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... |
Dual-Digital VGA Reduces Solution Footprint By 32%
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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