Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
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Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The usual players all showed up at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with lots of improved devices, but no real game-changing breakthroughs... |
Development Kit Throws Wireless To The Cloud
Digi International’s iDigi Gateway Development Kit with 3G cellular connectivity kit demonstrates how remote devices can interface wirelessly over cellular networks and integrate into a cloud environment with ease....
14-Bit ADCs Suit Up For Comm And T&M Apps
The latest Analog Devices single- and dual-channel 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) meet the performance and size requirements of 3G and 4G multi-standard cellular infrastructure equipment....
LNAs Keep Down Noise And Costs In Basestations
In addition to noise figures down to 0.5 dB, the MAAL-010704, MAAL-010705, and MAAL-010706 LNAs from M/A-COM Inc. promise both space and cost savings in applications such as wireless infrastructure basestations....
Power Inductor Trims Down To 0.7 mm High
Taiyo Yuden’s BRL1608 and BRC2012 suit dc-dc converter applications in smart phones, cell phones, digital still cameras, and other compact mobile devices....
MHL Switch Transfers HD Audio/Video At 1.3 GHz
A 3:1 high-speed USB switch with integrated MHL support, the ON Semiconductor NCN1188 allows smart phones and other portable consumer electronics to interface with HDTVs....
6250-MHz CRO Slices Down Phase Noise And Harmonics
Claiming lower phase noise and significantly lower harmonics than comparable components, Crystek’s CVCO55CXT-6250-6250 coaxial resonator oscillator (CRO) integrates a proprietary frequency doubler to make good on those claims....
GPS/INS Pares Pertinent Parameters
MicroStrain’s 3DM-GX3-45 assumes position as the smallest, lightest, and lowest-power GPS-aided inertial navigation system (GPS/INS) available....
Transceiver Provides Low-Power NFC
The Texas Instruments TRF7970A contactless short-range communication transceiver provides eight selectable power modes ranging from less than 1 µA in power-down mode to 120 mA in full-power mode....
SoCs Make Practical Picocells And Microcells Possible Today
The Design Art Networks DAN3400 appears to be an ideal base for a multi-protocol basestation. Its small size, low power consumption, and economy make it suitable for microcells and picocells....
Direct Sampling ADC Makes SDR Easier And Cheaper
National Semiconductor?s ADC12Dxx00RF ADCs sample as quickly as 3.6 Gsamples/s, making it possible to make cellular direct RF sampling radios up to 2.7 GHz....
Miniature LED Enables Low-Profile Optical Touchscreens
Measuring 0.5 by 1 by 0.45 mm, the infrared CHIPLED SFH 4053 LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors support small and medium-size touch displays in laptops, tablets, and smart phones....
DC-DC Converter Boosts Battery Time By 20%
The 3-MHz, 100-mA TPS62730 synchronous step-down dc-dc converter from texas Instruments integrates a bypass switch and the unique DCS-Control technology to extend battery runtime by 20% in wireless and MSP430 MCU-based designs....
Single MIMO Antenna Covers All LTE Bands
SkyCross has demonstrated a tunable MIMO antenna designed for multimode/multiband LTE handsets that covers all 12 standard LTE bands....
Starter Kit Supports COM Express Type 6 Modules
Kontron’s COM Express Starterkit Type 6 kick-starts the development and evaluation of systems using the latest COM Express pin-out Type 6 computer-on-modules (COMs)...
LTE SMT Antenna Attains 70% Efficiency
Measuring 40 by 6 by 5 mm, the PA.700.A Viking LTE, septa-band SMT antenna from Taoglas delivers an efficiency over 70%. ...
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