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... |
Reconfigurable processor maker readies WiMAX, HSDPA reference designs
Eyeing next-generation wireless infrastructure market, picoChip has completed the development of reference designs for high-speed downlink packet access picocells and 802.16 base stations...
Wireless LAN products receive Wi-Fi certification for WMM
Advanced wireless LAN (WLAN) chipset supplier Atheros Communications, Inc. announced that two of its WLAN reference designs have been Wi-Fi certified for Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) by the Wi-Fi Alliance...
Handheld Bluetooth RFID reader is unprecedented
Radio frequency identification (RFID) enabler and service provider Cathexis Innovations, Inc. has joined Baracoda Inc., to develop the beta version of the first handheld Bluetooth 13.56 MHz RFID reader...
IDF demonstrates multiband OFDM-based UWB interoperability over wireless USB
At this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Intel Corp., NEC Corp., Texas Instruments and Wisair showed their products exchanging data with each other in what the developers claim is the world's first multivendor interoperability demonstration of the wireless USB and ultrawideband (UWB) specifications...
RFIC-2005 call for papers
The 2005 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC-2005) will be held in Long Beach, Calif. on June 12-14, 2005...
China's handset market selects Anadigics GSM/GPRS PA modules
RF ICs supplier Anadigics is shipping production volumes of its AWT6108 7-mm x 10-mm indium gallium phosphide (InGaP) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) GSM/GPRS power amplifiers (PAs) to Beijing Capitel Co. Ltd., a leading handset manufacturer in China...
Wireless LAN solutions is Wi-Fi certified for WPA2
Broadcom announced that its AirForce wireless LAN access point and client reference designs are among the first products to be Wi-Fi certified for WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2)...
Aeroflex, Motorola ink distribution agreement
High technology solutions provider Aeroflex Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with wireless and broad communications giant Motorola Inc. Under the deal, Motorola will market and distribute Aeroflex's line of advanced wireless test solutions in the United States and Canada...
MBOA establishes special interest group, completes PHY specs
As the battle continues between the two ultrawideband (UWB) camps for standardization, the multiband OFDM alliance (MBOA) has formed a special interest group to develop specifications based on its version of UWB high-speed, short-range wireless communications...
Active Components
Voltage variable attenuators Mini-Circuits' RVA-2500, 10 MHz to 2500 MHz broadband voltage variable attenuators provide up to 55 dB (typ) attenuation...
New EDA capabilities enable fast simulation, verification of wireless communication products
Agilent Technologies Inc. has added wireless test benches, sources and measurement capabilities to its Advanced Design System (ADS) 2004A EDA software...
Understanding the sampling process
Sampling is the first step in the process of converting a continuous analog signal to a sequence of digital numbers. This article provides an insight into time and frequency domains of sampled signals. The concept of the spectral window, defined by the sampling process, helps understand digital signals and signal processing....
Op-amp breaks down distortion barriers at 5 V single supply
To give designers of high-speed signal acquisition chains an operational amplifier (op-amp) with unmatched performance at half the power supply voltage,...
LTCC module integrates power amplifiers
Exploiting low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology, EPCOS has set another milestone in miniaturization of passive electronic components for...
DSP brings base station SDR reality
Developments in digital signal processing and data conversion are enabling the commercialization of software-based wideband receiver, thereby reducing the cost, size, complexity and power consumption of a base station. Moreover, with the emergence of powerful DSP processors, base stations can now support a multilingual variety of air/modulation schemes and protocols....
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