On the brink of what he calls his “sixth career, whatever that’s going to turn out to be,” Robert M. Metcalfe shares some of the earliest stories from the technology’s history. Regarded as the “Father of Ethernet,” Metcalfe is credited with co-inventing Ethernet while working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973.
Explore cascaded amplifiers, revealing how a single driver can dominate performance in a four-parallel setup and how optimized input power can reduce AM-to-PM distortion for maximum...
See how an X-band SSB upconverter built with Mini-Circuits components uses IQ mixing to suppress unwanted sidebands and boost spectral efficiency for applications from 5G to radar...
Mini-Circuits VP of Engineering Joe Merenda explains additive phase noise (APN) in RF amplifiers, covering theory, measurement, specifications, and small vs. large signal behavior...
The new M4SWA4-34DR+ SP4T MMIC switch delivers fast, wideband signal routing from DC to 30 GHz, with superior power handling, quick switching, and cost advantages over SOI devices...