Hardware Design

High-Efficiency USB Power Manager And Charger Fits One-Cell LiFePO4 Batteries 

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....

Beamforming Antennas Fit Microwave Applications 

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...

Efficient Power Amplifiers Support 3G WCDMA And HSPA Devices 

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...

SAR ADC Cuts Power By 50% 

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%...

Linear Voltage-Controlled Attenuator Operates Over Wide RF Range 

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...

Super-Sensitive Schottky Diode Fits Applications To 10 GHz 

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...

Multicore DSPs Suit Wireless Infrastructure And Video 

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...

Class D Amps Extend Battery Life And Reduce EMI 

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...

Get More ESD Protection In The Same Space 

The STMicroelectronics ESDA6V1-5TG provides an extra channel of ESD protection for netbooks and smart phones within the same dimensions as competing alternatives...

5-GHz Differential Amp Solves The Drive Problem 

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...

RF Chip Makes Multimode Design A Snap 

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...

Dual-CPU Chipsets Now Sampling 

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...

System Makes M2M Data Acquisition Easy 

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...

Femtocell And Picocell Power Amps Exhibit Great Linearity 

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...

4G SoCs Manage The Data Explosion With New Basestation Designs 

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...

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