If you cultivate an interest in building radios it’s likely that you’ll at some point make a simple receiver. Perhaps a regenerative receiver, or maybe a direct conversion design, it’ll take a couple ...

The past year has seen some serious and credible alternatives to the venerable superheterodyne receiver architecture. Zero-IF and direct-to-baseband architectures, implemented by new ICs, have become ...

Receiver ICs with fully integrated VCOs are very welcome to the system designer because there is no need for external VCO components like varactor diodes or inductors. On the other hand, a fully ...

Back in November, Seth Colter Walls asked in Slate, “Why is no one talking about Jonny Greenwood’s excellent new recording?” Jonny Greenwood is lead guitarist for the always obsessed-over Radiohead, ...

Jonny Greenwood Teaches Radiohead Fans Some ClassArdent Greenwood fans braved the beer-less venue, sitting with varying levels of attentiveness through the two pieces not written by the guy who played ...

- a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified ...