8 Experts on Overcoming Challenges of RF Solution Design 18
"The goal is to solve the problem by achieving the requirement
with minimum effort and at the lowest cost."
Alfred Ip
Senior RF Systems Engineer
Amazon Lab126
Alfred Ip is the Wireless Systems
department lead engineer at Amazon
Lab126. He has more than twenty years
of experience in multiple RF hardware
disciplines, including RF circuit, RF systems,
and antenna designs, and has worked in
multiple wireless industries, including RFIC,
consumer electronics, industrial equipment,
and medical devices. He has a passion for
creating wireless devices that can change or
enhance customers' life experiences.
To address the challenges of developing a wireless solution, you must first understand
what the wireless solution needs to do. This in turn means understanding basic
performance requirements. Those requirements are embedded in customer
expectations about how the solution will operate in its intended use case environment.
Only by knowing exactly what the solution must do can you translate that information into
engineering requirements, and then make decisions that balance competing aspects of
the design.
Every engineering team must make decisions about the look of a product, how
much innovation it will include, its communication range and speed, and power
consumption, each of which influences the others. For example, if you want longer-range
communications, you may need a higher milliampere-hour (mA-h) battery, which would
determine battery size and selection. These factors affect two other key considerations:
cost and time to market. We want more features and a better-looking, more innovative
product that we can produce at low cost and get to market quickly. Designing a wireless
solution is always a balancing act.
Gain Wireless Connectivity with Less Engineering
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