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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
Designing energy-smart 3G base stations
Aug 1, 2007
By Tim Haynes Mobile consumers are now demanding bandwidths comparable to those that can be achieved in a fixed location. 3G networks based on W-CDMA, and other new...
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...
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...
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...
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...
