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... |
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....
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...
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...
Synthetic instruments in automatic test systems
This article will describe why there is a move toward synthetic instrument ATS architecture, how synthetic instrument architecture will differ from that of a stand-alone instrument, and how it is possible to achieve high-performance measurements in a synthetic instrument framework....
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...
PCTEL expands mobile antenna operation
To strengthen its position in the high-growth wireless communications sector, RF communications products supplier PCTEL Inc., Chicago, Ill., has entered into an agreement to acquire selected assets associated with Andrew Corporations' mobile antenna business...
AutoCell optimizes wireless LAN performance
Propagate Networks, Inc. and Taiwan's Accton Technology Corp. have announced that they will develop self-optimizing wireless local area network access points available to Accton OEM partners...
Strategic partnership to deliver fully upgradeable WiMAX base station reference design
With plans to deliver the first fully upgradeable reference design for WiMAX base stations, Florida’s Airspan Networks, Inc. and Bath, England-based picoChip have entered into a strategic partnership...
Tektronix, Virginia Tech collaborate on development of SDR test bed
Tektronix, Inc. is collaborating with the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech in the development of a software-defined radio test bed and open source software communications architecture implementation embedded ...
ITU-T group agrees to procedure for verifying jitter receiver measurement accuracy
Based on a recent meeting of the International Telecommunications Union Study Group 4, Agilent Technologies Inc. said the Jitter Working Party has agreed in principle to the draft of ITU-T O.172 Appendix VII, "Method for Verification of Measurement Result Accuracy and Intrinsic Fixed Error" ...
M/A-COM signs XM982 TTM contract with Raytheon Missiles Systems
M/A-COM announced that it has signed an initial development contract with Raytheon Missiles Systems for tactical telemetry modules for the XM982 "Excalibur" projectile program...
Reference design targets next-generation wireless VoIP router
As a result of an extended joint technology effort between Micrel Inc., LSI Logic and Arcturus Networks, Micrel has released a next-generation wireless VoIP router reference design that reduces component count, lowers system cost and supports voice port scalability...
Wireless VoIP chipset transforms the residential phone
To transform the traditional residential phone into a converged voice/data wireless Internet appliance, Broadcom Corp. has developed a two-chip set for wireless IP phones that will create a new category of consumer products...
LXI consortium adds a new member
The LXI Consortium has announced that Keithley Instruments Inc. will join the recently formed standards organization...
Aeroflex/Inmet, Richardson Electronics ink distribution deal
Aeroflex/Inmet has signed a distribution agreement with Richardson Electronics...
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