Top Stories: October 2025

Here are some of the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the month of October.
Oct. 17, 2025

Here's a selection of this month's articles on Microwaves & RF. Keep checking back as more content is added during the month. Take a look at the latest newsletters. You can also visit archived versions of Top Stories of the Week

Featured Content

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It’s not too late to develop a standardized framework for testing ground-station satellite-communications antennas that will serve to prolong the antennas’ operational life and...
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The pursuit of resilient timing systems is more critical than ever as the RF spectrum becomes more contested by the day, threatening the performance of devices in the cloud.
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This article examines the concept of spectral purity from various perspectives, including spurs, phase noise, and harmonics. All have implications for the accuracy of RF measurements...
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Timing in modern embedded systems involves much more than just being able to determine the time of day.

Multimedia

Here are our latest videos for the month. 

Spectral Stitching Gooses Radar Component Test to Instantaneous Bandwidth of 7
NI/Emerson’s Vector Signal Transceiver forms the foundation of a functional and parametric test setup for a range of RF radar system components.
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Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks Serve Low-Power & Remote Duties
In a video demonstration, Microchip Technology’s chip-scale atomic clocks reveal their low phase noise and application versatility.
FG23L Wireless SoC Offers High Performance for Sub-GHz IoT
Silicon Labs’ new FG23L is an IoT/IIoT connectivity device that balances performance and cost to target resource-constrained applications.

More of This Month's Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content that's new this month on Microwaves & RF. Here are some others: 

Synaptics
Synaptics Launches the Next Generation of Astra Multimodal GenAI Processors to Power the Future of the Intelligent IoT Edge.
Synaptics' next generation of Astra multimodal GenAI processors are aimed at powering the future of the intelligent IoT edge.
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Rohde & Schwarz unveils compact MXO 3 oscilloscopes with 4 and 8 channels.
Powered by the same next-generation MXO oscilloscope technology from Rohde & Schwarz, originally pioneered in the MXO 4 and MXO 5/5C series, these latest scopes offer high performance...
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Semtech’s LPWA modules and unified management platform pair with Skylo’s global non-terrestrial network to facilitate true device-to-cloud IoT connectivity.
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Promoting more secure AI and ML models, Infineon’s OPTIGA Trust M backs Thistle Technologies’ secure edge AI solution.
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The U.S. Army is turning to transportable satcom terminals capable of handling as many as 32 satellite modems each to boost portable, high-throughput communications around the...
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A GPS satellite orbiting the Earth.
Russian jamming is causing concerns for the safety of civil aviation across the Baltic Sea region—even to the extent of grounding flights.

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David Maliniak

Executive Editor, Microwaves & RF

I am Executive Editor of Microwaves & RF, an all-digital publication that broadly covers all aspects of wireless communications. More particularly, we're keeping a close eye on technologies in the consumer-oriented 5G, 6G, IoT, M2M, and V2X markets, in which much of the wireless market's growth will occur in this decade and beyond. I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, developers, and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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About me:

In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy, leaving to rejoin the EOEM B2B publishing world in January 2020. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.

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