Engineering Tradeoffs — question 8 of 10
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Assume you have basic RF layout knowledge but have never designed an antenna matching network from scratch, and no certification lab access.
You need to add wireless connectivity to a sensor board for a one-month class demo. Would you use a pre-certified, plug-in Bluetooth module, or design your own radio circuit around a bare RF chip and antenna? Walk through your reasoning, then tell me how your answer changes if this design were instead headed toward a production run of 100,000 units.