Incremental Improvements Define The 2012 Mobile World Congress |
|
 |
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... |
Class G speaker amplifier cuts EMI
Maxim Integrated Products’ MAX9730 maximizes battery life by using a proprietary output stage that provides efficiency levels greater than Class AB devices, without the EMI penalties commonly associated with Class D amplifiers. ...
Spread-spectrum radio suits mission-critical applications
FreeWave Technologies’ 3400SMR is a spread-spectrum radio designed specifically to operate in the 3.3 GHz to 3.5 GHz band. ...
Smart Radio Challenge targets student engineers
The Software Defined Radio Forum is accepting entries for its second annual Smart Radio Challenge, a worldwide competition in which student engineering teams design, develop and test a software-defined radio....
CMOS mobile TV tuner is smallest
Combining its digital architecture with 0.13 µm CMOS process, fabless semiconductor start-up MaxLinear has developed a new silicon tuner for mobile TV applications, which the developer claims is the world’s smallest. ...
EDA software improves productivity, saves time
Agilent EEsof is shipping GENESYS 2007, the next major release of its GENESYS EDA software. ...
AGC/video amplifier chip enhances digital set-top box performance
NEC’s new AGC amplifier IC, the UPC3231GV, combines a 30 MHz to 90 MHz AGC amplifier with an on-chip video amplifier to provide outputs for both ODFM modulators and QPSK/QAM data transmission....
Millimeter-wave amplifiers exhibit low noise
Endwave Corporation has released new millimeter-wave JCA amplifiers that exhibit exceptionally low noise characteristics over broad bandwidths. ...
Coplanar attenuators operate to 20 GHz
State of the Art has added coplaner attenuators to its high-frequency product line. Wire-bondable or solderable "0303" coplaner balanced-T attenuators are available on alumina or aluminum nitride substrates. ...
Cables provide stability at high frequencies
Tensolite’s HHF-1111 and HHF-1130 were designed and engineered to terminate with Tensolite’s high performance RF connectors. ...
Semiconductor firm leads in mobile-phone Flash sales
NOR flash supplier Spansion now leads in flash memory used in wireless handsets, according to iSuppli. ...
Contract awarded for CO2-refrigerant air conditioning systems
Modine has won another in a series of contracts with the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command to continue developing alternative...
NXP powers Chinese handset
China's biggest mobile handset manufacturer Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Ltd. has chosen NXP Semiconductors' EDGE solution for its first EDGE...
Electronics can thwart man's worst enemy
The automobile kills more Americans than all wars combined. Several factors that have made commercial flights so much safer can be applied to improve the safety of road travel....
Mobile applications continue to spur advances in TV tuners
As digital technology permeates the mobile TV space, designers are combining advances in CMOS and silicon germanium BiCMOS processes with digital architectures and proprietary algorithms to deliver tuners that support multiple bands of frequencies and handle numerous standards with ultralow power consumption....
Leveraging real-time communications for next-generation command and control systems
With the strong momentum and maturity of converged IP networking and communications in the commercial sector, a multimodal technology like session initiation protocol (SIP) may be suitable for next-generation defense systems....
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | Next
