Antenna chip tailored for mobile TV
May 1, 2007
Netanya, Israel-based Siano Mobile Silicon, a developer of semiconductor solutions for mobile digital TV (MDTV), and Vishay Intertechnology have unveiled...
CONVERGED MOBILE DEVICE PRODUCTS
May 1, 2007
Network operating platform simplifies ZigBee applications The Tendril network operating platform has been improved and expanded to dramatically simplify...
Selecting the right signal combiner
Apr 1, 2007
By Tony Ramsden This article is intended to highlight the benefits of the many options available to today's system engineers. And, thereby, attempts to help the designer in selecting the right signal combiner for the desired application....
Products
Apr 1, 2007
Hermetic microelectronic packages CPS Technologies offers hermetic microelectronic packages. Made from materials such as Kovar, aluminum and steel, the...
Virginia Tech selects UPS for DARPA Urban Challenge
Apr 1, 2007
Team VictorTango from Virginia Tech has chosen Tripp Lite's SMART3000RM2U SmartPro UPS Systems to ensure reliable power in its autonomous ground vehicles...
CCATSM San Diego announces business services awardees
Apr 1, 2007
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) in San Diego, Calif. has presented business service awards to two small companies that...
Passive Components
Apr 1, 2007
Soft ferrite sample kit MMG has developed a sample kit that includes a variety of soft ferrite core materials in toroid, balun and squaroid geometries....
Mobile applications continue to spur advances in TV tuners
Apr 1, 2007
Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director As digital technology permeates the mobile TV space, designers are combining advances in CMOS and silicon germanium BiCMOS processes with digital architectures and proprietary algorithms to deliver tuners that support multiple bands of frequencies and handle numerous standards with ultralow power consumption....
Dongbu, Cadence develop design kit
Apr 1, 2007
With the assistance of EDA supplier Cadence Design Systems, Seoul, South Korea-based Dongbu Electronics has developed an RF process design kit (PDK) that...
Partners address IP system support needs
Apr 1, 2007
NextNine and Apparent Networks are partnering to offer technical support solutions for optimal network performance, based on their respective technologies....
Platform simplifies development of ZigBee applications
Apr 1, 2007
To simplify and expedite the development and deployment of ZigBee applications, network management software developer Tendril has unwrapped an improved...
Converter performance approaches software-defined radio requirements
Apr 1, 2007
By Brad Brannon While most of the technical bottlenecks to realizing true software-defined radio can be found in the linear and mixed-signal processing components, recent trends in ADCs and DACs have moved their levels of performance one step closer to achieving that goal....
Products
Apr 1, 2007
Amplifiers MMIC power amplifier M/A-COM's MAAP-007649-000100 is a 2 W power amplifier for the 800 MHz to 1000 MHz frequency band. The design gives optimum...
Electronics can thwart man's worst enemy
Apr 1, 2007
Mark Valentine, Technical Editor The automobile kills more Americans than all wars combined. Several factors that have made commercial flights so much safer can be applied to improve the safety of road travel....
Speeding up manufacturing test of WiMAX equipment
Apr 1, 2007
By Christian Olgaard This article attempts to show that by optimizing the capability of the device under test's driver to generate special non-linked mode signals, in combination with advanced trigger and analysis methods, it can lead to test times that are many times faster than what is currently possible....
Terminating ultraflexible and high-strength cables
Apr 1, 2007
By Donald Dodge Complete cable assembly methods used to meet stringent military specifications will be addressed in this article, including jacket remoAval, shield termination, insulation stripping, and attaching of the contacts to the shield termination and final potting or sealing of the assembly....
Using MCPAs as active combiners for optimizing the 3G transition
Apr 1, 2007
By Christopher Zappala and Jeffrey Strahler Wireless operators have used multicarrier power amplifiers to increase the coverage and capacity of existing base stations. Most often, the MCPAs have operated in TDMA and CDMA environments, and not in GSM systems, until recently. With active combining emerging as the MCPA's primary application, 3G networks are becoming the target for deployment. In addition to describing what is active combining, this article shows how MCPAs can help transition to 3G networks....
LEDs and photovoltaics meet military airstrip lighting challenges
Apr 1, 2007
By Allister Wilmott Portable solar-powered LED lights are in widespread use for rapid-response and permanent military and civilian runway, heliport and airfield lighting applications....
Locating SSC errors using modulation profiles
Apr 1, 2007
By Mike Hertz Spread spectrum clocking allows for clocked devices to reduce radiated emissions by frequency-modulating the signal. This controlled modulation distributes the energy of the carrier across a wider frequency range, thereby reducing peak power....
NXP powers Chinese handset
Apr 1, 2007
China's biggest mobile handset manufacturer Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Ltd. has chosen NXP Semiconductors' EDGE solution for its first EDGE...
Miniature FM antenna fits inside handset
Apr 1, 2007
Antenna solutions provider Laird Technologies has developed an FM antenna solution that can be incorporated directly inside a handset device, offering...
