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... |
Ashvattha Semiconductor chooses AWR's Analog Office RFIC Design Suite
Applied Wave Research Inc. has announced a corporate agreement with Ashvattha Semiconductor, Inc. to purchase AWR's Analog Office design suite. Ashvattha...
Building radio towers for reliable and secure communications
From police vehicles on the road to ambulances attending the sick, radio communications has played a vital role for decades in protecting citizens and...
The importance of Fast, Economical Testing for RFIC PAs, Mobile Phones
Testing of RFIC power amplifier and mobile phone handsets are approaching 10 percent of per-unit cost. Minimizing test time by combining today’s intelligent instruments, manufacturers can significantly increase testing throughput, thus garnering a substantial competitive advantage....
WiFi/Bluetooth
LDMOS amplifier California Eastern Laboratories has introduced the UPD5702TU, NEC's new LDMOS medium-power amplifier. Housed in an 8-pin 2.0 2.2 mm package,...
Products
Signal Sources 5 GHz VCOs Crystek Crystals Corporation has expanded its line of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) with a 5 GHz model in a 0.5 inch...
Relentless integration drive in 3G cell phones continues
From a standards point of view, the industry is transitioning from second-generation (2G) and variants of 2G (2.5G GPRS, 2.75G EDGE) systems to 3G air...
Multiband receiver board supports 1,280 channels
VME board supplier Pentek Inc. has announced its first entry into the cPCI market with a 3U 16-channel multiband-receiver board and a 6U 32-channel multiband-receiver...
Patriot granted Hispasat type-approvals
Hispasat, the Spain-based satellite communications operator, has type-approved three of Patriot's Ku-band antennas for use with its satellites. These...
New signature model redefines high-end analyzers
Anritsu Corp.'s U.S. subsidiary Anritsu Co. has made its foray into the high-performance signal analyzer market with the introduction of a new Signature...
Extending Benefits of 3-D Integration to Next-Generation Wireless Devices
Three-dimensional integration provides a methodology to address many of the concerns confronting RF designers. Advances in 3-D can be extended to the RF front to integrate RF, analog and digital functions in miniature IC packages and overcome the roadblocks presented by process technology....
Web Showcase
Visual System Simulator (VSS), a comprehensive software suite for the design of analog and digital communications systems, uses an advanced, time-based...
Synopsys' HSPICE advances circuit simulation performance and analysis
Synopsys Inc. has announced performance enhancements and extended high-frequency design support in HSPICE, an industry standard for circuit simulation...
Frequency synthesizer exploits DDS for fine resolution
Elcom's IBS-18 series synthesizers are based on indirect PLL design technology with internal DDS for fine resolution...
Eight-bit ADC achieves high linearity at 250 Msps
Analog Devices' new wight-bit analog-to-digital converter achieves a conversion rate of 250 Msps while maintaining a differential nonlinearity of +/- 0.25 LSB...
Quad-band GSM GPRS transmit module offers 60% size reduction
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. has released a quad-band GSM GPRS transmit module in a small, highly integrated form factor--6 mm x 6 mm x 1.1 mm--offering a 60 percent size reduction...
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