Radio frequency

Reducing radio frequency inference has enabled multiple wireless technologies to co-exist within a few millimetres of one another, therefore antenna efficiency, RF isolation and antenna selectivity are all critical considerations.

In many data-gathering and wearable IoT applications, compact designs mandate the use of an on-board antenna. These antennas can be chip, patch or PIFA antennas, or embedded into the PCB itself.

Many factors affect the performance of these types of antenna including ground planes, position of other components, orientation of the unit, materials used in the outer casing, and proximity to the outer casing.

We offer a wide range of antennas specifically developed for every wireless technology standard.

• Cellular (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G)
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
• ISM bands including LoRaWAN™, SIGFOX and Zigbee
• GNSS (including BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS and GPS)
• NB-IoT – LTE CAT-M1/NB1
• Custom designs for non-standard frequencies

We offer a wide range of filters from some of the world’s leading manufacturers – including Tai-Saw, Johanson Technology and Sangshin – from surface mount through to custom mono-block - ensuring your signals are reliable, clean and precise, and noise is reduced to a minimum. 

Including band pass, high pass, low pass, SAW filters and duplexers for all types of IoT applications. These compact solutions are developed with easy RF design integration in mind to provide low-insertion and high-attenuation levels without compromising performance or cost.

Covering more than 700 designs for narrow and ultrawide bandwidths, frequency ranges from 500MHz to more than 6GHz. These solutions are available with extremely short sample and production lead times, are competitively priced and can be fully customised to meet you exact RF product requirements. AEC-Q200 automotive qualification is also available across many of our solutions.

Combining industry leading Power Amplifiers (Pas), Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) and switch functions into a single, laminate-based, multi-chip module.

Manufactured using their proprietary heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) power amplifier process and low-loss pseudomorphic high-electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) switch technologies, these FEMs will deliver superior performance to multiple applications, including automotive, smart home, industrial, M2M, medical, smart energy and wearables.

A single front-end module can efficiently increase the total performance of your wireless design, enabling you to reduce power consumption, increase efficiency or further the range of your design – from major chip manufacturers with a range of integrated FEMs to help you get the most from your design.

All wireless solutions use radio frequencies to communicate and transfer data and these frequencies interfere and impede the performance of other components within a design. Similarly, other components generate heat or interference, impacting the overall performance.

Shielding is typically applied to enclosures to isolate electrical devices from their surroundings, and to cables to isolate wires from the environment.

We cover an extensive choice of standard components through to high-quality products for electromagnetic shielding and heat dissipation from leading manufacturers.

We partner with the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world. Over the last two decades their solutions have empowered entirely new market segments, enabling designers and manufacturers to bring breakthrough products to market.

Their RF solutions are found on a global scale in thousands of volume products, including smart-home, automotive, wearables and industrial devices.

We offer a broad portfolio of RF switches for IoT designs, with every option delivering the must-have attributes of any component in a demanding application – value, reliability, and performance – three areas at which our switch solutions really excel.