We have all seen Printed Circuit Board (PCB) antennas: those squiggly bits of traces on PCBs connected often to a Bluetooth, WiFi or other wireless communication chip. On modules like for the ESP8266 ...

There are design challenges for antennas, PCB connectors and components, advise Ifan Yousaf and David Currie, of TE. The environment of smart devices presents design challenges. Electronic devices are ...

Antennas are sensitive to their surroundings. Thus, when there’s an antenna on the PCB, the layout for the design should take the requirements of the antenna into account, as this can make a huge ...

Antenova has created a new software tool to help designers place antennas in a wireless design. The tool displays the optimum position for embedded antennas on the PCB, depending upon the dimensions ...

Ignion, a Barcelona based IoT antenna developer, has released Oxion 2.0, an AI-driven RF and antenna design tool. RF design tool supports complex RF layouts Credit: Ignion Developed to simplify design ...

The very mention of RF design is usually enough to scare all but the most confident designer. However, wireless specialists such as the company I work for, Nordic Semiconductor, have worked hard to ...

GPU-accelerated electromagnetic simulation is redefining how engineers design and validate antennas in complex, electrically ...

This document describes a PCB antenna design that can be used with 2.4 GHz transceivers and transmitters. Maximum gain is measured to be +3.3 dB and overall size requirements for this antenna are 25.7 ...

Have you ever built a wireless project and weren’t sure how to make one of those awesome (and cheap!) PCB antennas? “What low-cost solutions does our Antenna Board #referencedesign contain?” said ...

Acal Technology is sampling a new surface mount dielectric antenna from Advanced Crystal Technology which it says combines competitive pricing with a choice of compact footprints and the flexibility ...