Qorvo transistor in a cost-effective SMT plastic package, the amplifier has 160W output power between 1.2GHz and 1.8GHz and a typical efficiency of 55% for the complete connectorized PA. Particular consideration […]

What is the Real Value of IoT?: How the IoT Will Make Our Lives Better

November 22, 2016 mpdigest 0

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The Impact of the IoT Demystified

November 20, 2017 mpdigest 0

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Mm-wave Components and Technologies for 5G Applications

June 15, 2017 mpdigest

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Plextek RFI CEO Liam Devlin speaking at the Interlligent RF & Microwave Seminar 2017. With work well under way on the design and development of the first mm-wave 5G demonstrator system, a much quoted goal is to have a network capable of providing seemingly infinite capacity and negligible latency. Operation at mm-wave frequencies allows the […]

The Design of an L-band 125W GaN PA

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Webinar – How to Design an X-band MMIC PA

February 22, 2017 mpdigest 0

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Webinar – How to Design an X-band MMIC PA

February 22, 2017 mpdigest

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How to Design an X-band MMIC PAKeysight Technologies Webinar presented by Plextek RFIThursday 2 March 2017, 15:00 GMT Keysight Technologies will host a free webinar on How to Design an X-band MMIC PA, presented by Stuart Glynn, Senior Consultant Engineer at Plextek RFI, on Thursday 2 March at 15:00 GMT (07:00 PST/10:00 EST). More about the Webinar Active phased-array […]

Fun Keysight DDR Design & Debug Challenge Video

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Keysight Technologies, Spreadtrum Communications Announce MoU to Collaborate on Mobile Chipset Advanced Technology

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View From the Top – Plextek RFI

January 24, 2017 mpdigest

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by Liam Devlin, CEO – Plextek RFI MPD: The defense market for RF and microwave components through subsystems appears to be more lucrative than in recent years, especially in the area of electronic warfare. If your company sells into the defense market, what are your thoughts about how it will perform in 2017? LD: The defense market is […]

VFTT – Plextek RFI

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Design and Evaluation of a 125W L-Band GaN Power Amplifier

July 20, 2016 mpdigest

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by Andy Dearn and Robert Smith – Plextek RFI The scope and performance of commercially available Gallium Nitride (GaN) discrete transistors is steadily increasing and the parts now available from leading manufacturers have impressive RF performance in terms of their available gain, RF output power and efficiency. For RF output powers in the order of […]

Design of a Broadband L-band 160W GaN Power Amplifier Using SMT Packaged Transistors

July 26, 2017 mpdigest 0

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The Design of Multi-Chip SMT Front-End Modules for mm-Wave 5G Applications

May 22, 2018 mpdigest 0

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The Design of an L-band 125W GaN PA

June 1, 2016 mpdigest

Plextek RFI has published a new white paper on its website, entitled ‘The Design of an L-band 125W GaN PA‘. The white paper describes the design and evaluation of a single stage 125W L-Band GaN Power Amplifier using a low-cost packaged transistor. The amplifier is optimized for the 0.96 to 1.215 GHz band with a […]