RF/IF Amplifiers and VGAs Cover The Entire Signal Chain
By Ashraf Elghamrawi, Analog Devices ( www.analog.com ) The amplifier is one of the most versatile building blocks used in RF/IF signal chains today. They are commonly used throughout designs to overcome signal losses incurred from passive mixers, filters, baluns, and other passive elements.
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RF/IF Amplifiers and VGAs Cover The Entire Signal Chain
By Ashraf Elghamrawi, Analog Devices ( www.analog.com ) The amplifier is one of the most versatile building blocks used in RF/IF signal chains today. They are commonly used throughout designs to overcome signal losses incurred from passive mixers, filters, baluns, and other passive elements.
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e-MMC Based Embedded Memory Architectures in Mobile Phones
By Scott Beekman, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
The growth of features available in mobile phones has both driven and been enabled by changes in NAND based memory architectures. As phone capabilities evolved, feature rich phones migrated from NOR-based solutions to NAND-based solutions.
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Critical Demands on Ruggedized Wireless Systems for Today and Tomorrow
By Gregory Powers, Tyco Electronics
Wireless systems are now fully mainstream in our lives, not only in the consumer world of cell phones, Wi-Fi enabled laptops and satellite television, but also in the mission and life critical world of aerospace and defense.
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Developing Mission Critical Products with Embedded Processors and Software
Mukesh Kumar, Texas Instruments
The military electronics industry, which includes mission critical products, has always had quality as its ultimate objective. It was a widely held belief that the military’s computers, communications systems and all things electronic had to be a step or two ahead of everyone else’s systems.
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Printed Displays offer New World of Design Opportunities
A new world of printed electronic display technology is evolving, offering unlimited opportunities for mass consumer and industrial applications. New flexible, printed displays are increasingly being integrated into a variety of everyday products including credit cards, product packaging, home-health diagnostics and even in apparel to combat theft and counterfeit.
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Next Generation Wireless IP Networking Applications
Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) provides security at the network layer of the protocol stack. By using IPSec, protection is offered to all IP packets regardless of the protocols and applications running in the upper layers of the protocol stack.
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LTE Femtocell Roadmap from Concept to Reality
The market is buzzing about the critical role of "small cells" in Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments – femtocells, picocells and microcells. LTE is the next generation 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard for mobile networks born out of the GSM family of cellular technology.
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Wireless Base Stations Benefit from Signal Compression
For deployments by a single operator, wireless repeater systems offer more cost effective fiber transport costs.
By Allan Evans, VP of Marketing, Samplify Systems
ABI Research predicts that revenues for distributed antenna systems and in-building wireless systems will exceed $15B by 2013.
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