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... |
Unprecedented SDR-based receiver IC processes GPS and Galileo signals
Combining software-defined radio (SDR) architecture with silicon germanium (SiGe) process technology, SiGe Semiconductor Inc. has unwrapped the world's...
How to best marry time-domain system-level verification with frequency-domain RF circuit simulations
This article is a discussion based on a panel presented at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco, Calif. RF Design posed six questions to six panelists on the topic of system-level verification of RF circuits and compiled their responses. The panel discusses the pros and cons of various methods that enable system-level verification of RF circuits....
Design and performance of precision miniature TCXOs
This article will describe the current state-of-the-art in TCXO temperature-compensation technology and the associated crystal resonators....
Comprehensive kits target analog/mixed-signal IC design flow
Jazz Semiconductor and Mentor Graphics Corp. have announced a series of design kits that support Jazz's silicon germanium and CMOS process technologies....
RFID PRODUCTS
RFID silicon boasts advanced design EPCglobal-certified Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) silicon is available from Texas Instruments (www.ti.com). Offered...
Mitigating interference to maximize spectral efficiency in 3G/4G networks
This article describes an interference cancellation technology comprising an ASIC/core hardware and DSP-based software, which cancels interference from all traffic channels, and from all interfering sources for 2.5G, 3G and 4G networks....
RFID quick tips and resources
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that has existed for decades. At the simplest level it deals with tags (either active or passive)...
IEDM maps new course for fusion of technologies
The prophecy of Gordon Moore has been true since the mid-1960s and is expected to continue through the nanometer era....
Mobile TV receiver supports China's new digital TV standard
To accelerate the development of mobile TV receivers for China's recently announced digital TV standard, Analog Devices Inc. and Legend Silicon Corp.,...
Coaxial resonator oscillator delivers extremely low phase noise
Z-Communications introduced a new lead free, RoHS compliant, coaxial resonator oscillator in C band featuring extraordinary low phase noise performance of –110dBc/Hz @ 10kHz offset from the carrier. ...
RFIC amplifiers offer high reliability and performance
Avago Technologies has released a cost-efficient, high linearity silicon bipolar Darlington amplifier in a low thermal resistant SOT-89 package for use up to 2.5 GHz. ...
Rugged RS485/RS422 transceivers operate up to 20 Mbps
Linear Technology Corp.'s LTC2856/LTC2857/LTC2858 are low power RS485/422 transceivers that operate on 5 V supplies. ...
Configurable component video filters improve SDTV/HDTV video images
Fine-tuning filter cutoffs in anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters is now made simple with the introduction of Maxim Integrated Products' four video filters....
Single-chip UWB solution for CW-USB emerges from multi-faceted engineering
Single chip wireless solutions obviously require a single fabrication process, and for many members of the RF design community, CMOS is emerging as the technology of choice. ...
GaAs MMIC PA includes output power adjust
Mimix Broadband’s XP1018 is a a gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) four stage power amplifier with the unique feature of output power adjust....
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