RFIC Design Seminar Hits The Road
Designers of RF integrated circuits (RFICs) can improve their design skills and productivity by attending a one-day seminar that travels to their location. Sponsored by Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA), in collaboration with Cadence Design ...
Bluetooth Test Lab Opens In China
Centro de Tecnolognulla de las Comunicaciones S.A. (CETECOM) of Malaga, Spain, a leading provider of wireless test solutions, has been chosen by The State Radio Monitoring Center (SRMC) to supply Bluetooth conformance test solutions (BITE) in ...
Atmel Launches SiGe Power Amplifiers
Atmel Corp. (San Jose, CA) announced a line of power amplifiers based on silicon germanium (SiGe) at the recent Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo (San Diego, CA). Although long associated with small-signal devices, Atmel is among several ...
Infineon Cools Down LDMOS Transistors
A line of thermally-enhanced lateral-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) RF power transistors from Infineon Technologies (Morgan Hill, CA) exhibits 15 to 30 percent lower thermal resistance from the device junction to the case compared to ...
Thanks To Those Who Came
Wireless markets have yielded little excitement in recent years, due largely to the slowdown in cellular infrastructure sales and the "commoditization" of products for wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) systems. Still, the curious came this past ...
QUALCOMM's Founder Recognized For Wireless Contributions
Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of QUALCOMM, Inc. (San Diego, CA), has been named this year's industry leader by the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Jacobs, who founded the company in 1985 (and was the first Keynote ...
Fujitsu Offers PLL At Wireless Show
Fujitsu Microelectronics America (Sunnyvale, CA) introduced three single-serial-input phase-locked-loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers at the recent Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo (San Jose, CA). Designed for wireless applications, the ...
Highpass Filters Cut Off 0.6 To 3.0 GHz
These ceramic highpass filters offer cost-effective, drop-in solutions for a variety of applications requiring attenuation of signals below a given cutoff frequency.
ADCs Clear Way To Digital Receivers
The ever-improving balance of bandwidth, resolution, and power consumption are making modern analog-to-digital converters an essential component in high-frequency systems.
CMOS Power Amp Drives Dual GSM Bands
A clever distributed circuit design helps overcome the power limitations of conventional silicon CMOS processing in providing high GSM handset power levels with generous efficiency.
TI, The MathWorks Team on DSP Development Tool
Software supplier The MathWorks (Natick, MA) and leading digital-signal-processor (DSP) supplier Texas Instruments (Houston, TX) announced the availability of a development platform called Embedded Target for the TMS320C2000 family of DSPs. The ...
Wireless Conference and Expo Highlights Key Technologies
Entering its 12th year, the Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo, scheduled for March 8-10, 2004 in the San Diego Convention Center, offers a three-day snapshot of the latest developments in wireless technologies and applications. For example, ...
SkyeTek Announces World's Smallest RFID Reader
Radio-frequency-identification (RFID) tags have become ubiquitous in consumer, medical, industrial, and even military applications. In support of the technology, SkyeTek, Inc. (Boulder, CO) recently developed the world's smallest RFID reader, the ...
