Products
Apr 1, 2006
Active Components RF detector includes fast comparator Linear Technology's LTC5536 is an RF power detector that includes a fast comparator. It combines...
ARM technology to be used in UWB devices and systems
Apr 1, 2006
ARM has announced that industry-leading UWB chip and hardware companies Alereon, Focus Enhancements, Mindtree Consulting, Pulse~LINK and Staccato Communications...
March 2006 Products
Mar 23, 2006
This month's RF Design products include silicon avalanche photodiodes, a software-based GPS solution, HSDPA-compliant WCDMA amps......
Artificial Neural Networking Improves PA Design
Mar 1, 2006
By Jarno Kyhälä Artificial neural networking can be used to aid the design work of the device such as a power amplifier. This paper will discuss the ANN model generator implemented in the APLAC simulator, and show how ANN can be more efficient than conventional interpolation. It will also demonstrate the usefulness of ANN in electronics design using an example of optimizing a matching network for a power amplifier....
NEWS WORTHY
Mar 1, 2006
Texas Instruments Texas Instruments (www.ti.com) has completed its acquisition of Chipcon (www.chipcon.com), a company that designs short-range, low-power...
Super-rugged RF MOSFETs handle up to 165 V
Mar 1, 2006
Advanced Power Technology RF has added the ARF475FL to its high-voltage, flangeless packaged, RF power MOSFETs. It uses a newly patented process and finer...
ZigBee reaches a key turning point
Mar 1, 2006
By Cheryl Ajluni, Editor In many ways, the ZigBee standard and the path it has taken to get to this point in time is a lesson in how to do a standard right. Many of the members...
ZigBee quick tips and resources
Mar 1, 2006
Over the course of the last year, tremendous momentum has been building for ZigBee. The low-power wireless sensor networking market, based primarily on...
Microwave/millimeter-wave components
Mar 1, 2006
MMIC VCOs Hittite Microwave Corporation has extended its line of GaAs HBT MMIC VCOs with fundamental, half- and quarter-frequency outputs. These SMT-packaged...
Understanding ZigBee transmission
Mar 1, 2006
By Cyril Descleves Today's high technology marketplace demands more capability and reliability from wireless technologies. This is especially true of low-cost, low-power...
What's next on the horizon for ZigBee?
Mar 1, 2006
By Cheryl Ajluni, Editor While ZigBee itself is not new, having been officially ratified as a standard on Dec. 14, 2004, what is new is that certification of products based on...
Bringing SOI to fabless IC design houses
Mar 1, 2006
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) IP developer SOISIC has announced that one of its leading foundry customers has successfully produced six working ICs using...
RF power options in ZigBee solutions
Mar 1, 2006
By Tim Cutler Among the new ZigBee wireless standard's many desirable attributes, low power is perhaps the most frequently mentioned. That descriptor sits at the center...
SigmaTel, Infineon enter strategic partnership
Mar 1, 2006
SigmaTel Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG have entered into an agreement to offer Bluetooth solutions for portable digital multimedia devices. Under...
ZigBee Products
Mar 1, 2006
Modules make ZigBee easy The ETRX1 family of low-cost, low-power, mesh network modules combines application hardware, integration and toolkits from Telegesis...
Choosing RF CMOS or SiGe BiCMOS in mixed-signal design
Mar 1, 2006
By Adam H. Pawlikiewicz and David Hess This article discusses key issues that need to be considered when deciding what technology to choose for mixed-signal or wireless system-on-a-chip design. The article reviews the basic performance criteria and characteristics in an easy to understand language, and describes how they affect the performance of chips....
Accurate high-frequency noise modeling in SiGe HBTs
Mar 1, 2006
By Mohamed A. Selim Mobile wireless communications links demand sensitive and highly selective transceiver circuits. The dynamic range and sensitivity of the RF wireless link depends on the HF noise and linearity of the transistors used in the low-noise amplifiers. Correlation improves the simulation accuracy of noise analysis of the transistors....
Wireless solution boosts network capacity
Mar 1, 2006
TenXc Wireless Inc. has unveiled its PCS bi-sector array. The first in a line of cell site enhancement products, the PCS bi-sector array provides operators...
