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... |
Wiremedia negotiates with companies interested in selling Bluetooth Proximity media servers
Wiremedia has announced that it is in the midst of negotiations with several firms who have expressed considerable interest in marketing the Bluetooth MediaServer throughout territories outside of North America. ...
SoftRISC to provide robust and reliable voice over Wi-Fi
SoftRISC has announced its Echo Canceller will provide voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) capabilities on future Symbol Technologies' mobile computers. ...
Fujitsu Network Communications adds Airspan AS.MAX to portfolio
Fujitsu Network Communications has announced the availability of a new WiMAX solution for North American service providers. ...
UMC collaborates with NTU to deliver RF chip for WiMax
UMC announced that their research collaboration has resulted in the delivery of a high-performance, fully integrated RF receiver design for WiMax. ...
Z-Wave--wireless home control profile
Z-Wave? What’s that? Z-Wave is a wireless RF-based communications technology designed for residential and light commercial control and status reading applications such as meter reading, lighting and appliance control, HVAC, access control, intruder and fire detection, etc. ...
Single chip phone targets ultra low-cost handsets
Combining improvements in CMOS process with trimmed features and shrunk package, Silicon Laboratories Inc. has added a very low cost single-chip phone to its AeroFONE family....
Triquint opens North Carolina design center
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. will open a new design and support center in High Point, North Carolina as part of its ongoing program to work more closely with strategic partners and customers in the development of next-generation wireless modules and components. ...
CEVA divests GPS technology to a new fabless company
DSP core licensor CEVA, Inc. has announced the divestment of its GPS technology and associated product line to a new U.S.-based fabless company, GloNav in return for an equity ownership of 19.9% in GloNav on a fully diluted basis. ...
Is UWB the solution the PAN industry seeks?
For some time now, the PAN market has waited for the evolution of a wireless solution that could complement established wired applications. Is UWB technology the answer to that wait?...
Impact of ultralow phase noise oscillators on system performance
While helping to understand phase noise and jitter of high-performance oscillators, this article also examines the impact of oscillator phase noise on system performance, underscoring the importance of using ultralow phase noise oscillators in systems....
Low power, giga speed programmable divider in 0.18 m CMOS
This article will focus on the design and simulation of a new programmable divider architecture for use in the 2.412 GHz to 2.484 GHz frequency bands....
Highly integrated transceiver enables high-volume production of GSM/EDGE handsets
By combining a unique dual-transmitter architecture and a digital low-IF receiver architecture, EDGE services can be enabled in GSM handsets with best-in-class receiver sensitivity, integrated loop filters, elimination of the transmit SAWs and baluns and only one simple power measurement step for EDGE transmitter calibration....
Will multistandard, polyband tuners help mobile TV realize its full potential?
Last year, in this column I was exploring the developments in the mobile TV arena, hoping that the convergence of mobile phones and broadcast TV would result in a killer application...
A closer look at RFIC design and verification
High-frequency, high-switching speed circuits such as for UWB radio transceivers require and improved RFIC design flow to ensure first pass silicon....
Providing reliable sensing and control using ZigBee wireless networks
This article demystifies ZigBee and demonstrates a light switch, a subset of a typical home networking environment, as an application example to describe the devices needed in the development of a wireless sensor network based on the ZigBee standard....
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