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... |
SDR front-end IC includes record-breaking low-power ADC
A true software-defined radio (SDR) front-end IC presented by IMEC earlier this year at ISSCC 2007 incorporates an SAR ADC design with record-breaking performance....
Single CMOS chip handles multiple mobile TV standards
Aiming to get a piece of the emerging mobile TV market, fabless chip developer MediaPhy Corp., based in San Jose, Calif., has unveiled a single-chip CMOS solution for the application. ...
New antenna design replaces old
Laird Technologies has readied a new FM antenna solution that can be incorporated directly inside a handset device...
MediaTek buys ADI’s cellular chipset operations
Taiwan’s fabless semiconductor supplier MediaTek, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets related to the Analog Devices’ Othello radio and SoftFone baseband chipset product lines, as well as certain cellular handset baseband support operations, for approximately $350 million in cash. ...
Miniature RF antenna module combines GPS receiver chipset
UK’s antenna solutions provider Antenova Ltd. has unveiled an RF antenna module that incorporates a complete SiRFstarIII GPS chipset, targeting mobile handset, portable navigation device (PND) and portable media player (PMP) applications...
Antenna is optimized for UWB applications
Omron Electronic Components LLC has announced a new surface-mount polymeric antenna, the WXA-N2SL. ...
WiMAX test system platform includes MIMO
Wireless test system solutions supplier LitePoint Corp. has released a new IQmax MIMO system aimed at WiMAX devices with Wave 2 functionality...
Energy-efficient, surface-mount white LED is low-power alternative to conventional lighting
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. has expanded its family of white LEDs with a new device that provides a typical flux of 30 lumens (lm) with a driving current of only 250 mA. ...
PXI products record and playback at 600 megabytes per second
Engineers can use the newest National Instruments PXI products to sustain higher data streaming rates than ever before possible with an industry-standard test and measurement platform. ...
High-performance LVDS 4x4 crosspoint switch is introduced
A new low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) 4 x 4 crosspoint switch from National Semiconductor Corporation delivers what is said to be the industry's best jitter performance — 10 picoseconds, typical — at data transmission rates up to 3.125 Gb/S. ...
U.S. Navy funds development of surveillance sensors
BAE Systems has received a $49 million U.S. Navy contract to develop a system that can rapidly identify and track concealed targets. ...
Contract valued at $462 million awarded for the U.S. Army RC-12 Guardrail fleet modernization
Northrop Grumman Corporation, the prime contractor for the U.S. Army's RC-12 Guardrail aircraft fleet, has been awarded a Guardrail Modernization system integration contract for upgrading and enhancing the system, that will extend Guardrail's operational life beyond 2020. ...
SDR Forum appeals to the FCC
The SDR Forum has submitted a Petition for Reconsideration in response to the FCC's recent Memorandum Opinion and Order entitled "Facilitating Opportunities for Flexible, Efficient and Radio Spectrum Use Employing Cognitive Radio Technologies, ET Docket No. 03-108, Memorandum Opinion and Order, released April 25, 2007". ...
Software company to support new quad-core processor platform
Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, has announced that it will support the latest Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 series platforms. ...
Following Israel's lackluster performance in 2006, the IDF develops its procurement plans for the future
With rumors of another round in the air and Iranian nuclear efforts advancing, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz has reported that the Israeli Defense Force has devised a procurement plan to face whatever may come next. ...
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