Freescale acquires fabless semi house
Oct 26, 2005
To further strengthen its portfolio of networking, wireless and consumer products, Freescale Semiconductor has acquired CommASIC, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, Calif....
Cisco investment in India to cross $1 billion mark
Oct 20, 2005
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director India’s rapid growth in IT technologies and Internet access has prompted networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. to make an enormous strategic investment in India over the next three years...
Harris Corp. rebuilds FM station destroyed by hurricane Katrina
Oct 20, 2005
Harris Corp.’s Broadcast Communications Division played a key role in rebuilding WQRZ-FM, a low-power FM station serving Hancock County, Mississippi that was nearly destroyed by the devastating effects of hurricane Katrina...
EWC accelerates development of 802.11n
Oct 20, 2005
Twenty-seven WiFi developers have formed a coalition to accelerate the IEEE 802.11n standard development process and promote a technology specification for next-generation wireless local area networking products...
SiGe-based BiCMOS hits fT of 130 GHz
Oct 13, 2005
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Royal Philips Electronics has readied a new version of silicon germanium-based BiCMOS process, labeled QUBiC4X, that features bipolar transistors with fT figures in excess of 130 GHz, making it suitable for microwave applications in the 10 to 30 GHz range such as satellite TV receivers and automotive collision avoidance radars...
GSM handsets get stereo streaming capability
Oct 13, 2005
Cambridge, UK-based CSR plc has confirmed that Samsung has selected its BlueCore silicon and software stack to bring advanced Bluetooth connectivity and stereo streaming capability to the Samsung GSM handsets ...
LeCroy unveils protocol solutions for UWB development and testing
Oct 13, 2005
LeCroy Corp. has unwrapped an advanced protocol analyzer for radio-based traffic for WiMedia Alliance’s ultra-wideband common radio platform and certified wireless USB from the USB-IF standards...
Semiconductor foundry delivers next-generation RF CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS processes
Oct 6, 2005
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director This week at the 2005 FSA conference, Jazz Semiconductor announced the availability of process design kits for its 0.13-micron RF CMOS process, CA13, followed by silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS early next year...
City of Manassas offers broadband over powerline
Oct 6, 2005
For utilities seeking to provide broadband alternative in areas with little or no access, Washington, D.C. suburb of Manassas, Virginia, has taken the lead...
Broadcom buys fabless semiconductor company
Oct 6, 2005
Broadcom Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Athena Semiconductors, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in the design and development of mobile digital television tuner and low-power WiFi technology...
Ultra-low-noise MMIC LAN enhances GPS handset performance
Sep 29, 2005
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Using its proprietary GaAs enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (E-pHEMT) process to achieve high gain operation with low noise figures and high linearity, Agilent Technologies Inc. has developed what it claims is the industry’s lowest noise figure 0.9 to 3.5 GHz monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) low-noise amplifier (LNA)...
Anritsu opens regional office in India
Sep 29, 2005
Anritsu Corp. has announced the opening of a sales and marketing office in Bangalore,
India, dubbed the "Silicon Valley" of the country...
Harris, Sandusky Radio form HD radio alliance
Sep 22, 2005
Harris Corp.’s Broadcast Communications Division has formed an alliance with Sandusky Radio, owner of 10 stations in the Seattle and Phoenix area, to exclusively provide digital transmitters for its three Seattle FM stations...
Detect-and-avoid technology mitigates interference
Sep 22, 2005
This week at CEPT Electronic Communications Committee meeting (ECC TG3) in Copenhagen, Denmark, ultra-wideband and wireless USB solutions provider Wisair demonstrated its "detect and avoid" technology to assist European and Japanese regulators in defining conditions and measures for UWB radio spectrum usage...
picoChip, ARM create single-chip SDR solution for advanced wireless systems
Sep 22, 2005
Bath, UK-based picoChip is planning to combine its next-generation picoArray flexible productrs with ARM processor technology to create an unprecedented single-chip, software-defined solution for advanced wireless systems...
Voice-over-RF chip streamlines home security system
Sep 22, 2005
Analog and mixed-signal semiconductor supplier Semtech Corp.’s voice-over-RF reference design has been selected by Tauxigny, France-based Avidsen, a subsidiary of the HF Company...
Far East taps software-defined radio technology
Sep 15, 2005
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Seeing the future in software-defined radio technology, South Korea and China continue to make deals in this field, ensuring that the products are ready when the market develops in a few years...
Dow sets sight on $65-billion optoelectronics market
Sep 15, 2005
To address the needs of customers in the $65-billion optoelectronics market, Dow Corning Corp. has announced that its photonics solutions business development program will become part of the company’s mainstream electronics business...
