We have all seen Printed Circuit Board (PCB) antennas: those squiggly bits of traces on PCBs connected often to a Bluetooth, WiFi or other wireless communication chip. On modules like for the ESP8266 ...

Have you ever built a wireless project and weren’t sure how to make one of those awesome (and cheap!) PCB antennas? “What low-cost solutions does our Antenna Board #referencedesign contain?” said ...

Antenova has created a new software tool to help designers place antennas in a wireless design. The tool displays the optimum position for embedded antennas on the PCB, depending upon the dimensions ...

A new white paper has been released comparing ceramic chip antennas and pcb trace antennas. The paper discusses the pros and cons of these two popular antenna types. The purpose of a trace antenna on ...

Antenova is aiming at LoRa, Sigfox and Zigbee with a surface-mount sub-GHz antenna covering 863 – 870MHz and 902 – 928MHz. Average efficiency is 72.5% in ISM 868 and 77.9% in ISM 915, said the company ...

Antennas are sensitive to their surroundings. Thus, when there’s an antenna on the PCB, the layout for the design should take the requirements of the antenna into account, as this can make a huge ...

This application note details the variety of antennas that are used in today’s handheld transmitter applications, such as remote keyless entry (RKE) systems, tire pressure monitors (TPMs), garage door ...

The answer: It depends. Automated electrical rules to check for PCB correctness based on vendor guidelines are easier to run, though less accurate than looking at SI simulation waveforms. Hardware ...