============================== Wireless Systems Design UPDATE WSD ==> www.wsdmag.com July 10, 2007 ============================== Greetings and welcome to your personal copy of the Wireless Systems Design UPDATE e-newsletter. Please see below for address-change or subscribe/unsubscribe instructions. Today's Table of Contents: 1. Viewpoint: Choosing the Right Memory For Your Cell-Phone System 2. Commentary: What's New With Wi-Fi? Better Still, What's Next? 3. Siano Goes With The Flo, You Get Better Multimedia Coverage 4. GaN HEMTs Get Boost To Save Power 5. Power Amps Boast CDMA2000 And 1xEVDO Compatibility 6. Digital Radio Test Set Targets Analog, TETRA, And P25 7. WiMAX RF Transceiver Cuts BOM, Leapfrogs To 4G Tech 8. Quick Poll 9. Happenings/Conferences -IWPC: Enclosure and Cooling Technologies for Outdoor Base Stations -IWPC: High Data Rate Mobile Network Overlays & Base Station Upgrades -Exploring Design and Test Challenges in the Wireless World: Bluetooth ****************************************************************** ************* 1. Viewpoint ************* Choosing the Right Memory For Your Cell-Phone System By Vijay K. Devadiga, Senior Staff Product Marketing Engineer Silicon Storage Technology Inc. Cell-phone system designers have more choices today in picking a flash memory solution. Identifying and selecting the right solution that meets their design objectives is very important to ensure success. Of course, each memory solution has its pros and cons... Read the entire article at: http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16033&bypass=1 ****************** 2. Commentary ****************** What's New With Wi-Fi? Better Still, What's Next? By Louis Frenzel Communications/Test Editor Wi-Fi is the familiar name for the world's most popular wireless local-area networking (WLAN) system, also known as the IEEE 802.11 standard. Wi-Fi has been around for about a decade, which is a long time (at least in electronics). Now, it has reached that stage where it is so successful, it's utterly taken for granted. With such a successful technology, you have to wonder where it's going... http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16034&bypass=1 ****************** 3. News ****************** Siano Goes With The Flo, You Get Better Multimedia Coverage Recently, Qualcomm gave Siano Mobile Silicon, a supplier of semiconductor solutions for mobile digital TV (MDTV), the thumbs-up to incorporate its patented FLO technology in semiconductor chip products for multi-standard MDTV receivers... Read the entire article at: http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16062&bypass=1 ******** 4. News ******** GaN HEMTs Get Boost To Save Power In correlation with its maturation, Wi-Fi technology (or any technology for that matter) requires a consistent grade of power-saving technology to counter the appetites of expanding functionality and energy waste. Recently, Fujitsu unveiled its latest achievements in improving gallium-nitride (GaN) high electron-mobility transistors (HEMT) to tout greater power-saving qualities. Read the entire article at: http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16060&bypass=1 ******** 5. News ******** Power Amps Boast CDMA2000 And 1xEVDO Compatibility Anadigics' ZeroIC power amps (PAs) are the company's latest in 3G technology, providing compatibility with reference designs based on the Qualcomm RTR6500 transceivers and second-generation Qualcomm Single Chip (QSC) products, which integrated CDMA2000 1X radio transceivers, baseband modems, power management, and multimedia engines into a single chip. Read the entire article at: http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16059&bypass=1 ******** 6. News ******** Digital Radio Test Set Targets Analog, TETRA, And P25 Aeroflex's 3920 Digital Radio Test Set for analog, TETRA, and P25 technologies features enhancements from its predecessors that provide test professionals with various test capabilities, extended analysis range, and file management functions. It can also perform all previous test-capabilities of the 3901 and 3902 models... Read the entire article at: http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16058&bypass=1 ******** 7. News ******** WiMAX RF Transceiver Cuts BOM, Leapfrogs To 4G Tech Maxim Integrated Products looks to cut bill-of-materials (BOM) costs by 50% with the MAX2837, a single-chip WiMAX RF transceiver. How? This model eliminates voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuitry and surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) filters, and is designed with a zero-IF platform... Read the entire article at: http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16065&bypass=1 *************************** 8. Quick Poll: *************************** What kind of infotainment system do you want most in your next car? -- Navigation system -- Internet access -- Rear-seat entertainment -- Increased memory -- Safety/securtiy features -- Other Let your voice be heard. Vote now on: http://www.elecdesign.com/ The Quick Poll is located at the bottom of the page, so don't forget to scroll down! ************************** 9. Happenings/Conferences ************************** IWPC Infrasctructure Workshops: Enclosure and Cooling Technologies for Outdoor Base Stations July 31 Chicago, Ill. http://www.iwpc.org/ws/0707/Encl.asp IWPC Infrasctructure Workshops: High Data Rate Mobile Network Overlays & Base Station Upgrades Aug 1-3 Chicago, Ill. http://www.iwpc.org/ws/0707/Overlay.asp Web Seminar: Exploring Design and Test Challenges in the Wireless World: Bluetooth September 20 http://www.planetee.com/events ****************************************************************** Read past issues of Wireless Systems Design UPDATE e-Newsletter: http://news.electronicdesign.com/t?r=46&c=0&l=1507&ctl=154AD:683EDA4D52DD52577170BD14EC02DAB2 ****************************************************************** WIRELESS SYSTEMS DESIGN UPDATE e-NEWSLETTER CONTACTS ==================================================== Editor: Louis E. 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