The University of Kaiserslautern and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany, have developed a prototype portable DRM+ receiver from commercially available parts. This ...

Which pocket radio is best? Even when you have a smartphone, pocket radios are still handy devices to have. During a power outage, a pocket radio can be used to receive life-saving information, and ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. has announced the first single-chip FM radio transceiver family. The proven, patented digital architecture of the Si472x transceiver combines the functionality of the Si470x ...

Half the population of Syria has been displaced. Hundreds of thousands have died in the conflict and millions are fleeing. For those who remain in the country, critical infrastructure is unstable and ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. has announced the extension of its broadcast audio product portfolio to include the Si473x AM/FM receiver family. The Si473x enables an AM/FM receiver to be easily added to ...

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has advocated for the activation of FM radio receivers built into nearly every smartphone, as part of opening remarks he made at the Future of Radio and Audio Symposium in ...

Question: I am disappointed in the electronics industry regarding a specific niche I think is being ignored by radio manufacturers. My wife and I listen to the local NPR station in St. Paul, Minn., in ...

As any radio amateur will tell you, the world of radio abounds with exciting possibilities. Probably the simplest pursuit of them all is that of the SWL, or short wave listener, who scours the ...

Testing FM receivers is not that much different than testing other pieces of audio equipment. Appropriate tests include the big six: level, frequency response, THD+N, phase, interchannel crosstalk, ...