Milpitas, Calif.—The fabs at Linear Technology Corp (LTC) are dishing up dual-channel RF detector chips that work out to 11-GHz. LTC's LTC5533 can therefore be used to measure RF power in multi-band ...

Santa Clara, CA —National Semiconductor Corporation introduced a family of RF power detectors for wireless applications that require high frequency and range, such as mobile phone power controls and ...

To address the challenge of improving power-added efficiency (PAE) for high-powered amplifiers, Analog Devices developed the ADL5511 TruPwr rms and envelope detector. The chip combines two RF ...

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 ...