APUs Slice Power Consumption By 39% 

May 31, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The latest AMD Embedded G-Series accelerated processing units (APUs) sport thermal design power ratings of 5.5 W and 6.4 W, translating into a 39% power reduction over previous versions....

Controllers Enable Capacitive Touchscreens At Resistive-Level Cost 

May 25, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The Cypress Semiconductor CY8CTST241 and CY8CTST242 deliver high performance, reliable accuracy, and responsiveness via a true single-layer sensor panel as opposed to traditional capacitive touchscreens using a two-layer sensor....

Award-Winning Substrate Solves Flexible Display Woes 

May 20, 2011, MD&D News Staff

Winner of the 2011 SID Display Component of the Year award, ITRI’s inorganic hybrid plastic substrate claims position as the first technology enabling mass production of flexible and transparent displays in any size....

Tape Reduces LED Count In Edge-Lit Designs 

May 12, 2011, MD&D News Staff

3M’s Uniformity Tape reduces the number of LEDs required for edge-lit LED LCD panels without sacrificing brightness or efficiency....

Antennas Launch LTE Notebooks Onto Global Networks  

May 10, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The Ethertronics Ether 1.2 portfolio of antenna and RF products ensures that LTE notebook PCs support the necessary frequencies for global operation and spec compliance....

With LDMOS Transistors, PAs Can Completely Cover Cell Bands 

May 10, 2011, Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief

Two new LDMOS RF power transistors from Freescale Semiconductor enable wireless basestation amplifiers to cover all channels in an entire allocated frequency band. These devices should help reduce capital and operating expenditures and increase network flexibility in amplifier systems....

Processor Pumped For LTE Communications Infrastructure 

May 4, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The XLP316 from NetLogic Microsystems exploits a quad-core, 16-issue, 16-threaded, superscalar architecture with out-of-order execution and an L3 cache....

First Tunable FMC to Support Multiple Frequency Bands and Modes 

May 3, 2011, MD&D News staff

The Radio420X FPGA mezzanine card can be used in applications such as femto and pico basestations, micro access points, WiMAX, and LTE. It is a multimode software SDR RF transceiver module that can be used with any FMC carrier on the market and is designed around the multistandard, multiband Lime Microsystems LMS6002D integrated RF transceiver....

USB 3.0 Dual Repeater IC Boasts Lowest Power and Smallest Footprint 

May 3, 2011, MD&D News Staff

Parade is expanding its USB 3.0 repeater/redriver IC product line to include a dual USB 3.0 repeater/redriver that supports two bi-directional USB ports on a single device, and is housed in a 32-pin 3- by 6-mm TQFN package....

Geo-Magnetic Module Accelerates Mobile Compassing 

May 3, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The STMicroelectronics LSM303DLHC geo-magnetic module debuts in a 3- by 5- by 1-mm package with an operating current down to 110 µA....

Up/Downconverter Cranks Up Bandwidth And Sensitivity  

Apr 25, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The Texas Instruments GC6016 software-defined digital up/downconverter supports one to 48 channels across four transmit and eight receive streams with up to 155-Msample/s composite bandwidth....

3G/4G/LTE DFE Processors Deliver Ultra-Wide Bandwidth  

Apr 20, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The OP6100 family of digital front-end processors from NetLogic Microsystems provides 65 MHz of occupied bandwidth, 145 MHz of total bandwidth, and 325 MHz of pre-distortion bandwidth....

Power Chip Converts DC Sources Into Battery Chargers 

Apr 19, 2011

Converting externally compensated dc-dc power supplies into full-featured battery chargers, the Linear Technology LTC4000 high-voltage controller and power manager drives typical dc-dc converter topologies including buck, boost, buck-boost, SEPIC, and flyback....

Single GNSS Receiver Module Integrates GPS and Glonass 

Apr 19, 2011, MD&D News Staff

Faster, more accurate, and more reliable positioning is available with the IT600, according to Fastrax. The IT600 is designed to support not only current Global Navigation Satellite System, but also other positioning systems such as European-based Galileo and Chinese Compass/Beidou2 in the future....

Portable Memories Target Rugged Environments 

Apr 14, 2011, MD&D News Staff

The Datakey Electronics RUGGEDrive portable memory line will give OEMs USB flash drive or SD card functionality in a more robust, secure package, according to the company....

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