Development tool speeds precision digital filtering designs
Jan 3, 2007
A new development tool from Quickfilter Technologies, Inc. simplifies the task of adding precision digital filtering to designs based on the Texas Instruments' MSP430 ultra-low power microcontrollers. ...
MLCCs employ reverse-geometry terminations
Dec 21, 2006
TAIYO YUDEN's WK series of multiplayer ceramic capacitors employs reverse-geometry terminations and other design improvements to provide high performance relative to device size....
Test system supports WiMAX frequencies
Dec 21, 2006
LitePoint's tri-band version of the IQmax one-box test system supports testing fixed and mobile WiMAX products in the 2.15 GHz to 2.7 GHz and 4.9 GHz to 6.0 GHz bands....
Bidirectional video filters/buffers enable connector sharing
Dec 21, 2006
The MAX7481/MAX7482 from Maxim Integrated Products are bidirectional video filters/buffers that provide reconstruction filters and line drive buffers for both composite video and S-video signals in playback mode for consumer devices....
Amplifier is ultra linear
Dec 14, 2006
Stealth Microwave has introduced an ultra-linear gallium arsenide FET
amplifier for digital video broadcast applications.
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Signal generator offers four phase synchronous channels
Dec 14, 2006
Novatech Instruments, Inc. has released a four-channel 170 MHz direct digital synthesizer
table top signal generator with 0.1Hz frequency resolution and +/- 1.5 ppm accuracy.
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Board level shielding is thermally enhanced
Dec 14, 2006
Combining thermal interface materials with board level shielding, Laird Technologies has developed a thermally enhanced board level shielding technology, labeled T-BLS, that combines EMI shielding and thermal management in a single assembly solution. ...
RF Toolbox ensures signal integrity
Dec 14, 2006
To enable signal integrity engineers to design, model, analyze, and visualize networks of radio frequency components commonly found in high-speed digital electronics, the MathWorks has unwrapped RF Toolbox 2. ...
RF flip-chip tuners tune TV and digital radio bands
Dec 7, 2006
The MAX2161 and MAX2162 dual-band, dual-mode tuners for Japanese digital broadcasts from Maxim Integrated Products receive UHF and VHF band III and support both 1-segment and 3-segment broadcasts using the ISDB-T standard. ...
DSP includes enhanced memory and I/O bandwidth
Dec 7, 2006
The TMS320C6454 DSP from Texas Instruments is a 1 GHz DSP based on the improved TMS320C64x+ DSP core and highest-performing DSP architecture. ...
IR modules are optimized for pulse-distance coding
Nov 30, 2006
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has announced the addition of four new modules featuring superior performance for pulse-distance coding to its TSOP1xxxx series of IR receivers....
InGaP HBT power amplifiers support 28 V operation
Nov 21, 2006
WJ Communications launched a new family of next-generation high-efficiency RF power amplifier modules, utilizing the industry's first 28 V InGaP HBT process technology. ...
MMIC VCO features low phase noise
Nov 21, 2006
The HMC532LP4/ HMC532LP4E MMIC VCO from Hittite Microwave provides low phase noise and high output power for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, VSAT, military and test equipment applications from 7.1 GHz to 7.9 GHz....
Quad DAC features software-programmable outputs
Nov 21, 2006
Linear Technology introduces the LTC2704-16, a 16-bit, quad voltage-output DAC with six software-programmable output voltage ranges. ...
LVDS Deserializer Reduces EMI
Nov 21, 2006
The MAX9254 from Maxim Integrated Products is hot-swappable, high-output-drive, 21-bit, dc-balanced LVDS de-serializer with programmable
spread-spectrum. ...
Compact antenna enables slim handset designs
Nov 16, 2006
Pulse, a Technitrol company, has launched an internal mobile TV antenna family at the Electronica trade show in Munich, Germany. ...
