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Barriers to RF Engineering
More than ever, design engineers need ways to overcome barriers to entry and to find
solutions that simplify the entire design process. This means solutions that help bridge
knowledge gaps, meet tough standards more easily, ensure components and blocks
integrate cleanly, and ease modeling and testing. In short, this means removing as much
complexity as possible while ensuring end-to-end integrity, efficiency, and performance.
ADI is helping to break down barriers to RF engineering by taking on more responsibility
for complex circuitry and including more functionality in integrated circuits (ICs). This
allows RF engineers to focus more on block-level components than on the intricacies of
designing a discrete circuit. Specifically, ADI offers:
• In-depth RF expertise and application knowledge combined with 5G
system expertise.
• Integrated solutions that comprise the full frequency spectrum, make design
easier and more flexible, reduce expertise needed, and reduce the bill of
materials (BOM).
• Single-platform solutions via SoCs that meet performance requirements and
validate the combination of ICs.
• Software-defined, high-performance front-end solutions that meet rapidly
increasing demands for 5G solutions.
'' Our industry hasn't really
made the significant
gains in analog transistor
performance that is
required to meet the
high-frequency, high
-efficiency, and wide
-bandwidth 5G design
requirements. We
need to invest in core
-technology research."
Jay Kruse
Head of Hardware,
eero
