Global MEMS Market To Near $9 Billion in 2012
Sep 4, 2008
The latest iSuppli Corp. research report on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) projects that demands from consumer electronics products and wireless applications will push the global market for MEMS devices to $8.8 billion by 2012. ...
Anritsu Announces EDGE Evolution Test Solution
Jul 31, 2008
Anritsu Company has developed a pair of measurement software packages that, when teamed with the firm's hardware test equipment, forms the company's first EDGE Evolution test solution...
Waveform creation software simplifies testing MIMO signals
Jun 19, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor Test & measurement equipment supplier Keithley Instruments, Inc. released version 2.0 of its PC based waveform creation software with expanded signal library for both SISO and MIMO wireless standards...
X parameters: Looking beyond S parameters
Jun 5, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor Unlike S-parameters, X-parameters represent and analyze the nonlinear behavior of RF components in a much more robust and complete manner...
Fully integrated flicker noise measurement system is unprecedented
May 22, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor With the cost of developing each new semiconductor manufacturing-process node escalating dramatically and time to market pressures increasing, there is no longer room for error in measuring critical wafer parameters such as flicker noise...
Vertical architecture gives RF designers an LDMOS alternative
May 8, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor As RF power amplifier designers weigh cost, efficiency, linearity, thermal performance and peak power in transistors, HVVi Semiconductors, Inc., is giving engineers a new silicon alternative...
RFID labeling and tracking gets smarter
May 1, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor By bringing to market smart active label chips, Wollerau, Switzerland based RFID chip supplier IDS Microchip AG has significantly widened the scope of affordable automatic data logging for RFID applications...
SiGe PA optimizes performance of WiFi systems
Apr 17, 2008
SiGe Semiconductor, Inc. has developed a new 2.4 GHz power amplifier (PA) using its proven architecture and advanced silicon germanium (SiGe) process...
EDA integrated solution slashes RF-PCB development time in half
Apr 10, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor Software tools suppliers Mentor Graphics Corp. and Agilent Technologies’ EEsof EDA division have been quietly working for last two years to develop an integrated platform that slashes RF-PCB development time in half...
Ultrahigh-speed cores target unprecedented data acquisition system
Mar 27, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor TiaLinx, Inc. has developed ultrahigh-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC), multiplexer (Mux) and de-multiplexer (De-mux) cores for design of ultrahigh speed data acquisition system...
GaN proponents unwrap plans at GOMACTech
Mar 20, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor RF semiconductor supplier and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor has placed a large commercial GaN wafer order to IQE plc, manufacturer of advanced semiconductor wafers...
Triquint acquires WJ Communications
Mar 13, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor RF semiconductor manufacturer and foundry service provider TriQuint Semiconductor has inked an acquisition deal with WJ Communications, Inc. and a derivative of a well known industry name Watkins-Johnson Company...
Integrated power and audio chip is optimized for PND systems
Mar 6, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor Unterpremstaetten, Austria based high performance analog ICs supplier austriamicrosystems has launched a highly integrated power and audio management unit with sophisticated audio features for personal navigation devices (PND)...
Digital input, Class-D amplifier employs closed loop feedback for improving sound quality
Feb 28, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor To improve sound quality, reduce power demands and lower audio subsystem costs, semiconductor giant Texas Instruments Inc. has developed what it claims is the industry's first digital-input, 20-Watt stereo Class-D speaker amplifier with closed loop feedback...
Handheld test system targets triple play services
Feb 20, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor Eyeing this emerging market, Sunrise Telecom Inc. has launched a highly integrated modular test toolkit (MTT) for the industry’s first comprehensive access infrastructure, in-home wiring and triple play services...
Joint reference design delivers WiMAX femtocell access point solution
Feb 14, 2008
Freescale Semiconductor and Sequans Communications have combined technologies to ready mobile WiMAX femtocell AP reference design that promises to shrink form factors and lower cost of development...
Cisco invests in femtocell start-up
Jan 24, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor Eyeing emerging picocell and femtocell markets, computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. has made a strategic investment in Cambridge, UK based developer ip.access. ...
