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... |
ST researchers demonstrate fully integrated RF front-end at ISSCC ‘05
Among 12 papers being presented by STMicroelectronics researchers at next week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the most notable presentations will cover advances in digital video broadcast and RF integration in 3G applications...
High-inductance chokes handle high voltages
Gowanda Electronics has introduced a series of RF surface-mount inductors for use in the lighting industry and other applications where high-voltage handling capability is required...
Microwave resistors come in sample kits
In response to demands of design engineers, TT electronics IRC Advanced Film Division has developed a sample kit of its ball grid termination arrays, attenuators and discrete terminators, which deliver high-frequency performance in commercial and military communication systems, industrial equipment, medical systems and automotive assemblies...
PCB plotter delivers prototyping speed, accuracy and ease-of-use
LPKF Laser & Electronics has released its ProtoMat S62 circuit board plotter that delivers advanced PCB prototyping capabilities at an entry-level price, significantly reducing board production time while increasing overall accuracy and ease-of-use...
Researchers demonstrate 25 Gbps data transmission over backplane connectors
Using novel duobinary signaling architecture and FCI's AirMax VS connector system, researchers at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have successfully demonstrated...
Dual-channel 16-bit 500 Msps DAC targets 3G wireless base stations
Aiming to widen its presence in the 3G wireless infrastructure space, Texas Instruments has unwrapped its next generation, high-performance digital-to-analog...
Wafer-scale integration brings low cost and a small footprint to active antenna arrays
Fabricating a 256-element steerable antenna array on an eight-inch wafer is quite a feat, given the multitude of issues—steering the antenna, optimizing the RF paths and the like. By addressing these and other matters, one at a time, it becomes clear that realization is well within reach....
NxTest and the development of synthetic instrumentation
You may have been hearing the term synthetic instrumentation used lately to describe a new test system architecture...
Cellular system solution powers Samsung's mobile handsets
Royal Philips Electronics has taken its EDGE cellular system solution to production. According to Philips, Nexperia cellular system solution 6100 family...
Products
Gain block MMIC Hittite Microwave has introduced a versatile gain block, monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifier covering dc to 5 GHz....
Compact radio solution targets GSM/GPRS/EDGE terminals
Freescale Semiconductor has readied an RF subsystem that combines a transceiver (MMM6000) and front-end power amplifier module (MMM6027) to create a complete...
Active mixers offer exceptional linearity
Two new RF active mixers from Linear Technology feature low power and high performance, making them suitable for wireless infrastructure transceiver and...
RF CMOS design kit creates on-chip spiral inductors
Semiconductor foundry service provider UMC and EDA software supplier Ansoft Corp. have developed a parameterized spiral inductor design kit based on full-wave...
Products
Active Components Bipolar power transistors The PH1090-700B from M/A-Com is an NPN common base Class C pulse power transistor designed for IFF and other...
Single transceiver chip supports full quad-band operation
Prompted by growth in the wireless marketplace, Analog Devices has unveiled a transceiver chip that shrinks the radio size in cellular telephones...
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