Switching converter targets base station RF power amplifiers
May 3, 2007
When the power converter is in proximity to the PA in an RF transmitter, regardless of whether it is located at the top or the base of the antenna tower, the switching action of the converter is a potential source of RF interference. Many features of Lambda’s PAH450S series of power modules provide safeguards against this....
IBM, austriamicrosystems jointly advance high-voltage RF CMOS process
Apr 26, 2007
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director To further enhance its 180 nm (or 0.18 micron) RF CMOS process with high-voltage capability for its foundry customers, IBM Microelectronics has inked a development agreement with Austria’s austriamicrosystems AG. ...
Mobile Bluetooth offers superior sound performance
Apr 26, 2007
CSR has added Sonaptic’s SoundStage virtual surround system to its BlueCore5-Multimedia Bluetooth technology to provide users with an improved hi-fi stereo audio experience. ...
Firm receives contract for fiber-optic gyro systems
Apr 19, 2007
KVH has received a contract for the purchase of KVH's TACNAV II fiber optic gyro-based vehicle navigation systems and displays for use on new infantry fighting vehicles. ...
LTE initiative addresses 3G’s shortfalls
Apr 19, 2007
Texas Instruments has created a development ecosystem for Long Term Evolution technology to address the challenges of supporting IP-based applications set to deploy between 2008 and 2012....
Smart Radio Challenge targets student engineers
Apr 19, 2007
The Software Defined Radio Forum is accepting entries for its second annual Smart Radio Challenge, a worldwide competition in which student engineering teams design, develop and test a software-defined radio....
Wi-Fi solution brings internet gateways home
Apr 19, 2007
By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor, RF Design Hoping to drive adoption of low-cost WLAN in home applications, Atheros Communications has combined conventional 0.18 μm CMOS process technology with advances in architecture and design methodology to pack baseband, MAC and RF front-end functions on a single chip....
CMOS mobile TV tuner is smallest
Apr 12, 2007
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Combining its digital architecture with 0.13 µm CMOS process, fabless semiconductor start-up MaxLinear has developed a new silicon tuner for mobile TV applications, which the developer claims is the world’s smallest. ...
NTS selected as independent MoCA certifier
Apr 12, 2007
Engineering services provider National Technical Systems Inc. has announced that it has been selected by the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) as the exclusive lab to perform certifications for MoCA products. ...
New entity focuses on connected home entertainment
Apr 12, 2007
San Diego, Calif.-based home networking developer Entropic Communications, Inc. has inked a definitive agreement to acquire fabless RFICs designer RF Magic, also based in San Diego. ...
Client Wi-Fi card exploits CompactFlash form factor
Apr 5, 2007
Motorola’s latest addition to its wireless infrastructure portfolio, the LA-5127, is a wireless networker CompactFlash client radio card with 802.11b/g connectivity. ...
RF-blocking paint successfully tested
Apr 5, 2007
EM-SEC Technologies has announced that the tests performed around the perimeter of their "painted" SCIF yielded successful results for the protection of wireless devices and other electronic equipment within the structure. ...
Microwave equipment maker expands sales network
Apr 5, 2007
Tampa Microwave, designer and manufacturer of RF and microwave communications and test equipment, has added four firms to its sales representative network. ...
Clock multiplier provides any-rate frequency synthesis
Mar 29, 2007
Silicon Laboratories Inc. has introduced the industry's first jitter-attenuating clock multiplier IC that generates any output frequency from any input frequency with 0.3 picosecond jitter performance....
Plastic hermetic packaging meets JEDEC standards
Mar 29, 2007
Air cavity package developer Quantum Leap Packaging, Inc. has developed HermeTech, the industry's first hermetic plastic package that meets JEDEC standards. ...
R&S reveals measurement solutions for UMTS LTE
Mar 29, 2007
Rohde & Schwarz has announced that its R&S SMU200A signal generator and R&S FSQ signal analyzer are the first instruments enabled with UMTS long term evolution measurement capability. ...
Patent issued for multi-carrier communication
Mar 22, 2007
The U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,164,669, entitled "Multi-carrier communication with time division multiplexing and carrier-selective loading," to ADAPTIX. ...
Firms collaborate on high-definition networking entertainment products
Mar 22, 2007
Texas Instruments and Samsung have announced that Samsung is implementing TI's 1394 technology for High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance home entertainment networking products such as set-top-boxes and digital televisions. ...
Wireless controller supports universal bands
Mar 22, 2007
By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor, RF Design OTEK's recently developed multi-band 2-way wireless controller, or Model MBWC, supports four universally acceptable RF Bands without changing hardware or firmware. ...
