Product Focus September 2006: Active Components
Sep 1, 2006
UHF RFID oscillator Z-Communications' lead-free, RoHS compliant oscillator (SLV0868C-LF) in UHF band (864-870 MHz) features extraordinary low phase noise...
How to best marry time-domain system-level verification with frequency-domain RF circuit simulations
Sep 1, 2006
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director This article is a discussion based on a panel presented at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco, Calif. RF Design posed six questions to six panelists on the topic
of system-level verification of RF circuits and compiled their responses. The panel discusses the pros and cons of various methods that enable system-level verification of RF circuits....
Optimizing mobile handset performance
Sep 1, 2006
By Greg Mendolia Making RF radios in mobile devices "tunable" is not a new development. But, tunable RF technology is seen as too lossy, too large, too expensive or having poor linearity....
Is RFID secure?
Sep 1, 2006
By Cheryl Ajluni, Editor Despite the increasing popularity of RFID technology, the electronic information it deals with may not be as secure as was once thought....
RFID PRODUCTS
Sep 1, 2006
RFID silicon boasts advanced design EPCglobal-certified Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) silicon is available from Texas Instruments (www.ti.com). Offered...
Products
Sep 1, 2006
Amplifiers Darlington amplifier Avago Technologies has released a silicon bipolar Darlington amplifier in a low thermal-resistant SOT-89 package for use...
Single integrated platform offers DAB/FM/MP3 functions
Sep 1, 2006
Frontier Silicon, a semiconductor supplier for mobile TV and digital radio, has partnered with SigmaTel Inc. to produce Atlas 2, a low-cost integrated...
Mitigating interference to maximize spectral efficiency in 3G/4G networks
Sep 1, 2006
By John Thomas This
article describes an interference cancellation technology comprising
an ASIC/core hardware and DSP-based software, which
cancels interference from all traffic channels, and from all interfering sources for 2.5G, 3G and 4G networks....
RFID quick tips and resources
Sep 1, 2006
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that has existed for decades. At the simplest level it deals with tags (either active or passive)...
Item-level RFID takes off
Sep 1, 2006
By Cheryl Ajluni A range of benefits and solutions for item-level tagging are quickly making it the largest, most profitable, RFID market segment....
IEDM maps new course for fusion of technologies
Sep 1, 2006
Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director The prophecy of Gordon Moore has been true since the mid-1960s and is expected to continue through the nanometer era....
Reducing the design complexity of next-generation handsets
Sep 1, 2006
By Jennifer Chou This article will discuss the many available modulation technology options that are used for various EDGE systems, including direct-launch conversion transmitter (DCT),
small-signal polar modulation (sometimes called “polar lite”), and large-signal open polar modulation, and compare them to the more effective, large-signal closed polar loop solution that delivers the best overall system performance and ease of
manufacturing....
Creating a synthetic instrument with virtual instrumentation technology
Aug 1, 2006
By Eric Starkloff While stand-alone test and measurement instrumentation has served well in specialized applications, high-performance electronics enable a new class of testing equipment referred to as virtual instrumentation that will allow general hardware architectures to be optimized for these same specific tasks through software....
Software addresses the military's hardware crisis
Aug 1, 2006
Mark Valentine, Technical Editor Complexity is at the heart of the software crisis, a broad term that emerged in the late 1960s to reflect the growing difficulty of developing effective...
Time and Frequency
Aug 1, 2006
Crystal oscillators Fox Electronics' XpressO oscillators incorporate patented technologies that allow the devices to operate with the same electrical...
Data-centric pervasive information is the wave of the future
Aug 1, 2006
By Stan Schneider The coming information infrastructure for pervasive, real-time data differs from the Internet. This new data-centric network will connect devices, not...
On the Road to Ubiquitous Wireless Connectivity
Aug 1, 2006
Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director We may not be there yet with ubiquitous wireless connectivity. But, the rate at which CMOS RF/analog, mixed-signal and digital signal-processing (DSP)...
