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... |
Thin-Chip LEDs Forecast Smaller End Products
With a height profile of 0.8 mm, the VLMx1300 series chip LEDs employ Vishay’s ChipLED technology to create ever-smaller end products....
Security Engine Fortifies 4G LTE Backhaul Apps
The Elliptic Technologies SPP-230 accelerates IPsec packet processing to allow for multi-gigabit/s performance by providing complete IPv6 ESP and AH-packet transform support....
AFE Chips Target Femtocells, Picocell Basestations, And Other SDRs
The Texas Instruments AFE7225 and AFE7222 AFE chips perform fast and accurate conversions in the signal chain while consuming minimal power. ...
Battery Holder Goes Both Ways
Yokowo’s four-blade battery connector allows for horizontal and vertical blade insertion, and its compact size yields a pitch reduction from 3 mm to 2.5 mm. ...
Analysts Sniff Out First Use of RF MEMS Part
The Samsung Focus Flash Windows smart phone employs a MEMS-based antenna tuning module labeled A2101 in a die-on-LGA package near the antenna connectors....
Tunable Antenna Module Simplifies Design For Multiband 4G LTE Devices
The SkyCross VersiTune-LTE tunable antenna module optimizes MIMO performance, supports up to 12 frequency bands, and enables device OEMs to conveniently integrate advanced antenna technology into 4G LTE devices....
Touch Controllers Forecast Unique Mobile Products
The next-generation maXTouch S series touchscreen controllers from Atmel assume position as key players in the design of unique and intuitive touchscreen interfaces for displays up to 17 in. diagonal....
PLLs Trim Phase Noise
Promising the utmost in phase noise performance, the ADF4151 and ADF4196 phase-locked loop (PLL) synthesizers from Analog Devices target designs such as basestations, pulse, and Doppler radar....
Glasses-Free Mobile 3D Technology To Be Displayed At CES
MasterImage 3D’s glasses-free HD 720 resolution 3D display for a 4.3-in. smart phone and WUXGA (1920*1200) resolution 3D display for a 10.1-in. tablet will be demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas....
Mixed-Signal Chips Eye Mobile And Home Markets
Maxim Integrated Products’ TINI family of mixed-signal systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and codecs free up board space for differentiating features in smart phones, tablet PCs, smart TVs, and home-monitoring cameras....
Integrated Optical Sensor Delivers Optical Fusion
Detecting light like a human eye, Maxim’s MAX44000 houses three optical sensors, two ADCs, and digital functionality in a compact device....
Single-Chip Optical Touch Controller Increases Performance
Neonode and Texas Instruments have announced the NN1001, the world’s first ultra-low-power single-chip optical touch controller, which reduces BOM costs, increases performance, and adds functionality to consumer products....
Quantace Q845 ET Third-Gen Envelope Tracker Accelerates
Hitting speeds 100 times faster than conventional devices, the third-generation Q845 ET single-chip envelope tracker from Quantace Inc. enables power-amplifier efficiency to reach theoretical limits and boost peak transmit power....
Integer-N PLL/Synthesizer Suppresses System Noise
The LTC6945 6-GHz, integer-N frequency synthesizer from Linear Technology specifies a normalized closed-loop in-band phase noise of –226 dBc/Hz and a normalized in-band 1/f noise of –274 dBc/Hz....
ICs Quickly Charge Smart Phones And Tablets
The SMB346 and SMB347 programmable Li-ion battery-charger ICs from Summit Microelectronics deliver up to 2.5-A charge/system current with the company’s dual-input/dual-output CurrentPath technology for operation with dead or a missing battery. ...
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