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  • Dec. 6, 2012
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    A Wireless-Power Struggle 3

    A number of standards and technologies have arisen around wireless charging, making the technology a certainty for the future....More
  • Nov. 29, 2012
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    EuMW Amsterdam Delivers On New Technology 5

    European Editors Sally Ward-Foxton and Paul Whytock report their findings from the 15th Annual European Microwave Week....More
  • Nov. 12, 2012
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    Lean A Little Less On That Computer

    Design engineers rely on modern CAE software tools to create new circuits, even though they may have the capabilities to create effectively without the software help....More
  • Oct. 5, 2012
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    Cities Seek Sustainability

    Energy-efficient homes are becoming more commonplace, thanks to affordable energy-conserving light bulbs and appliances. With the advent of products like the Nest “smart” thermostat, they also are conserving energy more intelligently....More
  • Sep. 20, 2012
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    Memory Infusion Allows Chip To Further RFID’s Reach 10

    Langen, Germany: RF identification (RFID) has been a major success for the wireless industry, helping manufacturers keep track of parts and products in a multitude of markets. Now, RFID may have the capacity to expand its scope by invading new markets....More
  • Sep. 11, 2012
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    From Battlefield To Supermarket

    Warfare has long been a motivational force behind the development of new technology. As the Allied and Axis forces battled during World War II, each side sought to improve the reliability and accuracy of their new technological weapon (radar) for any advantage in detecting the presence of an adversary....More
  • Aug. 27, 2012
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    When Will 4G Make The Great VoLTE Leap Forward? 1

    For all of the hype surrounding Long-Term-Evolution (LTE), it has one inherent flaw: the inability to support voice communication. Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) technology is attempting to solve that problem....More
  • Aug. 9, 2012
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    HetNet Solutions Advance While Femtocell Transceivers Cut Design Costs 1

    Increased coverage and operating capacity are sorely needed if future cellular networks are to provide adequate service. With more than one billion mobile-broadband users worldwide, heterogeneous-network (HetNet) technology is progressing rapidly to meet that goal. HetNet will provide substantial numbers of macro-networks and a large number of small cells, including femtocells. In the past, large cells encountered problems when they handled large numbers of users, which reduced the operating capacity per customer....More
  • Aug. 9, 2012
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    Drones Stir Controversy 2

    Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have provided a nice boon to the microwave and RF market. By using technologies ranging from Global Positioning System (GPS) location to wireless communications, they have offered new business opportunities....More
  • Jul. 11, 2012
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    Wireless SoCs Use Cortex-M0 Core To Slash Power Consumption 1

    For more than a decade, designers of wireless products have been struggling to deliver ever-increasing performance while consuming less power. Among the latest products promising to satisfy these opposing demands are two wireless system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices from Nordic Semiconductor (www.nordicsemi.com). Conveniently, the first two low-power wireless SoCs in the nRF51 series share the same architecture and multi-protocol radio. While the nRF51822 has a Bluetooth-low-energy/proprietary 2.4-GHz stack, the nRF51422 has an ANT/ANT+ stack (see p. 42 for more on ANT)....More
  • Jul. 11, 2012
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    Grappling With Old-Cell-Phone Guilt

    A few days ago, my six-year-old daughter was rifling through our junk drawer. She was delighted to discover a number of old cell phones, which she promptly used to “call” her ex-boyfriend—supposedly a boy named Jake. (I guess when you’re six, it’s okay for an ex to come before an actual boyfriend.) While it was fun watching her play, it reminded me—guiltily—that my family still had not recycled our old cell phones....More
  • Jun. 13, 2012
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    Making More With Less

    Owing almost $16 trillion dollars can make even the most free-spending of governments more fiscally responsible. The Pentagon has been the beneficiary of 10 continuous years of military budget increases. But with planning for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 ......More
  • Jun. 13, 2012
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    Test And Chip Breakthroughs Create Smaller, Faster, More Dependable Consumer Products

    Wireless consumer-electronic products increasingly include data-intensive applications. Meanwhile, applications below 10 GHzsuch as wireless local-area networking (WLAN)face spectrum scarcity. Consequently, wireless-system designers have to explore ......More
  • May 17, 2012
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    Montreal Not Ideal For All Exhibitors

    Midway through every year, this industry celebrates its heritage with a big gathering of its leading companies and people. Such a get-together offers the opportunity to see how competitors are faring, to learn about newcomers, and to catch up with old ......More
  • Apr. 6, 2012
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    Hearing Aids Embrace Wireless Solutions 1

    In other Nordic news, hearing solutions company GN ReSound, has employed the company’s nRF24L01+ in its ReSound Alera™ hearing aid. This offering enables users to wirelessly stream audio from consumer electronics devices such as TVs directly to their hearing aid(s) over a range to 20 m (see figure)....More
  • Apr. 6, 2012
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    Smart Remotes Take A Step Forward

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  • Apr. 6, 2012
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    Tracking Oscillator Trends

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  • Mar. 14, 2012
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    Get The Measure of LTE Device Radiated Spurious Emissions-Fast

    The R&S OSP-B155 option from Rohde & Schwarz simplifies the measurement of radiated spurious emissions on LTE devices. Radiated emissions can be a problem with some wireless designs, especially when the levels of those emissions are ......More
  • Mar. 14, 2012
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    LTE Chipset Development

    Still on the subject of Long Term Evolution, Sequans Communications, a 4G chipmaker, is using Rohde & Schwarz test equipment to align its next-generation LTE chipsets. The test solution is built around the R&S CMW500 radio communication tester and is ......More
  • Mar. 14, 2012
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    Taking An Active Role In Passive Component Design

    Passive components were once taken for granted in a system design, with their contributions at the system level usually considered predictable. Even at their best, passive components like power dividers or couplers could only diminish the magnitude ......More
  • Feb. 16, 2012
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    Graphene May Hold The Key To Future THz Applications

    This schematic diagram shows a graphene-based subharmonic FET mixer. LO and RF signals are fed to the gate and drain terminals, respectively, while the intermediate-frequency (IF) signal is extracted from the drain terminal. ......More
  • Feb. 16, 2012
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    Is GaN Really The Future?

    During a lifetime in the RF/microwave industry, one gets to see a great deal of change. Take silicon-bipolar-transistor amplifiers: When they first started to replace vacuum-tube power amplifiers some three decades ago, tubes were replaced in ......More
  • Jan. 25, 2012
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    Look For Positive Changes

    Nancy K. Friedrich Editor-in-Chief Counterfeit parts. Factories in poor countries, where wages are minimal and working conditions are terrible. Nefarious customers, who may be working to acquire technology for harmful end goals like ......More
  • Jan. 25, 2012
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    Company Profiles

    Toumaz develops wireless technologies for a range of markets including medical monitoring and Internet-connected consumer devices. The company's licensable smart-sensor interface and transceiver platform, Sensium, is used in the real-time wireless ......More
  • Dec. 16, 2011
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    Of Memory And Growth

    Jack Browne Technical Contributor How does one properly summarize 50 years of publication for one magazine? Over the past 12 months, Microwaves & RF readers have shared their thoughts with us on this industry's history. In visits to industry ......More

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