The Challenge of Mixed Signal Development

Designers creating next-generation designs need to intermix complex digital with RF elements for wireless consumer devices. As clock frequencies increase and circuit sizes shrink, engineers are finding a need to address the increasing analog behavior from digital components while dealing with a mixture of analog, digital and form factor requirements in these complicated designs. In the move to combined digital and RF technologies, these new design challenges grow in significance as designers endeavor to rapidly and correctly characterize their design.