Many RFICs today use differential ports to transmit and receive RF power. This makes the use of balanced antennas an attractive proposition, as one can do away with the balun normally needed to convert the differential RF power at the IC ports to single ended signals that can be fed to an SMA connected antenna or RF instrument. This document describes a simple half wave dipole antenna that is easy to integrate on a PCB and works well with all CC253X and CC254X RFIC’s from Texas Instruments.
