LNAs Enhance Basestation RF Performance 

Sep 17, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The MGA-633P8, MGA-634P8, and MGA-635P8 LNAs from Avago Technologies enhance RF performance while enabling space and cost savings for both new and redesigned wireless infrastructure basestations...

Reference Design Abets Popular 4G LTE Chipset 

Sep 15, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The Altair Semiconductor Digital Dividend (Band 20) Reference Design embarks has completed IOT testing with tier-one infrastructure vendors. It features the company’s FourGee Long-Term Evolution (LTE) chipset and interoperability-tested software stack...

Dual-Digital VGA Reduces Solution Footprint By 32% 

Sep 13, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The MAX2063 from Maxim Integrated Products is the industry’s only fully programmable, multi-state, dual-channel, digital IF/RF variable-gain amplifier. It is an ideal choice for the “fast-attack” automatic gain circuits found in all 2.5H, 3G, and 4G wireless infrastructure transceivers...

Programmable DSP Core Boosts Performance And Power Efficiency 

Sep 9, 2010, Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief

The 1-GHz CEVA-X1643 DSP core from Ceva Inc. is designed to boost overall chip performance for a broad range of applications, including wireless and wireless communications, surveillance, and portable multimedia...

Tuners And Demodulators Make Free Mobile TV Happen 

Sep 8, 2010, Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief

The single-chip MxL111SF digital terrestrial receiver from MaxLinear includes an ATSC-M/H-compliant silicon tuner and USB interface. It can be used, for example, in a USB dongle designed to bring TV to a laptop or netbook...

VCXOs Reduce Jitter And Phase Noise 

Aug 27, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The PureEdge NBVSBAxx family of silicon-based VCXOs from On Semiconductor reduces costs and provides ultra-low jitter and phase noise compared to alternative solutions...

6-Gbit/s SATA Redriver/Equalizer Consumes 290 mW 

Aug 27, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The SN75LVCP601 dual-channel, single-lane serial ATA (SATA) redriver and signal conditioner from Texas Instruments features the lowest active power and automatic low-power mode of any 6-Gbit/s redriver/equalizer available today...

Video Processors Integrate Cortex-A8 And C64x For Media-Rich Applications 

Aug 20, 2010, MD&D News Staff

Integrating the ARM Cortex-A8 and C64x+ DSP core, imaging and video accelerator, 3D graphics processor, and high-performance peripherals on a single SoC, the Texas Instruments DaVinci DM3730 and DM3725 suit applications that require HD video processing or a large amount of data processing...

Dev Kit Speeds Basestation Design With Digital Pre-Distortion 

Aug 11, 2010

The Analog Devices MS-DPD high-performance development platform targets wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to quickly evaluate systems using digital pre-distortion techniques in multi-carrier cellular basestations. It integrates a complete high-performance RF and mixed-signal transmit chain from ADI with any FPGA development kit with a high-speed mezzanine card connector from Altera...

Analog Audio Subsystem Integrates Noise Reduction 

Aug 5, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The PowerWise LM49155 from National Semiconductor is the industry’s first analog audio subsystem with integrated noise reduction for use in smart phones and full-featured phones, dramatically improving the user’s voice-signal-to-background-noise ratio while retaining natural speech quality...

Class 2 Adapter Promises Cost And Energy Efficiency 

Aug 2, 2010, MD&D News Staff

The PSM36W-120TW2 Class 2 universal desktop adapter from Phihong offers a single 12-V output. It’s designed for use in networking, portable equipment, peripherals, and gaming machines...

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

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....

Beamforming Antennas Fit Microwave Applications 

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...

Efficient Power Amplifiers Support 3G WCDMA And HSPA Devices 

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...

SAR ADC Cuts Power By 50% 

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%...

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