Femtocell Manufacturers Need To Stay Flexible
In the fast-moving wireless market, femtocell makers need to develop new products to stay competitive.
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Updated Software Tests For Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, And EMCVersion 4.0 of the Ansoft SIwave software from Ansys includes new features for signal-integrity, power-integrity, and electromagnetic-compatibility (EMC) testing. Its improved desktop graphical user interface (GUI) includes new post-processing of results. |
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Sprint Clears Telit CDMA M2M Module For Network Use
The CC864-DUAL, a CDMA dual-band cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications module from Telit Wireless Solutions Inc., has been approved for Sprint’s national 3G wireless network. With this certification, Telit M2M users can now gain Sprint coverage and use their M2M applications on the system....
Low-Frequency Quadrature Modulator Extends Transmitter Performance
The LTC5598 direct-conversion quadrature modulator from Linear Technology Corp. offers superior linearity performance and low noise to enhance the dynamic range performance of basestation transmitters, according to the company, with +27.7-dBm OIP3 and +74-dBm OIP2....
Receiver And Software Suite Accelerate GPS Navigation
Several Mio and Magellan PNDs now use the ROCm GPS technology from Atheros Communications. According to the company, its AR1511 single-chip GPS receiver and companion Orion 3.1 software suite deliver precise navigation using the Atheros AGPS technology, advanced parallel search, and superior tracking sensitivity....
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Next-Generation Bluetooth Chips Improve Audio And Pairing Features
Cell-phone headsets often face two problems: poor performance in noisy environments and inconvenient pairing processes that enable the headset and phone to talk to each other. Yet the BC6130, BC6140, and BC6150 BlueCore ROM Bluetooth chips from CSR not only solve these challenges, they also produce a new level of performance in cell-phone handsets....
DSPs Make Residential And Enterprise Femtos A Snap
Texas Instruments is certainly making it easier than ever to offer a femtocell unit for 2G/3G and even 4G systems using GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, and LTE thanks to its latest DSP family. The TMS320TCI6485 and TMS320TCI6489 both serve as the baseband component of a femtocell....
Monolithic 40-V Battery Chargers Decrease Power Dissipation
Designed for single-cell Li-ion/polymer batteries, the LT3650-4.1 and LT3650-4.2 monolithic, high-voltage battery chargers from Linear Technology Corp. come in a 9-mm² package. Their switch-mode architecture decreases power dissipation and uses little board space, according to Linear....
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Mobile Browser Tallies 1 Million Installations
The Bolt mobile browser from Bitstream Inc. has been installed in 1 million phones after just 19 weeks of availability. Designed for simple “feature” phones to advanced BlackBerry models, Bolt is consistently at least 25% to 30% faster than competing mobile browsers, the company claims....
Ceva, mimoOn Collaborate On LTE Baseband Solutions
Ceva Inc. and mimoOn GmbH will collaborate to offer mimoOn’s mi!MobilePHY advanced Long-Term Evolution (LTE) software on Ceva’s newest DSP core, the CEVA-XC. The full-featured and certified mi!MobilePHY LTE software solution targets user equipment based on the March 2009 version of 3GPP Standards Release 8. ...
Software Automatically Connects Android Phones To Wi-Fi Hotspots
WeFi Inc. has launched a version of its free software, which offers users automatic access to the best Wi-Fi connection available, for the Android mobile operating system....
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New Software Enables Mobile Phone Virtualization
The virtualization of computers has been going on for years in the enterprise to save on hardware and software costs, decrease power consumption, and generally improve efficiency. Commercial virtualization software is widely available. Now you can virtualize a handset, as Open Kernel Labs has announced software that brings the benefits of virtualization to cell phones...
Real-Time End-To-End LTE Demonstrated On Embedded Processors
mimoOn GmbH will demonstrate end-to-end LTE on platforms from Cavium Networks and ARM Ltd. The mimoOn mi!InfraStack advanced LTE software package will run on Cavium’s Octeon MIPS64 multicore processor on the infrastructure side, which is connected via a PHY emulation to an LTE UE mobile implementation by partner Qasara running on an embedded ARM 926 processor. ...
Femtocell Application Supports Location-Based Interfaces On Android Phones
Intrinsyc Software International and Ubiquisys have teamed up to develop UX-Zone, a femtocell application that automatically changes the appearance of Android phone interfaces as users enter their home or office. The application incorporates femtocell presence triggers from the Ubiquisys FemtoApps initiative. ...
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Computing Platform Targets Transportation And Logistics Markets
The Mobile Computing Platform 200 (MCP200) series from Qualcomm enables fleet managers to access crucial data about their vehicles, drivers, cargo, and trailers in real time, increasing back-office efficiency. ...
Computing Platform Targets Transportation And Logistics Markets
The Mobile Computing Platform 200 (MCP200) series from Qualcomm enables fleet managers to access crucial data about their vehicles, drivers, cargo, and trailers in real time, increasing back-office efficiency. ...
External Module Provides Mobile TV
The Technology Partnership (TTP) has demonstrated a new way to put broadcast TV on a cell phone. Instead of embedding a TV receiver chip on the main cell-phone printed-circuit board (PCB), TTP recommends packaging it into a separate module (see the figure). The headset cable houses the antenna, and the receiver module sends video to the handset by Bluetooth 2.0. ...
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China Mobile Taps T3G To Develop Handsets
China Mobile has selected T3G, ST-Ericsson’s company in China, as a major technology partner for the development of its high-end and low-cost handsets based on the TD-SCDMA 3G standard. ST-Ericsson also will support four of its customers to commercialize their mobile phones through 2010. ...
HSPA+ Successfully Tested In A Live 3G Network
Zain Saudi Arabia recently concluded a trial putting an Internet-HSPA (I-HSPA) software upgrade from Nokia Siemens Networks to the test within Zain’s existing radio access network, realizing significantly improved data throughput speeds....
Self-Organizing Network Accelerates LTE Deployment
Motorola Inc. has launched an advanced, self-organizing network (SON) that has been designed to help operators reduce the operational expenses from day one of the deployment of their Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network. This 3GPP Release 8 standards-compliant solution includes an improved architecture and leading algorithms that go beyond the specifications in the standards, according to the company. ...
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Web-Based Service Customizes Mobile Surfing Protection
Content Control 2.0 from Flash Networks enables parents to select which content they consider inappropriate or dangerous for Web-enabled mobile devices. It also allows parents to apply specific filtering for each mobile user....
Downloadable Fonts Let Consumers Personalize Their Mobile Phones
Most of us don’t think much about the font on our cell-phone screens, but we should. It makes a huge difference in readability. And like wallpaper and ringtones, different fonts allow users to customize their phones. The FlipFont software from Monotype Imaging offers 19 unique fonts in different sizes for a wide range of handsets, giving customers a host of choices to match a mood or look. ...
Personalized 2D Barcodes Suit Marketing Campaigns
With MTag’s Tune Your Tag service, companies can brand their own 2D barcode tags with custom designs including full-color logos and other elements that capture their visual identities. ...
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In An Evolving Market, Femtocell Manufacturers Need To Stay Flexible
In the fast-moving wireless market, femtocell makers need to develop new products to stay competitive. Yet developing new ICs for new standards or frequencies could take typically two to three years, from conception to volume production. Programmable silicon designed specifically for femtocells may fill the gap....
New Solutions Put Wireless To The Test
With wireless technology finding its way into all sorts of devices and commercial applications, test engineers are increasingly demanding complete RF test solutions oriented around particular chipset vendors. Test equipment vendors have been quick to react to this demand by collaborating with manufacturing test engineers and silicon vendors to make it easier and quicker for test engineers to design and test wireless devices and products. ...
Herd Your Widgets To Bring The Cool Factor To The Masses
While one widget is good and two widgets are better, a phone full of widgets represents a serious design challenge for software developers, handset manufacturers, and mobile carriers alike. With more and more widgets demanding access to the same limited pool of handset resources, something always has to give. ...
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Updated Software Tests For Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, And EMC
Version 4.0 of the Ansoft SIwave software from Ansys includes new features for signal-integrity, power-integrity, and electromagnetic-compatibility (EMC) testing. Its improved desktop graphical user interface (GUI) includes new post-processing of results....
Test System Supports DC-HSDPA
The TM500 from Aeroflex now supports the 3GPP W-CDMA Release 8 DC-HSDPA feature. DC-HSDPA extends the resource utilization and spectrum efficiency of existing W-CDMA networks by providing an alternative method to HSPA+ to increase peak data rates in the downlink to a maximum of 42 Mbits/s....
Scopes Provide Big Screen For Broad Measurement
The six models in the Infiniium 9000 series of mixed-signal and digital oscilloscopes offer the broadest measurement capability with true analog bandwidths up to 4 GHz, impressive scope performance, and built-in logic and protocol analysis, according to the company....
