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... |
Upconverting WiMAX mixer provides high IP3
While many new RF capabilities are enabled by sophisticated RFICs, simple structures, such as a double-balanced quad diode mixer, can effectively perform the same signal-processing functions while also exhibiting superior electrical performance and robustness....
Successful LNA design involves performance trade-offs
While the low noise amplifier is a relatively simple design compared to other RF components in a cellular receiver lineup, the performance trade-offs it presents challenge the LNA application design engineer....
Bluetooth Technology: Moving at high speed
Moore's Law correctly predicted the pace at which technology would progress: doubling the complexity of integrated circuits every 24 months. In semiconductors...
Digital phosphor technology boosts RF signal discovery and analysis
The radio frequency spectrum is more chaotic than ever, with more channels and increasingly complex signals crowding a limited frequency spectrum....
Harris donates replacement transmitter
Harris Corporation's Broadcast Communications Division Radio Business Unit has donated its Platinum series Z5, 5 kW, solid-state, FM transmitter to the...
FreeWave named one of Colorado's fastest-growing tech companies
FreeWave Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of spread-spectrum radios, has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Colorado Technology Fast 50 Program....
Technology enables face detection for camera phones
FotoNation's "Face Tracker" is a face detection and tracking technology for camera phones that employs advanced digital image capture technology....
EDA supplier to donate RF design software to Peking University
AWR is donating its entire suite of radio-frequency design software in a collaborative effort to advance Peking University's high-frequency design curriculum. ...
Universal DVD player employs video scaling
Anchor Bay Technologies has announced that its ABT1010 Precision Video Scaling technology has been chosen by Arcam for use in its DiVA DV137 1080p, up-scaling universal DVD player....
Contact mask aligners diversify fabrication capabilities
While CMOS processor ICs have used step-and-repeat photolithography techniques for some time, the contact lithography it largely displaced has remained useful in the development of more exotic semiconductor technology, such as certain RFICs, optical devices, and MEMS....
Start-up focuses on SoC solution for PC to TV connection
Fabless semiconductor start-up Quartics, Inc. has unveiled plans to develop codec and transport agnostic media processors to wirelessly link PCs with any television or projection systems. ...
K&S enters die bonder market
Semiconductor wire bonding assembly equipment supplier Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. has inked an agreement to acquire Alphasem, a major supplier of die bonder equipment...
Triple video amplifier supports high definition video format
Linear Technology Corp. has released a single-supply triple amplifier for applications such as 1080p high definition video...
Advanced tuner enables up to 12 simultaneous TV pictures
Xceive Corp. has announced the availability of advanced picture-in-picture (PIP) television technology called ChannelVista...
Coaxial circulator suits military communications
REC's coaxial circulator operates at the 225 MHz to 400 MHz frequency range for military communications applications. ...
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