Industrial radio is reliable, secure and Ethernet capable
Mar 15, 2007
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director ISM band spread spectrum radio manufacturer FreeWave Technologies has launched a 900 MHz industrial radio that supports TCP, industrial grade wireless security and serial communications. ...
TeraVicta unveils RF MEMS roadmap
Mar 15, 2007
RF MEMS switches supplier TeraVicta Technologies, Inc.has unwrapped a product roadmap to extends the reach of its new switching technology. ...
RadioScape extends software radio to ADI DSP
Mar 15, 2007
To extend its software radio solution to other programmable semiconductor devices, RadioScape has adopted Analog Devices’ Blackfin BF52x series of processors. ...
Motorola makes strategic investment in WHDI technology
Mar 15, 2007
Motorola, Inc. has made an equity investment in Amimon Inc., a fabless semiconductor company developing wireless high-definition interface technology. ...
IEEE issues call for proposals to create BPL standard
Mar 15, 2007
Much delayed broadband-over-powerline got a big boost this week when IEEE P1901 working group issued a call for proposals to standardize baseline BPL....
Company Provides Solutions for Army tactical communications
Mar 8, 2007
By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor, RF Design Trace Systems has been named a subcontractor for part of a larger project contract awarded to D&S Consultants, Inc. in support of the U.S. Army's Worldwide Satellite Systems program. ...
Digi-Key to distribute design software and components
Mar 8, 2007
Digi-Key will distribute products from Keil in the Americas and Europe. Keil, an ARM Company, makes C compilers, macro assemblers, real-time kernels, debuggers, simulators, integrated environments, evaluation boards and emulators for ARM7/ARM9/ARM Cortex-M3, XC16x/C16x/ST10, 251 and 8051 processor-based microcontroller families. ...
Femtocell reference design addresses synchronization
Mar 1, 2007
Wireless solutions provider picoChip is working with Semtech to enhance its market-leading femtocell reference designs using Semtech's advanced packet timing solution....
Wireless Ethernet gains ground in industrial networking
Mar 1, 2007
A recent report on global markets and user requirements for wireless and wireline network infrastructure products in industrial facilities finds extensive deployment of wireless Ethernet networking, with a trend toward even greater usage....
Antenna supplier acquires Korean company
Mar 1, 2007
Laird Technologies has acquired M2sys Co. Ltd, a privately held company specializing in the design and manufacturing of custom products based on proprietary and patented technology, for $33.1 million. ...
Development tool enables advanced mobile applications
Feb 22, 2007
Ubiquity Software has launched its Session Initiation Protocol Application Server Gateway for Microsoft Connected Services Framework, a development tool designed to enable the creation, testing and trial of "mashup" applications based on the Microsoft's Connected Services Framework and Ubiquity’s SIP A/S. ...
Contract awarded for next-generation manufacturing test solution
Feb 22, 2007
Agilent Technologies has been awarded a $12.6 million contract by Raytheon, under which Agilent will deliver an advanced, next-generation automated manufacturing test platform. ...
Wi-Fi array provides real-time load balancing
Feb 22, 2007
Xirrus has announced that the Xirrus' Wi-Fi Array provides advanced real-time load balancing by distributing client devices across all 16 802.11a/b/g radios of a Wi-Fi Array. ...
On-chip phase-change memory module operates at high speed
Feb 22, 2007
Hitachi and Renesas Technology have developed a 512 KB phase-change memory module operating from 1.5 V. The device achieves write speeds of 416 KBps and read access times of 20 ns. ...
Technique stabilizes 45 nm bulk CMOS on-chip SRAM
Feb 22, 2007
Renesas Technology and Matsushita Electric have developed a technique that achieves stable operation with 45 nm process generation bulk CMOS for SRAM that can be embedded in SoC devices and microprocessors. ...
Broadband sigma-delta ADC digitizes all FM radio channels simultaneously
Feb 15, 2007
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director This week at the IEEE’s International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC’07) in San Francisco. Calif., NXP Semiconductors took a major step forward in broadband communications...
Application processor handles HD video for mobile phones
Feb 15, 2007
At 3GSM World Congress this week, Texas Instruments demonstrated an applications processor that plays back 720p high-definition (HD) video for high-end mobile phones. ...
Readying test gear for 3G LTE
Feb 15, 2007
Aeroflex has outlined its initial strategy for the development of test products to support the new 3G Long-Term Evolution standard, 3GPP’s vision for ensuring that 3G remains the dominant global cellular technology going forward into the next decade. ...
GPS solution combines RF and passive antenna in a single package
Feb 15, 2007
UK’s integrated antenna solutions provider Antenova Ltd. has unwrapped a GPS RADIONOVA RF antenna module for embedded GPS applications for mobile handsets, personal navigation devices (PNDs), PDAs and laptop computers...
Bluetooth chip targets computing platforms
Feb 6, 2007
By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor The AR3011 from Atheros Communications is the first member of the ROCm Radio-on-Chip for Mobile family of Bluetooth solutions. ...
