Texas Instruments' proprietary SimpliciTI network protocol for networks of less than 100 nodes minimizes MCU resource requirements, power consumption, and cost. Small, low-power RF networks typically ...

Electronic hackers and ham radio operators of a certain age have a soft spot for the Heathkit brand. Maybe that’s why we had a rush of nostalgia when we saw the Heathkit site had a new product. You ...

[Scott] wrote in to us with his simple, but well done RF signal strength meter. As he points out in his post, sometimes an Arduino is overkill, so a Picaxe 08M was used instead. Apparently this was a ...

There is a basic method for measuring high-frequency power using a power meter and power sensor (Fig. 1). The power sensor converts high-frequency power to a dc or low-frequency signal that the power ...

Yozo Shimada and Kazuhiro Shimaoka, Electromagnetic Waves Division, the Metrology Institute of Japan of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; President: Ryoji ...

Wireless communications products that depend on RF principles are everywhere these days, and the growth rate is astonishing. From cell phones and wireless PDAs to Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, Bluetooth ...