Improving Wafer-Level S-Parameters Measurement Accuracy And Stability With Probe-Tip Power Calibration Up To 110 GHz For 5G Applications


Author: Choon Beng Sia, FormFactor Inc., Singapore Demands for mission critical wireless services such as autonomous driving and telehealth require higher data transfer rates and lower latencies. Such applications are now driving the use of radio frequencies (RF) at 28, 38, 60 and 73 GHz for the emerging 5G mobile communication systems. Waferlevel RF measurements of devices or circuits for 5... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power


Tools & IP Cadence introduced the Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP, which provides up to 1.82 TOPS and is specifically optimized for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The DSP has a very long instruction word (VLIW) SIMD architecture, an enhanced instruction set supporting 8/16/32-bit data types and optional VFPU support for single and half precision, and a number of iDMA enhancements in... » read more