Hardware
Core competencies for RF engineering
- Link budgets, data rate, and throughput estimations
- 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation
- Antenna design
- Antenna prototyping
- Benchtop design validation testing up to 20 GHz
- Radio selection
- Protocol testing and analysis
- RF circuit analysis
- RF circuit design
- RF PCB layout
- Antenna characterization (coming soon)
- Radiated testing up to 18 GHz (coming soon)
- FCC prescreening (coming soon)
- RF desense (coming soon)
RF engineering services at Fresh
A good RF layout can be the difference between success and failure. Our team has the industry experience and cross-disciplinary technical background to design and develop custom RF solutions or integrate off-the-shelf solutions, taking your product from concept to market for applications up to 18 GHz.
Our end-to-end RF engineering services include:
+ RF engineers working side-by-side with electrical, PCB, firmware, software, and mechanical engineers.
+ Integration with industrial design, UI/UX design, cloud architecture, and app development team members.
+ One partner to help you design, prototype, and test your RF solution under one roof and achieve optimized performance for your integrated wireless product.
Comprehensive RF engineering lab technology
Our on-site RF benchtop testing lab features a versatile suite of measurement equipment from Rohde & Schwarz to meet a variety of RF testing needs from 2 Hz to 26.5 GHz.
Contact us to learn about our characterization and RF-related PCB layout review, in addition to troubleshooting services and our included protocol measurement licenses, to create designs that perform as expected.
Example RF technologies we can help you design
Bluetooth® & BLE
WiFi
RFID/NFC
Ultra-wideband (UWB)
Wireless charging
900MHz (Zigbee, LoRa, and other sub Gig)
GNSS (including GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo)
4G cellular
Sub-6 5G FR1
Testing SW licenses available today:
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/j/p
Digital Standard IEEE 802.11ax
Bluetooth® including Enhanced Data Rate (VSG only)
Bluetooth® 5.x (VSG only)
NFC A/B/F
HRP UWB for R&S®SMW200A
Don’t see what you need on the list? Contact us to learn more about additional license options.
Rapid prototyping for RF applications
The Fresh RF engineering team has invested in an LPKF ProtoMat S104 advanced mechanical milling system to provide rapid on-site prototyping of our antenna designs. This mechanical mill is capable of producing both single and double-sided prototypes.
With its 100,000 rpm spindle motor, 20-position auto-tool changer, 0.5µm resolution, and generous working area (9” x 12” x 0.3”), this mechanical mill is designed explicitly with RF applications in mind. We can manufacture a milled prototype in-house in as little as one day, significantly reducing the time from design to first article testing.
Coming soon: compact anechoic chamber
Fresh's RF engineers are preparing to install a compact anechoic chamber (25 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 12 feet high) to conduct on-site near-field antenna characterization from 1-18GHz to support our RF engineering consulting & RF design practice. We also plan to support informal testing for FCC Part 15/18 radiated emissions testing.
Our RF design process
See our full approach to the radio frequency design, from research through test support.
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