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 Polarized Flat Panel Antennas Target Heavy Duty Outdoor Use
The HyperLink brand flat panel antennas use multiple-input/multiple-output formats with two or three active elements....
Cooperation Between Network Operators And Developers Will Benefit The M2M Market
Latest forecasts hold forth the promise of enormous growth potential for the M2M market in the years ahead, but cooperation will be required to make full use of this potential....
CSAs Squeeze Into Portable Devices
The unidirectional TS1102 and bidirectional TS1103 current-sense amplifiers from Touchstone Semiconductor combine a 1-µA supply current with a 200-µV (max) VOS and 0.5% (TS1102) or 0.6% (TS1103) maximum gain error for cost-sensitive applications....
Windows 8 Touchscreen Controller Taps Into Ultrabook/Notebook Markets
Atmel’s maXTouch S mXT3432S touchscreen controller is optimized for touchscreens up to 17.3 inches and supports key Windows 8 features....
Touchscreen Dev Kit Targets HMI/GUI Apps
The DK-43WQT-RX63N modular development platform from Future Designs supports the Renesas RX63N 100-MHz microcontroller with Direct Drive LCD logic....
Antenna-Tuning Development Kit Sets Size Benchmark
WiSpry offers what it calls the world’s smallest form-factor antenna tuning developers’ kit for LTE smart phones and tablets....
Gen-2 Envelope Trackers Infiltrate Smart Phones
Sampling now, Nujira’s NCT-L1200 second-generation Coolteq.L envelope tracking chip debuts as the only product available supporting the maximum 20-MHz channel bandwidth of LTE....
Rectifiers Handle High Telecom Supply Current
Primed for deployment in telecom power supplies, Vishay Intertechnology’s 170-V TMBS rectifiers specify current ratings up to 80 A....
Offline Switcher ICs Boost Overload Power Protection
The TinySwitch-4 family of offline switcher ICs from Power Integrations feature line-compensated overload power protection to dramatically reduce to maximum overload power that can be delivered into the load over the entire ac input voltage range....
Mini PCI Express Card Hosts EV-DO Cellular Modem
Telit Wireless Solutions’ DE910-DUAL Mini PCIe card for commercial and industrial computer markets embarks as the first full-featured EV-DO mini PCI Express modem supporting 3.1-Mbit/s downlink rates and 1.8-Mbit/s uplink rates....
2.4-GHz SoCs Enable Low-Cost Consumer Electronics
The Texas Instruments 2.4-GHz CC2543, CC2544, and CC2545 integrate a microcontroller, 32 kbytes of flash memory, and 1 or 2 kbytes of RAM, making them desirable for low-cost consumer electronics including mobile devices....
Mobile Comm Chip Family Expands
Silicon Image enhances its Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) family with four members: the SiI8558 MHL transmitter, SiI9296 MHL-to-HDMI bridge, SiI1296 MHL-to-VGA bridge, and SiI9293 dual-mode MHL/HDMI receiver....
Buck-Boost Converter Slashes Power Consumption In Mobile PAs
The LM3269 buck-boost dc-dc converter from Texas Instruments cuts power consumption by as much as 50%, improving battery life and decreasing heat generation in the PAs....
Power Amp Packs High Power, Low EVM Into WLAN Apps
Microchip Technology expands its RF portfolio with the SST11CP16 5-GHz power amplifier (PA)....
Multiple Applications Run Simultaneously With Dual State Accelerometer
The KXCNL dual state accelerometer from Kionix allows designers flexibility to create devices that can handle multiple applications at the same time....
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