EDN

Design an all-digital modulator with an RF output

A software-defined radio (SDR) terminal promotes programmable realizations of the physical layer functionalities. A lot of research work has been done in applying DSPs and FPGAs to implement the ...
Silicon Semiconductor

Photon Design launches HAROLD QD laser simulator and silicon modulator design tool

Photon Design will showcase its newly released HAROLD QD laser simulator and silicon modulator design tool, at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2026), 15–19 March 2026, ...
EDN

Audio modulator design cuts size, cost of pro speakers

A sound amplification technique from SLS Loudspeakers (Springfield, MO) promises to reduce the size and cost of high-power, professional quality speakers. The approach, dubbed Evenstar, uses a pair of ...
Electronic Design

Standard CMOS Yields Integrated Photonic 100-Gb/s Optical Modulator

Due to materials realities and device physics, it’s challenging to develop high-performance optical transceiver functions on standard CMOS processes, but the potential benefits of such photonic ...
Nasdaq

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Achieve Breakthrough in 400G/Lane Silicon Photonics Platform for Next-Generation Optical Communications

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor have announced a successful demonstration of a 400G/lane modulator on Tower's silicon photonics platform, PH18DA, which achieves over a 3.5dB extinction ratio using ...
Electronic Design

QPSK Demodulator Is A Good Match For Low-Cost Modulator

This demodulator is suitable for the quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) modulator previously published by the same author, "Novel Low-Cost QPSK Modulator Needs No Adjustments" (electronic design, ...