Hardware Design
Jul 30, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The LTC4098-3.6 autonomous high-efficiency power manager, ideal diode controller, and battery charger for one-cell LiFePO4 batteries from Linear Technology targets portable devices such as media players, digital cameras, PDAs, personal navigators, and especially high-peak-power and safety-critical equipment....
Jul 23, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The SelectaBeam SP-2510 antennas from Plasma Antennas Ltd. target novel system architectures and protocols that support the next generation of wireless mesh networks. These high-performance selectable multi-beam antennas operate from 5.3 to 5.8 GHz...
Jul 23, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Designed for 3G mobile devices running on WCDMA and allied technologies like HSPA, the AWT66xx single-band power amplifiers from Anadigics deliver a 50% reduction in current consumption where mobile devices operate most frequently...
Jul 20, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The 12-bit, 2.2-V ADS7924 SAR ADC from Texas Instruments uses intelligent system power-management features to work with any low-power system that requires sensor monitoring to potentially lower power across the system by more than 50%...
Jul 13, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
Designed as a general-purpose block for high-performance wireless infrastructure applications, the Maxim Integrated Products MAX19790 operates from 250 to 4000 MHz and delivers 44 dB of linearly controlled dynamic range with a significant S21 flatness over frequency and all attenuation settings...
Jul 2, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The Skyworks Solutions SMS7621-040LF Schottky diode suits applications that can reach the 10-GHz range in detector circuits, sampling circuits, and mixer circuits in WLANs, cable television, satellite communications, land mobile radio, and infrastructure and military sectors...
Jul 1, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The OCT220 family of power-efficient DSP solutions from Octasic targets media gateways and HD video and wireless systems. In particular, the OCT2224W fits wireless baseband applications...
Jun 22, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The MAX98300 and MAX98302 mono/stereo 2.4-W/channel class D amplifiers from Maxim Integrated Products achieve the industry’s lowest power consumption. Also, they don’t need any EMI-suppression components...
Jun 18, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The STMicroelectronics ESDA6V1-5TG provides an extra channel of ESD protection for netbooks and smart phones within the same dimensions as competing alternatives...
Jun 15, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The 5-GHz ADA4960-1 differential amplifier from Analog Devices drives a wide variety of high-speed ADCs with 10-bit linearity to 500 MHz and 8-bit linearity up to 1 GHz...
Jun 8, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The Fujitsu MB86L10A RF transceiver covers LTE as well as UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA and GSM/EDGE. Ranging from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz, it also boasts backward compatibility with a high-level programming model for radio control using DigRF/MIPI D3G and D4G open standard digital interfaces...
Jun 1, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Qualcomm is now sampling its dual-CPU Snapdragon MSM8260 and MSM8660 chipsets, which integrate two of the company’s enhanced cores running at up to 1.2 GHz and are designed to enable high-end smart phones...
May 26, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
With the R-LITE family of easy-to-use, GSM/GPRS remote monitoring systems from Saelig Company, you can transmit crucial information directly to your cell phone or to a secure Web site from anywhere in the world. Real-time information can be automatically transmitted at scheduled intervals or simply queried by sending an SMS inquiry...
May 24, 2010,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The Anadigics AWB7127 and AWB7123 PAs target femtocells, picocells, and in-home CPE. These highly efficient and linear devices also can support complex modulation schemes such as those used in WCDMA, HSDPA, and LTE interfaces...
May 21, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The DesignArt Networks DAN3400 and DAN3100 SoCs provides a complete end-to-end development framework for any type of basestation product ranging from picocell access points to large-scale distributed macro BTS applications using any kind of mobile 2G, 3G, or 4G technology...