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Aricent’s Intelligent Switching Solution Becomes More Advanced
May 16, 2013 6:13 pm | by The Aricent Group | News | CommentsThe Aricent Group has announced the addition of more timing and synchronization features to its award-winning routing and switching framework, Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS).With the proliferation of data-hungry smart devices in the market, service providers are turning to Ethernet technologies to provide simple...
Aricent Adds CAPWAP to its WLAN Solutions Portfolio
May 16, 2013 6:09 pm | by The Aricent Group | News | CommentsThe Aricent Group has announced the addition of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)-defined Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) software framework to its field-proven communications software and solutions portfolio. The software is available immediately.
Data Translation Announces New Data Acquisition Application Software
May 16, 2013 6:07 pm | by Data Translation, Inc. | News | CommentsData Translation, Inc. has announced a new software application, QuickDAQ 2013, that is available free and supports all of Data Translation data acquisition modules. Additionally, FFT Analysis and Advanced FFT Analysis add-ons are offered to build onto the capabilities of the base package.
Enabling Low Cost, Low Power Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
May 16, 2013 5:59 pm | by Deepak Boppana, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Lattice Semiconductor | Articles | CommentsDriven by the need to address the explosive growth in mobile data and video traffic, the wireless infrastructure market is rapidly evolving toward a new Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) architecture in which the traditional macro infrastructure is supplemented by a new class of low power nodes (LPNs) such as small cells, low power remote radio heads, and relays.
New World Record in Wireless Data Transmission
May 16, 2013 5:12 pm | by Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology | News | CommentsResearchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission.
Engineering Newswire 38: Lockheed Laser Shoots Down Drones
May 16, 2013 11:51 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by Interpower, the premier supplier of power system components for worldwide markets, we’re kicking turtles to make new shapes, enhancing our senses, printing on the Afinia 3D printer, and shooting down drones, with lasers.
Touchstone Semiconductor’s TS3300 Boost Regulator
May 16, 2013 11:49 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsTouchstone Semiconductor has announced the TS3300 boost regulator. The TS3300 uses only 3.5 µA of supply current, and the TS3300’s efficiency performance is constant over a 100:1 span in output current. Additional features include anti-crush, automatic start-up current limiting.
RFMW Introduces 400-Micron Discrete FET
May 16, 2013 11:48 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsRFMW, Ltd. announces a discrete 400-Micron GaAs pHEMT FET. Designed using TriQuint’s proven 0.25 um pHEMT process, power, and efficiency at high-drain bias operating conditions are optimized. The TriQuint TGF2040 allows self-biasing and eliminates the need for a negative supply voltage.
Maxim’s Bipolar SAR ADC
May 16, 2013 11:48 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsMaxim Integrated Products, Inc. [NASDAQ: MXIM] has announced that it is now shipping the MAX11156, a 12-pin, 18-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Available in a tiny 3 x 3 mm TDFN package, the MAX11156 integrates an internal reference and reference buffer, saving at least 70% board space over competing solutions.
Avago Technologies’ New Dual-Channel, Bi-Directional Optocoupler
May 16, 2013 11:48 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsAvago Technologies [Nasdaq:AVGO] has announced a new dual-channel, bi-directional 25 MBd digital optocoupler device, the ACSL-7210. The device is a dual-channel, high-speed digital optocoupler, optimized for bi-directional industrial communication networks.
Making Frequency-Hopping Radios Practical
May 16, 2013 10:13 am | by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | News | CommentsThe way in which radio spectrum is currently allocated to different wireless technologies can lead to gross inefficiencies. In some regions, for instance, the frequencies used by cellphones can be desperately congested, while large swaths of the broadcast-television spectrum stand idle.
GPS Satellite Launched into Space from Florida
May 16, 2013 10:05 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsA new GPS satellite has been launched into space. An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon. It was the fifth time since December that an unmanned Atlas V rocket has been launched. The GPS 2F-4 spacecraft will join a constellation of other satellites circling already orbiting 11,000 miles above Earth.
Ultra-Broadband Passives Enable Broadband Communications
May 16, 2013 10:02 am | by Edgardo Menendez, Field Applications Engineer, AVX | Articles | CommentsThe fiber optics market has experienced a significant increase in demand over the last decade, largely driven by the rise, availability, and affordability of sophisticated portable electronics, such as mobile phones, tablets, and laptops. These devices have accelerated global connectivity, simultaneously driving the need for a fast and reliable Internet infrastructure.
Google's Products Dig Deeper into People's Lives
May 16, 2013 9:48 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsThis year's event mostly consisted of upgrades to existing Google services that have already become daily habits for millions of people — one of Page's main goals. The new features assume most people want more help managing their lives from Google's brainy engineers and the sprawling data centers that house its millions of computers around the world.
Tech, Labor Spar on Immigration
May 16, 2013 9:41 am | by ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press | News | CommentsTo the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.
