RF Response ConsultingRF Response is a boutique Electrical Engineering Consulting company specializing in RF (Radio Frequency). Our goal is to provide personalized RF support for our clients, from initial design, prototypes (MVP - minimum viable product) and performance optimization to verification testing, certification, data analysis and manufacturing.
Limited hardware resources? Tight schedule? Technical challenges? We can help! Whether your design includes Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth (BLE), Cellular (LTE-M, Cat-M1, NB-IoT, UMTS, GSM, CDMA),GNSS (GPS, GLONASS), MOCA, DOCSIS or IoT specific technologies, we can help save you time and money! RF module or chip down solution for your IoT your design? Selecting the ideal technology for your product can be tricky. How best to integrate a Wi-Fi, ZigBee (802.15.4) , Bluetooth, Cat-M1, NB-IoT or UWB (Ultra Wide Band) module into your design? Considering a discrete, chip down solution for more customization and long term cost savings? We can help with component selection, system architecture, hardware and software integration, link budget, block specifications for discrete and integrated solutions. Are you getting the range and performance you expected? Customer complaints, dropped connections or insufficient range? There are several factors that can impact a radio link's performance such as antenna grounding, impedance matching, antenna placement, polarization, enclosure type, mounting surfaces, etc. RF Response can support all aspects of your performance optimization. How to optimize your RF schematic and layout? Interpretation of manufacturer's guidelines can be tricky. How do you know if you have sufficient filtering, bypassing and grounding for your specific design? Need help to identify potential EMI/EMC (electromagnetic interference) issues on your PCB? Have all critical traces been isolated? Coupling concerns between RF and digital circuits? Thermal constraints? We can optimize your design for best performance and reduce board spins. How do you reliably test your design while saving time and money? Is your test setup equipped to collect automated data? No need to collect data manually even for small tasks, we can design test software to collect and process data into something easy to interpret, while detecting subtle problems. What type of Certifications does your product require? Different countries have various certification requirements. Selling in the US? We can help you understand the FCC and US carrier requirements. Canada, Europe, Japan or elsewhere? We work with several certification test labs to assure your product meets all requirements. Ready for production? Your prototype works great, but how to be sure it is ready for production? Our experience with mass production can help you maximize throughput, yield, and quality. 
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Testimonials
"RF Response has been incredibly helpful to the Notion team. They've been prompt, professional, and capable at every turn. I wholeheartedly recommend RF Response for anyone looking for consultation and recommendations on the RF side of development."
Ryan Margoles Co-Founder and CTO 
"RF Response has done great work for us. Their RF knowledge and their attention to detail have helped Cardinal Peak provide world-class engineering services to many clients.”
Howdy Pierce Chairman and Founder 
"RF Response provided multi-disciplinary RF electronics design and layout on a recent project for BluFlux, as well as managed the fabrication, assembly and first-article test. We were pleased with their pace, responsiveness and the quality of the final product we got from them. We look forward to working with them in the future.”
Ben Wilmhoff President and Founder "If you have any serious EMI issues these guys can help. I've been in the EMI business for 30 years and they are some of the best I have worked with. Excellent at board layout review for EMI, professional, friendly guys."
Dennis King Senior EMC Engineer - EMI Test Lab LLC 
"We utilized RF Response for both pre-layout and post-layout design reviews for our latest iteration of the hardware – a relatively complex wearable with two RF modules. With 80% of the functionality checked out we're still at zero defects due to their very thorough and thoughtful analysis. When it eventually comes to performance and regulatory testing, I will be sleeping much better knowing that RF Response is on point."
Tony Dobaj CEO, AST |
"The RF Response team is one of the best experiences we have had with consultants. As a small startup we do a lot of learning on the fly, but unfortunately Radio Frequency is not a discipline you can really teach yourself in a realistic amount of time. After several years of R&D and working through the manufacturing process, we came to the abrupt realization that there were some major regulation hurdles to overcome. Fortunately, RF Response to the rescue!
Our product is a wearable IoT device that uses a BLE System-on-Chip MCU. We came to RF Response with our product's preliminary EMC test results, and asking "we need this fixed and verified as quickly as possible" so that we could pass the necessary certifications in order to get to market. Over the next several months, our electrical engineering team worked side by side with Andreas and Allison running tests and implementing design improvements. RF Response was professional, efficient, responsive, and taught us a great amount.
I'm happy to report that our EMC results, as well as various other necessary tests, are looking terrific! We are entering into formal testing as one of the final steps to get to market. Thank you RF Response for helping make this startup's dreams a reality!"
Dan Evans
CTO and Co-Founder
Our product is a wearable IoT device that uses a BLE System-on-Chip MCU. We came to RF Response with our product's preliminary EMC test results, and asking "we need this fixed and verified as quickly as possible" so that we could pass the necessary certifications in order to get to market. Over the next several months, our electrical engineering team worked side by side with Andreas and Allison running tests and implementing design improvements. RF Response was professional, efficient, responsive, and taught us a great amount.
I'm happy to report that our EMC results, as well as various other necessary tests, are looking terrific! We are entering into formal testing as one of the final steps to get to market. Thank you RF Response for helping make this startup's dreams a reality!"
Dan Evans
CTO and Co-Founder