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... |
Future military test systems hinge on synthetic instrument development
Ten years ago, the Department of Defense authorized the Navy to begin developing new types of automatic test systems to test military and...
Signal Processing
Clock buffer Pericom Semiconductor Corporation has launched a family of 3.3 V, 1:4 LVPECL clock buffers with speeds up to 800 MHz. The PI6C4853x ICs target...
Strategic partnership to deliver upgradable WiMAX base-station reference design
With plans to deliver the first fully upgradable reference design for WiMAX base stations, Florida's Airspan Networks Inc. and Bath, England-based picoChip...
Products
Test and Measurement 3G base station test system Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS) has announced its enhanced and upgraded 3G base station test...
Military modernization accentuates synthetic instrumentation
For more than the last 60 years, electronic test and measurement instruments have evolved significantly to address the challenges of both commercial and...
Designing a ZigBee-ready IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio transceiver
Besides highlighting the physical (PHY) and MAC layers of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, and the network, security and application layers of the ZigBee wireless technology, this article focuses on efficient implementation of IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio-on-a-chip by identifying potential low-power features in the standard, suitable transceiver architectures and considering standard CMOS design issues....
GSM/GPRS quad band power amp includes antenna switch
Combining gallium arsenide (GaAs) power amplifier circuit with integrated passive devices (IPDs) and microvia high-density interconnect (HDI) technology,...
FCC adopts Access Broadband-over-Power-Lines rules
The Federal Communications Commission released the text of its Report and Order addressing Access Broadband over Power Lines. On Oct. 14, the FCC adopted...
Synthetic Instrumentation: Contemporary architectures and applications (Part II)
Synthetic instrument implementations often come in a variety of flavors; there are many ways to build an SI mousetrap...
DSP design automation tools facilitate radar development at NASA's JPL
AccelChip Inc., a provider of automated flows from MATLAB algorithms to silicon, has announced that Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected its DSP...
Do we really need a unified ultra-wideband (UWB) standard?
The way the two ultra-wideband (UWB) camps direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) led by Freescale semiconductor vs. multiband orthogonal...
M/A-COM produces new AlGaAs PIN diodes
M/A-COM, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, claims it has improved the performance of aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) flip-chip PIN diodes to set...
Antenna positioner supports high-gain antennas
The RF/Microwave Instrumentation division of AR Worldwide has introduced a heavy-duty, non-conductive support and positioner for two of its high-gain,log periodic antennas...
ZigBee alliance continues to grow
Continuing on its growth path, the ZigBee Alliance has added 16 new member companies to its roster...
Highly integrated hardware, software design facilitates mobile handsets
Royal Philips Electronics has introduced a highly integrated system solution for low- to mid-end GSM/GPRS mobile handsets...
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