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  • Nov. 9, 2010
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    Terahertz CMOS ICs Become Feasible

    Silicon technology now offers a path to both capable and economical systems operating at 200 GHz and beyond. This option has arisen because of recent progress in complementary-metaloxide- semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits and ......More
  • Nov. 9, 2010
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    Project Targets Heterogeneous SoC Solutions

    EUROPE-A three-year European project dubbed DOTFIVE is focusing on the RTD activities necessary to move the silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterojunction-bipolar-transistor (HBT) into the frequency range of 0.5 THz (500 GHz) at room temperature. Using ......More
  • Nov. 9, 2010
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    Satcom Transceiver Delivers Linear 13 W

    This highly integrated microwave assembly employs advanced SMT fabrication techniques to reduce size, weight, and power to previously unattainable levels....More
  • Nov. 9, 2010
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    Seeking Faster Devices At IEDM

    Several sessions at the upcoming 2010 IEDM will focus in improvements in high-frequency device performance and how to model them more accurately and effectively....More
  • Oct. 14, 2010
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    ICs Control Gain In Wireless Networks

    These digitally controlled circuits provide precise control of amplitude levels over a 31.5-dB range through 1 GHz for applications in wireless infrastructure equipment....More
  • Oct. 7, 2010
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    FPGA Reconfigures Space-Based Systems

    The industrys first high-density, rad-hard reconfigurable field-programmable gate array offers an option to rad-hard ASICs in space applications....More
  • Aug. 19, 2010
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    Single-Chip Bluetooth Platform

    The Bluetooth platform developed by CSR is a single-mode, single-chip low-energy platform. Low-energy Bluetooth systems are important to the wireless communications sector for applications like remote controls, health and well-being devices, ......More
  • Aug. 19, 2010
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    Front-End Module Serves 900-MHz ISM Band

    WITH ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE (AMI) and other applications in the Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band gaining in popularity, the RF3858 front-end module is a promising solution for portable equipment in need of size reduction. It ......More
  • Jul. 16, 2010
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    Transceiver IC Tackles 3G, LTE

    This compact multiband, multimode transceiver simplifies 2G, 3G, UMTS, EDGE, and LTE handset designs by doing away with many of the amplifiers and SAW filters commonly found in conventional architectures....More
  • Jul. 16, 2010
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    DDS RFIC Performs Direct Digital Modulation

    With the increasing availability of ultra-highspeed digital-to-analog converters (DACs), a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) can generate waveforms exceeding 1 GHz. Until now, however, no higheroutput DDSs have been able to provide the desired ......More
  • Jun. 17, 2010
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    One Billion Devices

    AMONG THESE ACHIEVEMENTS, NXP also is celebrating a production milestone with its ICODE chip. Recently, the company shipped its one-billionth component. In an effort to maintain this device's success, NXP has launched the ICODE SLIx ......More
  • Jun. 17, 2010
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    NXP Commits To SiGe Roadmap As Sales Of ICODE Chips Hit A Billion

    Eindhoven, Netherlands: By the end of this year, NXP Semiconductors plans to release 50 different products based on its new silicon germanium: carbide (SiGe:C) process technology. The process, dubbed QUBiC4, is designed to meet the needs of ......More
  • May 18, 2010
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    MMICs Serve Key Transceiver Functions

    This long-time supplier of discrete semiconductor devices is entering the GaAs MMIC market focused on solutions for wireless macro cells, repeaters, and femto cells....More
  • May 18, 2010
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    Healthcare Segment Offers Plentiful RF Prospects

    From components in imaging systems to devices for telecommunications infrastructure, opportunities in healthcare abound for microwave and RF firms....More
  • May 18, 2010
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    RFID Chip Helps To Reduce Safety Concerns

    IDS Microchip began shipping development kits to early adopters for a novel radio-frequency-identification (RFID) sensor and data logging chip....More
  • May 11, 2010
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    Sizing Up Benefits Of Wafer-Scale Packaging

    Wafer-scale packaging (WSP) is a bold new approach to housing semiconductors. It uses a semiconductor process to create a package around an ICa package that is only slightly larger than the chip itself. It can be used with both silicon and GaAs ICs to ......More
  • Apr. 20, 2010
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    MEMS Expands Its CMOS Presence

    According to Germany-based MEMS foundry X-Fab, one of its prime assets is the in-house co-existence of MEMS and CMOS mixed-signal processes. Because MEMS devices are manufactured using techniques that are similar to those employed for ICs, ......More
  • Apr. 20, 2010
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    Breakthrough Builds MEMS On Standard CMOS Wafer

    A Spanish company, Baolab Systems, has pioneered a new technology that is expected to cut the cost of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) while strongly impacting mobile communication design. Key to this breakthrough is the company's ability to ......More
  • Mar. 18, 2010
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    SoC Cuts PA Distortion While Raising Efficiency

    LAFOX, ILRichardson Electronics Ltd. has teamed with Scintera, Inc. to bring Scintera's SC1887 system-on-a-chip (SoC) to market. The SC1887 promises to deliver power-amplifier (PA) linearity improvements without requiring access to ......More
  • Mar. 18, 2010
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    SoC Makes Breakthrough

    For Global Foundriesin conjunction with ARMSpain's mobile-communications techfest offered an opportunity to unveil a system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology for powering next-generation wireless products and applications. The chip manufacturing ......More
  • Feb. 19, 2010
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    Properly Packaging RF Semiconductors

    Although often overlooked, the package is an inseparable part of an RF/microwave semiconductor device, contributing to electrical performance and long-term reliability....More
  • Feb. 19, 2010
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    Chip Helps Manage M2M Mobile Communications

    GENEVA, SWITZERLANDSmart-card integrated-circuit (IC) maker STMicroelectronics has developed a low-power processor chip dedicated to managing SIM data for machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular communications. Recent research is suggesting that ......More
  • Feb. 19, 2010
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    Device Processes Differ In Benefits

    A wide range of silicon- and GaAs-based semiconductor processes are available from open foundries, for fabricating low-noise and power devices and circuits through millimeter-wave frequencies....More
  • Nov. 17, 2009
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    Scientists Demonstrate Wafer-Scale Graphene-On-Silicon Technology

    MALIBU, CA HRL scientists have fabricated and demonstrated graphene- on-silicon field-effect transistors (FETs) at full wafer scale. This work is part of the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program, which is sponsored by the Defense ......More
  • Nov. 17, 2009
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    MMICs Serve MM-Wave Systems

    Available in chip and QFN-packaged forms, these MMIC devices provide many of the fundamental functions needed to assemble compact commercial or military microwave and millimeter-wave radios....More

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