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Serial RapidIO Gen 2 in Next-Generation Wireless Base Stations
By Stephane Gagnon, IDT
Third- and fourth-generation wireless base stations that use today’s most-common interface standards, such as WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, LTE, TD-LTE and Wimax, require a large amount of signal processing to keep up with the uplink and downlink bandwidth requirements.
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The Emergence of JESD204A in Data Converters and Low Power FPGAs in Wireless Infrastructure Equipment
The increasing data throughput demands on base stations have led to increased radio unit component cost and power, with associated printed circuit board and interface complexities, as well as heightened signal integrity concerns.
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Bluetooth Low Energy – Not Just Another Radio Frequency Networking Protocol
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is fast-becoming the hottest buzz-word in low-power wireless communications. Within five years, we have seen a variety of standard and proprietary networking protocols emerge, begin to show promise, and occasionally open up new market spaces and fundamental opportunities for technical innovation. Is BLE just another low-power radio frequency (RF) networking protocol or something new to get excited about?
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Building an FPGA-based SoC Framework for LTE Baseband Designs
Radio Access Networks (RANs) are undergoing an architecture change to an all-IP flat network to reduce network deployment costs as well as to offer rich mobile applications and services at a lower end-to-end latency.
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Transmitter RFIC Integration for Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure Radios
The migration to 3G and LTE Advance for the next generation of mobile communications infrastructure equipment provides many challenges for the equipment and component suppliers.
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LTE: The Insatiable Need for Bandwidth Drives Architectural Change
The baseband processing function represents a key area of product differentiation for Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs). However, the advent of 3.9/4G systems poses a difficult challenge to TEMs, as they struggle to evolve traditional DSP-centric channel cards to meet a new set of technical and commercial challenges.
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Designing a Wireless Heart Rate Monitor with Remote Data Logging
Important improvements in Human-to-Machine Interface (HMI) functionality have been made possible by continuing advancements in Machine-to-Machine interfaces in terms of increased baud rate, low power consumption and reach (distance) of communication.
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Build Agility through Wireless Networks Designed Right
Designing a wireless data network without fully accounting for the mix of applications, the types of client devices and number of users risks reduced performance.
By Dr. Roger Skidmore, Motorola
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State-of-the-Art IC: Transmitter in Ultrasound Devices
The medical imaging field is benefiting greatly from research and development in applied physics and electronics, especially in areas such as instrumentation, image acquisition and modeling.
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Simultaneous Multimode RRH Design Made Easy
The diverse modulation formats and sampling rates between standards such as MC-GSM, WCDMA, and LTE make designing common building blocks, including digital upconverters (DUCs) and digital downconverters (DDCs), challenging.
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Next-Generation Wireless Sensing is Moving Forward
Consider the gaming industry and you will find motion sensing at the forefront. The leading gaming platform today (and subsequent aftermarket equivalents) consists of a wireless sensing handheld remote.
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Electronic Packaging RF SiPs Demand Early Packaging Focus
Wireless technologies have evolved swiftly over the past two decades. What were once large RF/microwave modules and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) have become miniaturized, multi-function systems.
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Designing Handsets with Modularity
ith worldwide shipments of 990 million units in 2006 and in excess of 1.1 billion units in 2007 (source: iSuppli), mobile handsets have rapidly become the most dominant consumer electronics device in the market today.
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Low Cost FPGA-Based HD/SD SDI Transceivers
As the explosion of HDTV, IPTV, VoD and YouTube downloads continues, together with the increased capabilities and falling prices of FPGAs, it is inevitable that the two technologies will intertwine.
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F-RAM Moves to Automotive Infotainment Applications
The use of non-volatile ferroelectric RAM (F-RAM) in automotive applications began with airbag applications. This type of safety critical application was particularly well suited to F-RAM's high endurance.
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Using Next-Generation Non-Stationary Noise Suppression to Enhance Voice Quality
Higher voice quality in noisy environments through next-generation noise suppression technology is proving to be one of the key differentiators for handset manufacturers and service providers.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today introduced its latest wireless universal serial bus (USB) solution, developed using Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology.
Microsemi Corporation’s Power and Microelectronics Group now offers a high-density Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND solid state storage solution in a single integrated plastic ball grid array (PBGA) package.
The HFS-2500 from EM Research operates over 2000 to 2500 MHz for advanced Electronic Warfare applications.
