RF2B can significantly enhance the quality and shorten the time to market for Satellite System providers & Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits developer/manufacturers, by providing a validation service based on a disruptive system level methodology and turnkey development of application reference Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit designs.
RF2B was founded in December 2012 by semiconductor veterans (NXP, Conexant, Rockwell, PCSI, National Semiconductors) with headquarter in the high technology area of San Diego, California.
Through 20+ years of experience with RF and semiconductor communication systems, we provide accelerated time to market solutions with outstanding customer product quality.
Services
RFIC Validation, Characterization and Troubleshooting Services
Through use of a state of the art RF lab and a seasoned RF circuits validation team RF2B offers comprehensive, efficient RF Integrated Circuits validation and full PVT characterization.
The service also includes guidance for product qualification (HTOL, ESD, LU, package qualification), final wafer and package test, as well as on wafer RF measurements.
Project definition can range from a full turnkey statement of work to side by side collaboration with customer engineers in the RF2B lab or your location.
RF2B also offers in-depth trouble shooting of integrated circuit issues with potential recommendation of circuit modifications for next device spin or future product development.
RF Application Reference Design
RF2B offers application specific RFIC reference developments per customer requirements.
The designs are form, fit and function compatible with customer application requests, with focus placed on low total cost and accelerated time to market of the final product.
RF2B’s development team utilizes its extensively aggregated customer reference design experience with various semiconductor companies and collaborations with ODMs.
Antenna and RF Circuits Design Services
RF2B offers custom antenna design services ranging from a few hundred MHz to 60 GHz.
Design accuracy and efficiency is accomplished through use of advanced full 3D FEM & FDTD design simulation and state of the art anechoic lab validation.
Projects
Dexcom
Medical device
- Designed and optimized Bluetooth antennas for several models
- Characterized and optimized BT transceiver
“Very proactive team interaction allowing us to dynamically adjust parameters during optimization efforts. Adapts to changing requirements as the project moved forward.
Was a good move for me as a manager to supplement internal resources and helped resolve a timely issue. Very thorough and detailed report was generated at the conclusion”
— Mike Ploof, HW Engineering Manager
Glysens
Wearable glucose sensor receiver and sensor implant
- Embedded MICS 434MHz antenna in a wrist band style device
- -14 dBi realized gain with human body load
- 2.4GHz ISM band antenna inside of implantable sensor
- 8dBi realized gain with human body load
“The test results are all saying your CAD simulation and actual measurements are very well correlated! And for such a complex device and body environment, it’s hard to imagine development going much better than this”.
–Tim Routh, VP of Operations
PDP
Xbox1 accessories
- Embedded dual band WiFi and Bluetooth antenna design
- Exceeded the Microsoft connectivity range requirement by 2X
Nextivity
LTE repeater
- Design of a front end antenna switch and transceiver combiner
- Ultra high linearity
“Nextivity has worked with RF2B on a number of projects in cases where we did not have enough internal resources to complete a project. Given the lack of internal resources, it was imperative for us to work with a team that was experienced, needed little direction from our internal resources and whom we could trust to get our project done on time and ready to be mass produced in our factory in China. The RF2B team excelled in all aspects. We can highly recommend working with Mats and his team. “
— Michiel Lotter, CTO
Catena
WiFi transceiver IC validation and reference design
- Validation of several versions of 802.11ac transceiver ICs
- Design of a 2 by 2 MIMO, dual band, 802.11ac reference design
“RF system validation is at best an arduous task. But performance measurements of 2×2 MIMO WiFi-11ax with 1024 QAM signal format is a serious challenge. Working with RF2B accelerated our product validation trajectory and delivered professional and accurate report that could be used directly for our customer engagements. “
— Kave Kianush, CTO