Supply agreement extends strategic relationship
Feb 1, 2007
Motorola Inc. has reaffirmed its strategic relationship with Freescale Semiconductor by selecting the Austin-based company as a preferred supplier of...
SiC technology will meet the military's future needs
Feb 1, 2007
By Marcelo Schupbach and Alexander Lostetter While reduction in size, weight and thermal management requirements enabled by SiC technology will meet the demands of future military systems, the military, as an early adopter, will speed the development of SiC devices for commercial applications....
Army awards HYPRES contract to develop RF electronics
Feb 1, 2007
HYPRES has received two new contracts totaling approximately $1.5 million from the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering...
Amplifiers
Feb 1, 2007
SiGe power amplifier The MAAP-008015 amplifier from M/A-COM, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, is a 2.4 GHz linear power amplifier for 802.11b/g multiple-input...
Thermoelectric generators can enhance military medicine
Feb 1, 2007
By Ingo Stark The miniaturization and reduced power consumption of modern electronics draws attention to emerging energy-harvesting technologies that provide power...
Products
Feb 1, 2007
Tricolor bar graph OTEK has added its model SEB (switchboard LED bar graph) to its line of low-cost bar graphs with LCD or LED display and serial I/O....
Designing broadband WiMAX PA using GaN power transistors
Feb 1, 2007
By Robert Therrien, Walter Nagy and Isik C. Kizilyalli In addition to investigating the performance and design benefits of using gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors in broadband WiMAX applications, this article also presents RF performance achieved with silicon substrate and plastic overmold packaging for these transistors....
Arrival-time detection reduces PLL jitter
Feb 1, 2007
By Wen Lin Careful attention to delay matching and harnessing the properties of metastability in logic circuits can stabilize the output of a single-ended charge pump, thereby reducing voltage-controlled oscillator phase noise in a phase-locked loop....
Products
Feb 1, 2007
Consumer Electronics External PCI Express boxes Mobility Electronics' Magma ExpressBox1 and ExpressBox1 Pro are external PCI Express boxes providing a...
Removing the interstage transmit SAW in WCDMA
Feb 1, 2007
By Tajinder Manku This article analyzes the trade-offs required for removing the Tx SAW from the transceiver and duplexer sections of the handset....
CSR acquisitions enable sub $1 GPS in handsets
Feb 1, 2007
CSR, based in Cambridge, UK, continuing its strategy of diversification, has acquired NordNav Technologies AB and Cambridge Positioning Systems, which...
Meeting mobile WiMAX performance requirements
Feb 1, 2007
By David Patterson and Lars Johnsson This article discusses a new-generation chipset that is designed to meet the performance demands a mobile WiMAX handsets and laptops....
Embedded data distribution service
Feb 1, 2007
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has been selected by Microsoft Corporation to join the Windows Embedded Partner Program. As a new Windows Embedded Partner,...
Beceem and Elliptic collaborate on WiMAX security
Feb 1, 2007
Beceem Communications, a supplier of chipsets for the Mobile WiMAX terminal market and Elliptic, a supplier of security IP products, will extend their...
Moving beyond the limitations of 3G
Feb 1, 2007
Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director At this month's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, cellular phone manufacturers displayed their latest wireless wares, ranging from high-end music-enabled...
RF wireless burst analysis using oscilloscopes
Feb 1, 2007
By Mike Hertz With real-time oscilloscope bandwidths now topping 18 GHz, capturing and analyzing the full band of ultrahigh-frequency RF signals is possible due to rapid performance advancements in real-time acquisition technology. ...
VoIP IC market grows as consumer offerings expand
Feb 1, 2007
According to In-Stat, the VoIP IC market is not only growing, but is shifting as consumer offerings expand. Wireless and video will play stronger roles...
Research company awarded $20 million naval contract
Feb 1, 2007
Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Sea Warfare and Weapons Department, Ships Systems and Engineering...