Jan 1, 2003
Agere Systems Inc. (www.agere.com) announced a wireless LAN technology capable of transmitting data at 162 Mbps in the 5 GHz frequency band, three times...
Jan 1, 2003
Ansoft Releases PExprt Software Tool Ansoft Corp. (www.ansoft.com) released PExprt, a new software tool that helps to optimize and speed the design of...
Jan 1, 2003
Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (www.coverge.com) announced it will integrate its Enhanced Observed Time Difference (E-OTD) high accuracy location...
Jan 1, 2003
In-line Couplers Optimized for Wireless Band Applications Meca Electronics Inc. has developed a series of in-line single and dual directional couplers...
Jan 1, 2003
An error was made in the article Indoor propagation issues for wireless LANs, September 2002, p. 40. Equation (1) reads: -38 - [10log(distance)] Equations...
Jan 1, 2003
Micrel Semiconductor Corp. (www.micrel.com) and ARM Ltd. (www.arm.com) announced that Micrel has licensed the ARM922T core. Micrel has utilized the core...
Jan 1, 2003
RF Micro Devices Inc. (www.rfmd.com) announced the opening of a new sales and customer support office in Beijing, China. The sales and customer support...
Jan 1, 2003,
Warren Strand
Consumers' insatiable thirst for high data rates coupled with mobility is creating rapid growth in WLAN market requirements and device volume. In turn, this demand has created unprecedented challenges for RFIC testing....
Jan 1, 2003
Ansoft Corp. (www.ansoft.com) announced the formation of an educational partnership with Carnegie Mellon University's (www.cmu.edu) new center for wireless...
Nov 1, 2002
Cadence Design Systems Inc. announced third quarter pro forma diluted earnings per share of $0.15, down 30% from the third quarter of 2001 ......
Nov 1, 2002,
By Louis Litwin
The physical layer of the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA) standard uses direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) modulation with a chip rate of 3.84 Mcps. The channel bandwidth is 5 MHz and this wider bandwidth (compared to 2G systems such as IS-95, which have a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz) has benefits such as higher data rates and improved multipath resolution....
Nov 1, 2002
Lamina Ceramics has opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Westampton, NJ to increase production of components, modules, circuit boards, and packages ......
Nov 1, 2002
VIA Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Ericsson to license their Bluetooth IP....
Nov 1, 2002
PCTEL Inc. confirmed that it is providing its wireless access hardware and software products to the cruise line industry through its commercial agreement with Maritime Telecommunications Network....
Nov 1, 2002
Barcelona Design Inc. announced its plan to develop products at the 90 nm technology node. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is expected to share technology information with Barcelona to support the development of analog intellectual property (IP) engines based on TSMC's Nexsys 90 nm process technology....