Products
Aug 1, 2006
Amplifiers Solid-state microwave amplifier Keragis Corporation's designed solid-state microwave amplifier dodecahedron module (patent pending) provides...
Smiths Aerospace streamlines product design process
Aug 1, 2006
Altair Engineering has announced that Smiths Aerospace UK, has selected the Altair HyperWorks CAE technology suite to support the development and structural...
Harnessing the potential of powerline communications using the HomePlug AV standard
Aug 1, 2006
By Srinivas Katar, Manjunath Krishnam, Richard Newman and Haniph Latchman Using powerline communications for home networking is getting increasing attention. This article discusses the challenges posed by PLC channels and how the HomePlug AV standard overcomes them....
Blue Crab nano-sensor detects dangerous substances
Aug 1, 2006
A substance found in crab shells is the key component in a nano-scale sensor system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James...
Products
Aug 1, 2006
Military specification oscillators A series of military-specification clock oscillators from Euroquartz is for use in aerospace, defense and similar hostile...
The MachineTalker iRFID to undergo HERO testing
Aug 1, 2006
MachineTalker has shipped its Intelligent RFID units for submission to the HERO certification process. When qualified, the company's iRFID product can...
Focus Enhancements readies UWB evaluation kit
Aug 1, 2006
Wireless video technologies developer Focus Enhancements Inc. has readied an ultrawideband (UWB) evaluation system targeting the development of both personal...
Measuring high-speed signals with an active differential probe
Aug 1, 2006
By Ashok Bindra, editorial director For high-speed design and analysis, Tektronix recently introduced wide bandwidth DSA/DPO70000 oscilloscopes. To ensure signal integrity and accurate measurements when verifying, debugging and testing high-speed signals with these new-generation instruments, probes play a crucial role....
Designing and simulating THz wire waveguides using FEM modeling
Aug 1, 2006
By Jason A. Deibel and Daniel M. Mittleman This article outlines the requirments for effective THz waveguides, explains a solution to this engineering dilemma, and shows how finite element method modeling is being used to develop an effective and efficient THz waveguide system....
High-resolution radar system modeling with MATLAB/SIMULINK
Aug 1, 2006
By Dmitriy Garmatyuk Radar systems have been used extensively over the past decade for a variety of applications and in a multitude of configurations. One of the relatively...
Frost & Sullivan
Jul 1, 2006
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.semiconductors.frost.com) suggests that the market for UWB chipsets, which had nil shipments in 2005, will generate...
Highly integrated transceiver enables high-volume production of GSM/EDGE handsets
Jul 1, 2006
By Patrick Morgan 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....
ULTRAWIDEBAND PRODUCTS
Jul 1, 2006
UWB generator maximizes protocol implementation quality A byte-level frame generator from Ellisys is available. Known as the UWB generator 320, this product...
RFID Tribe's Registered Education Provider program
Jul 1, 2006
RFID Tribe, an association for RFID professionals, has launched its Registered Education Provider (REP) program. To serve its worldwide community of RFID...
Low power, giga speed programmable divider in 0.18 m CMOS
Jul 1, 2006
By Girish N. Jadhav 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....
Staccato Communications and Tektronix
Jul 1, 2006
Staccato Communications (www.staccato.com) and Tektronix (www.tektronix.com) recently demonstrated the latest UWB test capabilities at the Certified Wireless...
Understanding UWB over coax
Jul 1, 2006
By Dan Friedman A properly optimized wireless UWB chipset/coax solution is capable of traversing coax splitters and distances throughout the home to achieve a whole-home network....
Products
Jul 1, 2006
Active Components Laser diode The of DFB and SM-VCSELs in on-wafer technology was successful at the HHI in Berlin. The implemented horizontal cavity surface-emitting...
ITC delays final SigmaTel, Actions patent decision
Jul 1, 2006
The U.S. International Trade Commission has delayed final determination of a patent infringement suit between Chinese fabless company Actions Semiconductor...
