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April 2011
16-bit DAC Slashes Power Consumption 65 percent, Increases Speed 25 Percent
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today introduced the industry’s most power-efficient 4-channel, 16-bit DAC (digital-to-analog converter). At 1.25 GSPS, the DAC3484 is 25 percent faster than the next fastest quad DAC while consuming as little as 250 mW per channel – 65 percent less than the closest competitor.
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February 2011
Drop-In Replacement for SLA Batteries
Micro Power announces IronWorks™, a patent pending Iron Phosphate battery solution, which serves as a drop-in replacement for Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) batteries. Manufacturers of mobile equipment can now achieve lighter weight, longer runtime, faster charge time and longer cycle life with this new standard U1 format battery.
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December 2010
12-bit, 8-channel, I2C-interface DAC Targets Multi-Channel, High-Density Applications
Texas Instruments Inc. recently introduced a 12-bit, 8-channel digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with I2C interface for multi-channel, high-density applications, such as power amplifier control in wireless base stations, portable instrumentation, data acquisition systems and laser bias control.
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October 2010
Eight-Channel Transmit/Receive Chipset for Portable Ultrasound Systems
National Semiconductor Corporation has unveiled an eight-channel ultrasound transmit/receive chipset specifically designed for portable ultrasound systems used in hospitals, clinics, ambulances and remote point-of-care facilities.
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August 2010
Wireless Remote Control on a Chip
Silicon Laboratories Inc. recently introduced an EZRadio® wireless IC solution designed to reduce the cost and complexity of one-way wireless links used in a wide range of consumer, industrial and automotive systems.
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June 2010
180 nm Ultra CMOS Process
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation has entered in an exclusive agreement with IBM for the development and manufacture of future generations of Peregrine’s patented UltraCMOS™ silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process technology, the industry’s highest-performance radio frequency complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (RF CMOS) process.
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April 2010
DSP Offers Next-Generation Acceleration
DSP based on StarCore technology
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February 2010
Modules Simplify Power Supply Design for FPGAs
National Semiconductor Corporation has released the first three products in its SIMPLE SWITCHER® power module family. The LMZ-series of power modules provide an innovative, integrated solution that will save design time
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December 2009
A/D Converter Provides Twice the Sample Rate for Wireless Communications
Texas Instruments unveils industry's first 12-bit, 1-GSPS ADC with buffered input, simplifying analog front-end design in wide-bandwidth applications.
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October 2009
View RF Signals in Real Time
Tektronix, Inc. has expanded the RSA6000 series to include the RSA6120A spectrum analyzer, which extends all of the advanced capabilities of the RSA6000 Series out to 20 GHz, allowing designers to apply the spectrum analyzer's market-leading capabilities throughout the entire Ku band.
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August 2009
Multi-Primary Technology Reduces Power and Improves Color
Genoa Pixcale™ reduces power consumption by 40% for Smartphone displays while improving color quality.
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June 2009
NFC Controller Delivers Fully-Compliant Platform
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, has unveiled a truly industry-standard Near Field Communication (NFC) controller, delivering a fully compliant platform for handset manufacturers and operators to introduce next-generation NFC devices and services.
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May 2009
MCU Family Achieves 20 nA Sleep Currents
Microchip Technology offers the PIC24F16KA family of 16-bit microcontrollers with new nanoWatt XLP™ eXtreme Low Power Technology
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April 2009
SDR Solution for GSM/EDGE Basestations
Octasic Inc., a developer of media processing and wireless solutions, has made available a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform for GSM, EDGE and EDGE Evolution Base Transceiver Station (BTS) applications
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March 2009
Low-Power, High-Value FPGA Devices
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has released its third-generation high-value FPGAs, the mid-range 65 nm LatticeECP3™ family.
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February 2009
FIR Filter with Integrated Gain and Compression
Quickfilter Technologies Inc. has developed an audio applications-specific FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter chip that will enable audio equipment designers to achieve higher audio quality at a low cost.
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January 2009
System Achieves Rare Security Certification
Green Hills Software, Inc.'s INTEGRITY®-178B operating system has been certified by the National Information Assurance P to Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 6+, High Robustness.
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December 2008
Σ Δ A/D Converters Fill the Gap
ADI's new converter family optimizes bandwidth and resolution to deliver the industry's best combination of operating frequency, dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio.
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November 2008
MEMS Microphones Make the Grade
Despite the proliferation of electronics devices that integrate voice, music, and video, the quality of sound produced by these handheld electronics has not lived up to consumer expectations.
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October 2008
Oscillators Replace Crystal with Silicon
Silicon Laboratories’ Si500 family of 100 percent CMOS oscillators offer a replacement for crystal oscillators (XOs). The devices offer a selection of differential and single-ended clock formats, 1.5 ps rms phase jitter, 2 ps rms maximum period jitter and core power of 8 mA.
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September 2008
8.6 Version Meets Parallel Programming Challenge
National Instruments’ LabVIEW 8.6 is the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development.
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August 2008
RFIC Measures Peak to Average Power Ratio
Hittite Microwave’s HMC614LP4E RMS Power Detector is designed for RF power measurement, and control applications for frequencies up to 3.9 GHz. The detector provides a “true RMS” representation of any RF/IF input signal.
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July 2008
GPS Receiver IC Features Dual Antenna
SiGe Semiconductor, Inc.'s 4-mm 2 SE4150L GPS radio receiver features dual-antenna input capability and a multi-bit output to help with sensivity and interference resistance for next-generation GPS systems.
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June 2008
Is it Real or a Digital Replica?
New wireless networks are being designed with a wide variety of goals in mind, such as improving worker productivity, delivering mission critical information to troops in combat, or just enhancing mobile lifestyles.
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May 2008
PCB Design Cycle Time Cut in Half
Mentor Graphics Corporation and Agilent Technologies Inc. have jointly developed solution that can significantly improve productivity for the design of RF circuits on printed circuit boards.
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March 2008
Oscilloscope Breaks Samples Barrier
Agilent’s Infiniium 90000A Series provides superior signal integrity, deep application analysis and better insight.
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February 2008
Wisair’s Dongle Set Doubles the Speed and Halves the Price of Wireless USB
Wisair, a leading provider of Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) chipset solutions, today announced a new Wireless USB host and device dongle set that delivers high-speed wireless connectivity to a range of USB devices such as printers, hubs, or external hard disk drives (HDD).
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January 2008
Address Increasing Complex Chip Design
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. recently announced that fundamental new technologies have been integrated into the Cadence® Incisive® Enterprise verification family.
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December 2007
RF MEMS Switch Responds to the Call
Omron Electronic Components LLC is responding to the demand to incorporate an increasing number of advanced functions in mobile phones that are becoming more and more compact in design.
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November 2007
Simply Test Setups and Reduce Cost
Rohde & Schwarz announces an "all-in-one" solution for WiMAX mobile station and customer premise equipment testing in compliance with the 802.16e-2005 standard and the WiMAX Forum Mobile System Profiles.
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October 2007
Kit Makes Designing Medical Telemetry Systems a Snap!
Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. has made available a development kit that enables faster design and evaluation of wireless telemetry systems linking implanted medical devices with monitoring and programming equipment.
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September 2007
Simplify Multicore and FPGA-based Application Development
National Instruments’ LabVIEW 8.5 simplifies multicore as well as FPGA-based application development with its intuitive parallel dataflow language.
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August 2007
Simplify Debug and Conformance Test
Tektronix, Inc.’s RFXpress™ is an advanced software package that performs RF/IF/IQ waveform creation and editing of digitally modulated signals for AWG5000 and AWG7000 arbitrary waveform generators.
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July 2007
Microcontrollers Outperform FPGAs
Customizable License-free ARM7- and ARM9- MCUs cut power consumption and costs by 30% to 60%.
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June 2007
Single Chip Polar HEDGE RF Transceiver
Sequoia Communications, the RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks in multi-mode design and integration, today announced the release of SEQ7400, the industry’s first single-chip, polar transmit, seven-band, HEDGE (HSDPA/WCDMA and EDGE/GPRS/GSM) RF transceiver based on their patented FullSpectra™ architecture.
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May 2007
Platform in Package
Ultra-low-power wireless platform designed to enable up to 20 year battery life and features up to 2 Mb/s TurboLink™ technology performance.
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March 2007
Designers Can Quickly Dial-in Performance
National Semiconductor Corporation announces the addition of six high-frequency buck regulators to its SIMPLE SWITCHER® product family along with a "dial-in performance" enhancement to its WEBENCH® design environment. The six new regulators feature a unique combination of high performance, flexibility and ease-of-use for DC/DC power supply designs.
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February 2007
GIC Launches Next Generation Embedded Non-Volatile Memory
To support the low cost and high performance requirements of today’s consumer and secure applications, Virage Logic, a pioneer in Silicon Aware IP™ and leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) platforms, introduced its next generation embedded non-volatile product — NOVeA.
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October 2006
Security for RFID Tags
SecureRF Corporation’s RFID tag device is based on a cryptography that is both
lightweight and highly secure. Until now, existing security algorithms could not
provide strong authentication and data protection on RFID tags.
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September 2006
LabVIEW 8.20 Targets Communications Test
National Instruments has released LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform for test, control and embedded system design development. This new version extends the LabVIEW graphical programming platform with communications design, simulation and test tools specifically tailored to the needs of telecom design and test engineers.
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August 2006
RF SiP Methodology Kit
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has released a complete set of EDA products and capabilities that enable the mainstreaming of System-in-Packaging (SiP) IC design.
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April 2005
Biometric Fingerprint Sensor
AuthenTec introduces the EntréPad 1510 — a small, powerful, and versatile biometric fingerprint sensor, which combines high level security with a host of touch-powered features and functions for cell phones.
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September 2004
Circuit Simulator for RF, Analog, and Mixed-Signal
Nexxim is Ansoft's new circuit simulator that provides fast and accurate solutions for tough analog and mixed-signal circuits.
It provides the transistor-level simulation accuracy required for sensitive analog and wireless front-end circuits and the capacity to solve the complexities in modern mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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May 2003
2002 Technology Award Winners
In the past year, Wireless Design & Development® has featured more than 1,500 products that address virtually every application and aspect of the wireless industry: Bluetooth, wireless local area network, cellular and PCS, wireless local loop, LMDS/MMDS, fixed wireless, testing, security, next generation design, software — the list seems endless.
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3D Simulation Software
CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® version 4 has over 1200 new features, options and improvements. Significant among these new features are Thin Sheet Technique (TST) for thin metallic structures; faster optimization based on a new algorithm; frequency dependent and ferrite materials; selective and simultaneous excitation of ports and modes; template assisted problem definition; further data exchange option: STEP, Pro/E®, Catia®, DXF export; enhanced EMC capabilities; advanced de-embedding; and full symmetry detection.
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All-Inclusive Radio Module
The HRF-ROC0935XM is ideal for battery powered wireless applications in digital data communications. The module includes a half-duplex Radio On a Chip 900 MHz transceiver integrated with an antenna switch, LNA, Xtal and all RF passives in a 23 × 23 mm shielded package.
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Bluetooth Modules for WPAN
National Semiconductor introduced the LMX9814 Bluetooth™ WPAN (wireless personal area network) module to enable Class 2/3 Bluetooth connectivity in today's portable communications and computing devices.
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Liquid Crystalline Polymer Materials
Rogers introduces the first of its new ZYVEX™ liquid crystalline polymer circuit materials for high performance electronics where high frequency, chemical resistance, and fine line high density interconnect (HDI) requirements are critical.
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Lithium Battery Protection Module
The Panther Lithium-Battery Protection Module is for use in Li-ion and Li-polymer single-cell applications. The miniature module improves the operating life of one-cell rechargeable battery packs. It provides complete lithium-battery protection with no external components.
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Low Cost Spectrum Analyzer
SA3000 is a compact, cost-effective, PC-based instrument covering the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The device identifies optimal locations for wireless equipment and alerts installers to potential interference.
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LTCC Chip Antenna
Johanson Technology announces a new high frequency chip antenna for Bluetooth, WLAN and 2.45 GHz ISM band applications. This LTCC based device boasts typical gain figures of 3.0 dBi peak and 1.0 dBi average, while return loss is kept to 9.
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Mini-Coaxial Connector
The AYU-1 Series has a mounting area of 3 × 3 mm on PCB and 2 mm height when mated with applicable cable plug resulting in space savings. Designed for applications operating from DC to 3 GHz, these SMT connectors are ideal for high density telecommunications equipment such as cellular phones, PDAs, and wireless data collection devices.
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RF MEMS Switches
This device is an ultra low loss, DC to 6 GHz RF MEMS single pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch. Frequency response is 300 kHz RF to 6 GHz. It possesses a high linearity, IP3 >65 dBm. With insensitivity to magnetic fields, it exhibits a low loss of 0.
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Temperature Compensated RF Power Detectors
Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC5505-1 and LTC5505-2 RF power detectors in ThinSOT™ packages with >40 dB dynamic range for 300 MHz to 3 GHz applications. Each requires 60% of the PCB space needed by a discrete design, consumes 9 times less supply current, and compared to integrated solutions, minimizes system design iteration with the factory guaranteed precision RF parameter limits and temperature compensated performance.
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April 2002
AeroComm
AeroComm was awarded a 2001 Technology Award during The Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo for the ConnexRF ™ transceiver (PKLR 200 mW). The transceiver contains powerful software for implementing a variety of network configurations, including network configurations (point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, etc.
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Alpha Industries
Alpha Industries received a 2001 Technology Award at The Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo. Alpha's family of four Broadband HBT amplifiers (GBH112, GBH114, GBH120, GBH121) find applications in the broadband and wireless access markets.
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Anritsu Company
Anritsu Company was presented with the 2001 Technology Award for the ME7840A Power Amplifier Test System at The Wireless System Design Conference & Expo. The ME7840A allows the user to conduct ACPR, IMD, PAE, compression, harmonics and S-parameter measurements with a single connection.
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Antenna Specialists
Antenna Specialists is the recipient of a 2001 Technology Award for the ASPD1860TGPS and ASPD914TGPS cellular/GPS dual-system antennas. These antennas cover the 824 - 894 MHz cellular and the 1575.42 ± 5 MHz GPS frequency range.
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BP Microsystems
BP Microsystems is the recipient of a 2001 Technology Award. The BP-1600 Universal Engineering Programmer supports virtually every device technology — including EPROM, EEPROM, Flash, Microcontrollers, PLD, CPLD, FPGA and anti-fuse FPGA's.
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Celerity Digital Broadband Test
Celerity Digital Broadband Test was recently presented with a 2001 Technology Award at the Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo. The CS20310B Bluetooth RF Test set analyzes and generates Bluetooth signals over the full 83.
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Centurion Wireless Technologies
Centurion Technologies was presented a 2001 Technology Award at The Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo. The BlueChip™ antenna and the MicroBlue antennas cover the frequency range from 2.
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Chipcon AS
Recently at The Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo, Chipcon AS was presented with a 2001 Technology Award. The CC1000 Low Power CMOS RF Transceiver is designed for very low voltage wireless applications and is ideal for battery applications using single Lithium 3.
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Ericsson Microelectronics
The PBA 313 04 is a recipient of a 2001 Technology Award . The PBA 313 04 Bluetooth Radio Solution, which utilizing a BiCMOS ASIC, forms a complete radio, and helps manufactures to reduce time-to-market for CDMA mobile phones using Bluetooth wireless technology.
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Numa Technologies
A 2001 Technology Award was recently presented to Numa Technologies at The Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo for the NT2904 Chip-Ceiver™. The device is a fully integrated, single-chip, FM/FSK transceiver and utilizes a unique, direct-conversion, Zero-IF architecture.
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Radiotronix
Radiotronix is the recipient of a 2001 Technology Award for the EWM-900-FDTC full-duplex ISM band transceiver. This transceiver is capable of audio and data communications and operates in the 902 - 928 MHz unlicensed frequency band.
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RF Micro Devices
RF Micro Devices' RF2472 SiGe Low Noise Amplifier for use in Bluetooth and cellular phone applications, received a 2001 Technology Award during The Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo.
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Silicon Laboratories
Silicon Laboratories is the recipient of a 2001 Technology Award. The Aero™ GSM transceiver chipset provides a complete RF front end for dual and triple band GSM digital cellular handsets.
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Spacek Labs
Spacek Labs was recently presented with a 2001 Technology Award at their Santa Barbara, CA office. Model no. MM25-6LNA is an integrated receiver that includes a LNA, mixer and LO doubler-amp. The receiver can be used for narrowband LMDS or full-band multi-channel radiometer applications.
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Spectrum Control
Spectrum Control is the recipient of a 2001 Technology Award. The company's patch antenna elements incorporate small size and high frequency and are ideal for GPS receivers, navigation systems, aviation, marine and surveying equipment, WLANs and Bluetooth.
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UltraRF
A 2001 Technology Award was presented to UltraRF at The Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo for the UPF18060 LDMOS RF Power Transistors. The UPF18060 transistors achieve high performance at a low cost, and are ideally suited for CDMA, TDMA, GSM and multi-carrier power amplifiers in Class A or Class AB operation.
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Z-Communications
Z-Communications is a recipient of a 2001 Technology Award. The SMV0978L VCO is intended for the ISM band. The device generates frequencies between 975 and 995 MHz within 0.5 - 2.5 V DC of control voltage.
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April 2001
Bluetooth PA for 2.4 GHz ISM Band
The PA2423 is a monolithic SiGe (Silicon-Germanium) high efficiency power amplifier for the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The PA boosts class II Bluetooth radios to power class I, 100 m range applications. It delivers 23.
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Complete Software Radio Solution
Pentek, Inc. has announced one of the first digital upconverter and D/A VIM-2 (Velocity Interface Mezzanine) modules in the industry, allowing engineers to generate wideband analog IF signals in real time right from a DSP.
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Dual-Band RF Synthesizer
Silicon Laboratories has announced the Si4133G Dual-Band RF Synthesizer featuring settling times under 150 μs and support of the General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) requirements for GSM/DCS1800 mobile phones, enabling wireless data transfer rates that are equivalent to a V.
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Embedded "Wireless Cable"
RangeStar's new V-Pol Omni antenna will make it easy and cost-effective to embed a Bluetooth antenna into any consumer electronics device, including wireless phones, printers, laptop computers and handheld organizers.
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Frequency Hopping Wireless OEM Modules
Cirronet™ announced the WIT2410, the latest in its line of frequency hopping spread spectrum wireless modems for use in the 2.4 GHz band. The device offers lower cost as well as significant enhancements over its WIT2400 predecessor, including seamless roaming capabilities and a doubled air data rate of 460 kbps.
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GPS Antennas
MAXRAD introduces a new GPS antenna series specially designed to provide higher gain and versatility to their users. The new and improved active GPS (AGPS) will supersede other GPS antenna lines previously supplied by the company.
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High Frequency Active Filter
Murata Electronics announced its exclusive offering of the High Frequency (HF) Active Filter, a leaded surface mounted device that creates a higher performance filtering solution for use in next-generation electronics products.
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Hybrid Coupler
Anaren Microwave, a manufacturer of microwave signal distribution networks and wireless components, has introduced the Xinger® 2A1306-3 surface mount 3 dB hybrid coupler for use in high-power applications within a broad 1.
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Logarithmic Amplifier
The AD8310 is Analog Device's logarithmic amplifier (log amp) that detects signals up to 440 MHz in 15 ns, making it well suited for pulse detection and amplitude-shift keying (ASK) modulated waveform demodulation applications such as automotive toll tags, cellular base stations and fiber optic networks.
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Logic Devices
The MC74VHC1GxxxDFT1 CMOS One-Gate logic devices, are single gate solutions derived from a multi-gate standard logic function. They are packaged in tiny 5-pin SOT-353 (SC-88A) and can fit almost anywhere on a circuit board.
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Millimeterwave Amplifier Family
The AB0228H1-14 and AB038H1-14 are high gain amplifiers designed for 23 - 30 GHz and 36 - 41 GHz, respectively. The AB028H1-14 features 36 dB gain, 16 dBm output power and 3 dB noise figure. The AB038H1-14 offers 30 dB gain, 16 dBm output power and 4 dB noise figure.
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MMDS Fixed Wireless Transceiver
The MMDS fixed wireless transceiver carries high-speed two-way data for fast Internet access, interactive video/voice and telephone. This unit is designed to accommodate Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) or other customer specified plans.
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Phase Noise PLL Family
Cypress Semiconductor introduces its Radio Frequency Phase Lock Loop (RF PLL) product family, featuring low phase noise floor, providing clearer voice and higher throughput for digital data transmission.
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Receiver ICs
TriQuint Semiconductor has unveiled its latest in a series of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) TDMA-mode monolithic receiver ICs. The TQ5122 cellular frequency band receiver and the TQ5622 PCS band frequency are complementary devices specifically designed for use in IS-136/TDMA handsets in both the U.
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RF Signal Sources
Nova Engineering's NovaSource is an excellent alternative for replacing expensive RF signal generators.
Nova Engineering's NovaSource programmable synthesized RF signal sources are designed to fill the void in the communications industry for small, low cost, and easy to use replacements for signal generators in applications where flexibility and accurate frequency generation is required.
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VCO with Low Current Draw
Trak Microwave has designed and developed a new VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) Model 10-802-4003 for wireless handheld radios that is available in dual band frequencies from 700 - 1600 MHz. This surface mount VCO has a very low current draw at 13 mA typical and phase noise at – 115 dBc typical at 10 kHz, resulting in improved adjacent channel rejectivity.
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WLAN Chipset
Intersil Corporation's PRISM II WLAN chipset, a highly integrated 11 Mbps "Antenna-to-Computer" solution for WLANs, is now in full production and available for sampling. The chipset is completely re-engineered from the original PRISM chipset, with 50 percent lower power consumption and a 35 percent reduction in total bill-of-materials cost for a WLAN card.
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