A Microwave Journey, Part IV: The 1980s

摘要

Driven by social and political activity, which was responsible for increased investment in military R&D, significant advances in solid-state processing and design for RF/mi-crowave devices, modules and integrated circuits took place. Along with high-frequency device technology, advances in digital ICs provided the technology that would forever change the capabilities of test & measurement equipment and the computers that would host the new computer-aided design software that was becoming more abundant for microwave design. The industry would also be focused on developing methods to improve spectral efficiency to address the growing demand for data transmission. All these developments of the 1980s and the ending of the Cold War would provide the perfect alignment of resources, technology and need for new markets that would help our industry take on and achieve commercial success of an unprecedented scale-the wireless revolution of the 1990s.