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... |
Biometrics center supports defense applications
Lockheed Martin has opened its Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts (BEACON) center in White Hall, W.V. The 6000-square-foot facility will...
MIMO WLAN test methodologies for manufacturing
Four different methodologies are used for testing MIMO WLAN chipsets and products. Each methodology has its advantages and disadvantages, which are discussed in this article....
Components supplier achieves AS9100 certification
Gowanda Electronics, a manufacturer of high-performance electronic inductor components for RF and power applications, is registered as conforming to AS9100...
General Dynamics selects computer for training demos
General Dynamics Land Systems-Amphibious Systems has selected the Quantum-3D Thermite tactical visual computer version 2.0 to support embedded training testing and demonstrations in the U.S. Marine Corps' expeditionary fighting vehicle....
RF LDMOS power transistor delivers 300 W over UHF band
NXP Semiconductors' BLF878 power transistor is the RF Design Products of the Month for June 2007...
Innovators receive IEEE medals
Alan V. Oppenheim and Russell Keith Raney received IEEE awards in a June 16 ceremony in Philadelphia. Oppenheim received the IEEE 2007 Jack S. Kilby Signal...
Location-detection chip targets ZigBee networking
Targeting low-power ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networking applications, Texas Instruments has unwrapped a system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution with...
RF LDMOS power transistor raises efficiency bar
Designed to set new standards for RF performance in ISM markets, Freescale Semiconductor's RF division has further pushed the power limits of LDMOS RF...
Reformed methanol fuel cell system certified for military field use
The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's Army Power Division, has approved a limited safety assessment report for UltraCell's XX25 reformed methanol fuel cell system....
Hynix joins IMEC's CMOS research platform
Hynix Semiconductor, a memory semiconductor supplier offering dynamic random access memory chips (DRAMs) and flash memory chips, has entered into a strategic...
Considerations for selecting hybrid or COTS modules for MIL-SPEC dc-dc conversion
Facing the pressure to reduce costs and use commercial off-the-shelf components, designers are curious to understand the pros and cons of whether a hybrid or a non-hybrid power converter is best for their application....
RF PIN diodes come in high-performance SMT packages
Targeting WiMAX and WLAN applications, Microsemi Corp. has announced a line of RF pin diodes in surface-mount packages with superior electrical and thermal...
Highly efficient amplifier shows the promise of Doherty architecture
The Doherty amplifier architecture has come a long way in the 70 years since it was conceived and has the potential to deliver the efficiency demanded by today's base station transmitters as well as those serving future generations of wireless networks. The Doherty amplifier described in this article is one of many designed at Freescale, which has been refining the basic Doherty concept....
RF defense electronics company acquires radar component vendor
Endwave, a provider of high-frequency RF modules for telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems, has acquired ALC...
New technologies drive synthetic instrumentation
Advances in technology have enabled configurable synthetic instruments that rival dedicated test equipment in performance, while providing a greater range of capabilities for challenging test requirements, such as those for software-defined radios....
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