Emerging Wireless Technology Headlines

RF MEMS switches enters the mobile phone business
Aug 1, 2007
Yole Dveloppement, a market research firm based in France, has released its RF MEMS analysis. The RF MEMS Switch market report is an analysis of the market...

Power-saving techniques for beacon-based wireless control and monitoring networks
Aug 1, 2007 By David Ewing
The world is currently seeing an exponential growth in the use of wireless networks for control and monitoring in consumer, commercial, industrial and...

Re-adjustable resistor maintains high accuracy over wide temperature range
Aug 1, 2007 By Ashok Bindra
Many precision analog, sensor and power supply circuits need some kind of temperature compensation and calibration to maintain performance and accuracy....

Nanotechnology developer and U.S. Army test nanobattery and magnetometer
Aug 1, 2007
The U.S. Army and mPhase Technologies have signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) from the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development,...

Laird Technologies establishes novel materials research lab in India
Aug 1, 2007
To further strengthen its global technology and engineering capabilities, Laird Technologies has established a novel materials research laboratory in...

Advanced helmet-mounted displays delivered to flight school
Aug 1, 2007
L-3 Communications' L-3 Link Simulation and Training (L-3 Link) division has begun integrating its Advanced Helmet Mounted Display (AHMD) system into...

RFID organizations support software development
Aug 1, 2007
A group of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology organizations have announced support for the open-source development of EPCglobal-compliant...

Use coplanar waveguide probes for accuracy and repeatability of RF measurements
Aug 1, 2007 By Jerry Schappacher
As consumer devices like cell phones, laptop computers and PDAs get smaller, users are now expecting more functions in a single piece of equipment. They...

Small UAV completes flight using hybrid fuel-cell/battery
Aug 1, 2007
AeroVironment (AV) has successfully flown its Puma small unmanned aircraft for nearly five hours while it was powered by an onboard fuel-cell/battery...

Low ESR tantalum capacitors for radar applications
Aug 1, 2007 By Chris Reynolds
Radar is one example of an application that requires pulsed power. In these systems, energy is delivered instantaneously so that minimal voltage droop...

Cellular broadcast EAS for FEMA pilot program goes live
Aug 1, 2007
Einstein Wireless, a Wisconsin-based wireless carrier, has become the only wireless carrier in the nation to launch a cell broadcast system that will...

Naval exercise includes unmanned underwater vehicles
Aug 1, 2007
The Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command (NMAWC) Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Platoon has completed its support of Talisman Saber 2007,...

Products
Aug 1, 2007
RF circulators The HDRFI series of RF circulators from Tensolite is based upon the D38999 MIL-SPEC and accepts the same hardware and backshells that are...

Novatel Wireless partners with ICG
Aug 1, 2007
Novatel Wireless has announced a strategic partnership with Internet Connectivity Group (ICG), a solution provider in the wireless Internet and digital...

Extending wireless technologies to the disabled
Aug 1, 2007 Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director
In this column in June, the focus was on in-body and on-body communications made possible by implantable radio transceiver chips developed by IC suppliers...

Products
Aug 1, 2007
Amplifiers Optical converter and driver amplifier The iT6134 from iTerra generates an RZ format from a NRZ data stream and clock signal, and is optimized...

Supplier develops plastic fuel cell
Aug 1, 2007
TVN Systems in Lawrence, Kan., has developed a plastic fuel cell that could potentially be developed into a portable power source for military electronics,...

Mobile satellite services and ad hoc networks expand tactical edge communications
Aug 1, 2007 By Etzel C. BrowerJr.
Fixed satellite services (FSS) were once used in conjunction with tactical radios to provide the entire chain of communications between the tactical edge...

Blended-wing test vehicle completes first flight
Aug 1, 2007
The Boeing blended-wing-body (BWB) research aircraft, the X-48B, flew for the first time in July at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air...

Stabile high-Q inductors are critical in frequency-hopping radios
Aug 1, 2007 By Rich Barden
Secure communication has come a long way since the U.S. Marines used Navaho in the Pacific Theater of WWII so enemies could not make use of intercepted...

Effectively testing MIMO-enabled wireless devices
Aug 1, 2007 By Graham Celine
Multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) technology, the foundation for the next generation of Wi-Fi products, leverages multiple transmit and receive antennas...

Time & Frequency
Aug 1, 2007
1700-2700 MHz, 5 W amplifier Telecom timing IC Maxim Integrated Products' DS3104 provides full carrier-class clock synchronization for synchronous Ethernet...

Precise accelerometer uses Fabry-Perot technology
Aug 1, 2007
Primarily intended for applications with high-cost sensitivity or limited GPS access (such as expendable smart munitions or unmanned underwater vehicles),...

CESI, Tektronix set up joint lab in China
Aug 1, 2007
Tektronix and China Electronics Standardization Institution (CESI) have set up a joint lab for advanced research and assessment of digital RF and digital...

Passives epitomize benefits of complementary capabilities require backward compatibility
Aug 1, 2007 Mark Valentine, Technical Editor
Somewhere between basic electricity and solid-state electronics, student engineers are presented with the capacitor, the inductor, and then a full introduction...

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