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... |
High-Current Inductors Bask In Temperatures Up To 155°C
The Vishay Intertechnology -51 and -5A series devices come in 2525, 3232, 4040, 5050, and 6767 case sizes with profiles down to 3 mm, a frequency range up to 1 MHz, and a range of inductance values from 0.22 µH to 33 µH....
MIPI Transmitters Enable Ultra-High-Resolution Displays
Solomon Systech’s SSD2825G44 and SSD2828G44 display interface controllers team with either dual-core or quad-core processors in HD720 (720 RGB by 1280) and FHD (1080 RGB by 1920) smart-phone and tablet applications, respectively....
Lightweight 40-W Power Adapter Targets Ultrabooks and Netbooks
The PSA40W-190 40-W power adapter from Phihong USA is a small, lightweight, and energy-efficient adapter for mobile devices that require battery charging....
Multilayer Chip Inductors Improve Q In Mobile Devices
The AVX Corp. LCMC series multilayer chip inductors provide better Q, high SRF, a wide range of stable and accurate inductances, and tight tolerances down to 0.3 nH in mobile devices....
Hybrid Hard Drive Trims The Drive Space
Trimming the space necessary for similar 2.5-in. drives by about 50%, Western Digital unveils hard drives slim enough for integration into the thinnest notebook PCs....
Ku-Band BUC Delivers 40-W Output For Satellite Uplinks
Comtech Xicom Technology’s Model XTS-40KHE-B1 solid-state Ku-band block up converter provides 40 W of P1 output power and 20 W of linear power....
Solution Enhances Touch On High-End Smart Phones
The Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 will be the first smart phones on the market to exploit the Synaptics ClearPad Series 3 mobile touch solution for premium high-end smart phones....
Isolated Monolithic Flyback Regulator Simplifies Design
The Linear Technology LT8300 low quiescent current monolithic flyback regulator significantly simplifies the design of an isolated dc-dc converter....
Handbook Lays Down Handset Design Essentials
Be it the latest smart phone or the simplest talk-and-text device, Essentials of Mobile Handset Design by Abhi Naha and Peter Whale, published by Cambridge University Press, explains all that is involved in designing a modern mobile handset....
BSI-Based VGA Sensor A First For Mobile Apps
OmniVision Technologies’ OV7695 debuts as the first VGA sensor for mobile devices employing the company’s OmniBSI+ pixel architecture....
PoE Controllers Manage Up To 90 W
Linear Technology’s LT4275 LTPoE++, PoE, and PoE-compliant PD interface controllers control an external MOSFET to reduce heat and maximize efficiency....
Switches Outfit Cloud-Scale Data Center Networks
Broadcom’s StrataXGS Trident II series Ethernet switches meet the bandwidth, scalability, and efficiency demands of cloud networking environments and mega-data centers....
M/A-COM Tech XX1010-QT GaAs MMIC Doubler Raises Integration Bar
Pumped for VSAT applications, M/A-COM Tech’s XX1010-QT GaAs MMIC doubler integrates a gain stage, doubler, and driver amplifier into a 3- by 3-mm plastic QFN package...
Ethertronics EtherChip 1.0 Digital Variable Capacitor Tunes Antenna For Maximum Efficiency
The Ethertronics EtherChip 1.0 is a 16-step digitally variable capacitor designed for antenna tuning in cell phones and tablets. It comes in a 2- by 2- by 0.45-mm QFN package with eight pins....
Flash Driver Stretches Smart-Phone Battery Life
Promising extended battery life, the Skyworks Solutions AAT1274 maintains output current regulation by switching the internal high-side and low-side switch transistors at a fixed, pulse-width modulated 2 MHz....
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