Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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If you have a PCB antenna on your board, you need to know this. Thank you very much Kaja Sørbotten from Nordic Semiconductor.

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- Nordic Semiconductor: nordicsemi.com
- FEDEVEL courses: fedevel.com/courses

Chapters:
00:00 What this video is about
03:53 Starting PCB antenna design (example nRF5340)
09:18 Where to get information about antenna dimensions
11:59 Antenna components and connection
18:24 Antenna and component placement
22:29 What is important in antenna PCB layout
27:18 AppCAD calculator
31:41 Common mistakes in PCB antenna designs
39:27 Measuring antenna output from the chip
43:20 Carrier frequency adjustment
50:58 Measuring output power and harmonics
59:10 Antenna output with matching components populated
1:02:47 Matching the antenna input
1:09:44 Calibrating cable
1:15:06 Measuring an antenna
1:16:55 Finding out capacitor value for antenna matching
1:23:08 Adjusting antenna length and measuring it
1:27:52 Done

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