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Ultra-Broadband Passives Enable Broadband Communications
May 16, 2013 | by Edgardo Menendez, Field Applications Engineer, AVX | Comments
The 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.
Touchscreen Requirements for Human Machine Interface in Industrial Automation
April 22, 2013 11:43 am | by Vikas Dhurka, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cypress Semiconductor | Comments
The Human Machine Interface (HMI) in industrial automation is quickly transitioning to...
Optimizing Real-Time Application Software for Small Cells
February 1, 2013 4:06 pm | by Sridhar K V, Radisys | Comments
Operators are looking to deploy small cell technologies as quickly as possible to generate...
LTE and the Role of Femtocells
December 14, 2010 8:30 am | CommentsBy picoChip and Continuous Computing LTE is coming. It’s almost impossible now to pick up an...
Opening the Door to Smart Battery Design
May 22, 2013 10:49 am | by Robert Rozario, Application Engineering Manager, Infineon Technologies | CommentsThe worldwide transition to ever smarter mobile devices, including phones or connected tablets, has obliterated the line that once existed between phones and computing devices. Today’s multitasking devices enable work, finance, entertainment and social interaction on the go like never before.
The LTE Mobile Experience: Measuring and Improving It
May 20, 2013 5:07 pm | by ARDESHIR GHANBARZADEH, Manager, Product Management, Spirent | CommentsOver the last several years, the rise of the smartphone in the wireless market has led to substantially increased capabilities in mobile devices. The emergence of an applications ecosystem for these platforms has enabled an almost limitless number of ways for consumers and enterprise users to interact with people, systems and businesses. Supporting much more than telephony, today’s smartphones function as a digital appendage...
The Drones of Oil
May 17, 2013 9:09 am | by Kim Andreassen, Centre for integrated petroleum research, University of Bergen (UiB), Uni Research | CommentsGeologists have long used seismology on the bottom of the ocean or have been throwing dynamite from snowmobiles when they look for oil. But now researchers at Centre for integrated petroleum research (CIPR), a joint venture between the University of Bergen (UiB) and Uni Research, have found a new preferred method – using drones to map new oil reserves from the air.
Enabling Low Cost, Low Power Wireless Heterogeneous Networks
May 16, 2013 5:59 pm | by Deepak Boppana, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Lattice Semiconductor | 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.
Far-Field Voice Input Processing
May 13, 2013 5:15 pm | by Meaghan Ziemba, Editor, WDD | CommentsPast attempts of providing this functionality have not been successful due to the difficulty with far-field voice input processing (FFVIP). When a microphone is close to the mouth of the individual talking, the quality of the audio tends to be better and louder than the surrounding noise.
UniSA Satellite System Sends Data for a Song
May 6, 2013 3:24 pm | by University of South Australia (UniSA) | CommentsA new communications system being trialed at the University of South Australia (UniSA) could radically lower the cost of using satellites to send and receive sensor information collected in Australia’s vast unpopulated areas.
Cyberthreats Must Require Governments & Businesses to be ‘Cyberrisk Intelligent’
May 3, 2013 9:42 am | by Jeff Falk, Chris Bronk, Rice University | CommentsIn an age where cybersecurity is of foremost interest for governments and businesses, public and private organizations must deploy risk-intelligence governance to secure their digital communications and resources from eavesdropping, theft or attack, according to a new paper from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Bringing NFC to the Masses through Efficiency and Simplicity
May 2, 2013 11:26 am | by Neeraj Bhatia, product manager, Qualcomm Atheros | CommentsIt’s no secret that Near Field Communication (NFC) is becoming a key feature in today’s flagship mobile devices. This year the industry has already seen the high-profile Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, and BlackBerry Z10 launches incorporate NFC technology. According to ABI Research, nearly 2 billion NFC-enabled devices...
Nanowires Grown on Graphene Have Surprising Structure
April 24, 2013 9:30 am | by Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor | CommentsThe self-assembled wires have a core of one composition and an outer layer of another, a desired trait for many advanced electronics applications. Led by professor Xiuling Li, in collaboration with professors Eric Pop and Joseph Lyding, all professors of electrical and computer...
Brainstorm: RF Signal Interference
April 23, 2013 3:38 pm | by WDD Staff | CommentsThe cellular basestation industry has dealt rather successfully in mitigating RF signal interference through thoughtful radio system knowledge, cell planning, and appropriately applied standards specifications. Interference -- in-band or out-of-band...
Drop Tag: Keeping Tabs on Parcels
April 23, 2013 9:27 am | by Meaghan Ziemba, Editor, WDD | CommentsWe all get a little nervous mailing out packages that have “FRAGILE” written Stamped on the side; keeping our fingers crossed that the contents won’t get damaged, squished, or broken during their transit to point B. MA-based Cambridge Consultants now offers a solution to help calm our nerves...
Germanium Made Compatible
April 22, 2013 10:44 am | by Maja Schaffner, ETH Zurich | CommentsResearchers from ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Politecnico di Milano have jointly developed a manufacturing technique to render the semiconductor germanium laser-compatible through high tensile strain. In their paper recently published in Nature Photonics...
Challenges with Microcell Deployment & Configuration
April 19, 2013 10:11 am | by Sinisa Peric, Chief R&D Engineer, QRC Technologies and Thomas Callahan, GM & CTO, QRC Technologies | CommentsWith cellular phones becoming not just voice, but now also data appliances, there is a growing need for operators to provide wide area (3-5 mile) coverage that assures high-rate data and voice services in nearly every location. What used to be considered “acceptable” gaps in coverage, like isolated homes...
M2M Combo Chip: In the Driver’s Seat for Reducing Cost in Automation Industry
April 18, 2013 9:52 am | by Satish Melukadavan, Vice President, Product Design, Redpine Signals Inc., M2MCombo, M2M communications, machine-to-machine communications, M2M cloud applications, automation industry | CommentsThe era of the Internet began in 1980s by networking organizations like the military, government agencies, corporate, and universities. If we talk to any user from that time, they wouldn’t have the slightest clue of what the future of this technology would be.
Security, Speed Driving WSN Needs
April 16, 2013 2:16 pm | by Jeff Reinke, Editorial Director, WDD | CommentsWhen it comes to new applications and overall potential for a given technology, not much rivals the integration of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Reader feedback regarding new WSN applications, trends, and obstacles essentially provided a snapshot of the wireless design marketplace as a whole...
