TD-LTE Femto Basestation Features Verified

TD-LTE Femto Basestation Features Verified

ASTRI has successfully verified its TD-LTE femto basestations using equipment provided by Rohde & Schwarz. ASTRI and R&S tested the HARQ and timing-advance functionality of the basestations under real-time conditions for the first time.

Hardware Design View more

AISG-Compliant Transceiver Fits Into A Hundredth Of The Space

The single-chip MAX9947 fully integrated AISG-compliant transceiver from Maxim Integrated Products packs a transmitter, receiver, and active filters into a 3- by 3-mm TQFN package that is one-hundredth the size of discrete solutions....

SoCs Enable Next-Generation Baseband Processing For Data

Mindspeed Technologies Transcede T4000 And T4020 SoCs Enable Next-Generation Baseband Processing For Data...

Chips Improve GPS, Wi-Fi Performance

The Atheros Communications AR6003 single-chip 802.11n Wi-Fi transceiver and AR1520 single-chip GPS solution deliver performance that’s better than ever in mobile applications. ...

Tutorials View more

Use Scalable Fonts In Your Mobile Environments

Because of their scalable nature, scalable fonts and font technologies are smarter to implement than fixed-in-size bitmap fonts to support text across a wide spectrum of mobile phones and applications....

Smart Mobiles Continue Upward Growth With New Models

Growth in the smart-phone market and related devices will continue into 2010, though the increase in traffic will give carriers some challenges to solve—and plenty of headaches....

The iPad—Another Apple Hit?

With the iPad, Apple has given us exactly what we imagined, a product that’s sort of a cross between a laptop and a smart phone. What can you do with it? Almost anything you want in a mobile multimedia device....

Hardware News View more

Capacitive Touchscreen Targets Laptops, Netbooks, And Tablets

Cypress Semiconductor has demonstrated a tablet-sized capacitive touchscreen technology with unlimited finger-tracking capability. Based on the company’s TrueTouch solution for smaller portable electronics, the technology will power touchscreens...

TI, eInk Collaborate On E-book Technology

E Ink Corp. and Texas Instruments will collaborate to combine E Ink’s Vizplex EPDs with TI technologies. As a result, the companies say, e-book manufacturers will have access to the world’s first PMIC for E Ink EPDs....

Apple Announces The iPad

With all the functionality of notebooks and netbooks plus the latest crop of e-readers, Apple announced its long awaited iPad at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco today. Standard connectivity is via Wi-Fi, with 3G an option....

Software News View more

Symbian Platform Source Code Now Fully Available For Free

The Symbian Foundation has completed the open-source release of its source code for the Symbian platform, which the organization calls the world’s most widely used smart-phone platform....

Instant-On Operating System Targets Netbooks

DeviceVM’s Splashtop 2.0 provides instant access to a customizable launch dock that incorporates Web-based and local applications for netbooks. It allows consumers to rapidly access the Web and key software applications without booting their computer’s main operating system....

MIPS And Tensilica Team Up To Spur Development Of Android Devices

MIPS Technologies and Tensilica will work together to accelerate system-on-a-chip (SOC) design activity for mobile devices running Google’s Android operating system. The companies will display a demo of a MIPS32 processor core integrated with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio digital signal processor (DSP) at the International CES in Las Vegas next month. ...

Software Design View more

Updated RTOS Broadens Multicore Capabilities And Processor Support

Version 6.8 of Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS delivers improvements in multicore support and fundamental OS features, decreasing time-to-market while lowering costs and improving quality for device manufacturers, according to the company. ...

Development Kit Targets Next-Generation E-Readers

Skiff LLC and Marvell have teamed up for the Skiff Reader Development Kit (RDK), which is designed to enable manufacturers to more easily create innovative reading devices with various display sizes, fast performance, and reduced overall component costs....

Optimized Hardware/Software Accelerates Time-To-Market For LTE Systems

One of the key challenges in implementing Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in the forthcoming infrastructure change is scalability. With Continuous Computing’s Trillium FastPath system, carriers can build their systems to serve small cellular needs but then easily expand to handle the mass deployments that are sure to come....

Standards Regulations View more

Report Calls 2.6-GHz Band Vital To Mobile Broadband Success

The licensing of the 2.6-GHz band, which the ITU calls the “3G extension band,” will be critical to unlocking the benefits of global-scale economies in the mobile broadband market, according to a report by Global View Partners in partnership with GSMA....

LTE Device Certification Expected By The End of 2010

The Global Certification Forum is on schedule to release an LTE device certification scheme by the end of 2010. According to the group, that should be in time for a wave of commercial network launches also expected toward the end of the year....

2009 Shows Tremendous Growth For WiMAX

WiMAX Internet deployments have reached 519 in 146 countries, including 95 WiMAX networks deployed by 2G operators, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. Of the 519 deployments, 112 were added in 2009, while 86 products received WiMAX Forum Certified status....

New Applications View more

Free Maps App Tops 1 Million Downloads In A Week

Since its January 21 launch, the new version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times. It is a key part of Nokia’s strategy for the mobile maps, navigation, and location-based services markets....

Motorola Opens Apps Store In China

Motorola’s SHOP4APPS, which will be open by February 14, will offer applications designed to customize Android-based Motorola phones in China. It also developers a set of resources, starting with tools for testing their applications, as well as marketing and promotional tools for marketing their applications to end users...

$1 Million Offered In 4G Development Prizes

The YTL Communications Sdn Bhd “mYprize” Global Developer Challenge offers $1 million in prizes to inspire entrepreneurs and innovators around the world to create new 4G mobile Internet products and services for Malaysian deployment. ...

Test Time View more

TD-LTE Femto Basestation Features Verified

ASTRI has successfully verified its TD-LTE femto basestations using equipment provided by Rohde & Schwarz. ASTRI and R&S tested the HARQ and timing-advance functionality of the basestations under real-time conditions for the first time....

Software Suite Provides Automated Testing For Mobile WiMAX Devices

Engineers can use the National Instruments Measurement Suite for Mobile WiMAX software suite with modular RF instrumentation for the automated testing of Mobile WiMAX devices....

LG, Anritsu Demonstrate LTE USB Modem Performance

During the 2010 International CES, LG and Anritsu demonstrated maximum download speeds from a simulated LTE network to the LG LTE USB modem with the MD8430A Signaling Tester serving as the LTE basestation and network simulator. The MX786201A RTD software was used for test automation. ...

Security View more

"Bump In The Wire" Chip Adds Security Without A Redesign

The SentryFlow 9150 Applied Services Processor (ASP) from Hifn is a single-chip solution for adding full security to any communications or networking application, such as wireless backhaul aggregation...

Security Solution Protects Against New WPA Vulnerability

AirMagnet says its Enterprise 8.0 is the only Wi-Fi security package that protects against a recently discovered vulnerability in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)...

Study Reveals Clamor For Clamshells With Fingerprint Security

A study conducted by AuthenTec, Inc. has revealed that people would like the ability to lockdown their mobile devices with a fingerprint scanner embedded in the device...

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