Clock ICs offer ultra-low jitter performance
Dec 2, 2004
RF Design staff To meet the clean system clock needs of high-performance applications, Analog Devices Inc. has developed a new family of clock ICs that feature ultra-low jitter performance for significant noise reduction in system-critical signal chains
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RFIC supplier ships total radio solution for EDGE handsets
Dec 2, 2004
RF Micro Devices, Inc. has announced volume production shipments of its POLARIS 2 Total Radio GSM/GPRS/EDGE transceiver solution to Motorola for use in its V551 and V547 EDGE handsets...
California Eastern Laboratories names new president
Dec 2, 2004
California Eastern Laboratories, NEC's exclusive sales and marketing arm for the RF and wireless semiconductors, fiber optic lasers and detectors, optocouplers and solid state relays manufactured by NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices, Ltd., has announced a new president...
National Lab, SSP team develops software-defined active RFID interrogators
Nov 24, 2004
RF Design staff The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S subsidiary of the Canadian DSP house Spectrum Signal Processing will jointly develop multipurpose software-defined radio frequency identification interrogators for multiple funded programs addressing military logistics, homeland security and commercial transportation applications...
FBAR duplexer, transmit filter boasts 100th design win
Nov 23, 2004
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced its 100th design win for its leading-edge miniature film bulk acoustic resonator duplexer and full-band transmit filter...
RF subsystem supports European, U.S. and Japanese frequency bands
Nov 23, 2004
UbiNetics and Renesas Technology Corp. have signed an agreement for the development of an RF solution capable of supporting wideband CDMA and high-speed downlink packet access in the frequency bands used in Europe, U.S. and Japan...
Very low-power tuner IC enables broadcast reception in mobile devices
Nov 18, 2004
Freescale Semiconductor's solution for digital video broadcast to handheld devices will allow cell phone users seeking rich multimedia TV-style feeds to use their cell phones as TV receivers...
LXI Consortium adds a new member
Nov 17, 2004
The LXI Consortium has announced that Aeroflex will join the recently formed standards organization...
MBOA SIG unveils UWB physical 1.0 specs
Nov 11, 2004
RF Design staff Hoping to make a dent in the emerging ultra-wideband market, the Multiband OFDM Alliance special interest group unveiled its completed physical layer 1.0 specifications at this week’s Electronica in Munich, Germany...
Integrated 1.6 GHz tunable oscillator powered by MEMS technology
Nov 11, 2004
At this week's MWE 2004 conference in Yokohama, Japan, Discera, Inc. demonstrated prototypes of a 1.6 GHz tunable oscillator powered by its micron-scale PureSilicon resonator, proprietary RF/analog circuitry and packaging technologies...
PCTEL expands mobile antenna operation
Oct 28, 2004
RF Design staff To strengthen its position in the high-growth wireless communications sector, RF communications products supplier PCTEL Inc., Chicago, Ill., has entered into an agreement to acquire selected assets associated with Andrew Corporations' mobile antenna business...
AutoCell optimizes wireless LAN performance
Oct 28, 2004
Propagate Networks, Inc. and Taiwan's Accton Technology Corp. have announced that they will develop self-optimizing wireless local area network access points available to Accton OEM partners...
Tektronix, Virginia Tech collaborate on development of SDR test bed
Oct 21, 2004
RF Design staff Tektronix, Inc. is collaborating with the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group at Virginia Tech in the development of a software-defined radio test
bed and open source software communications architecture implementation embedded ...
ITU-T group agrees to procedure for verifying jitter receiver measurement accuracy
Oct 21, 2004
Based on a recent meeting of the International Telecommunications Union Study Group 4, Agilent Technologies Inc. said the Jitter Working Party has agreed in principle to the draft of ITU-T O.172 Appendix VII, "Method for Verification of Measurement Result Accuracy and Intrinsic Fixed Error" ...
