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The mobile phone has evolved to do much more than place a call. Common desktop applications such as e-mail access, Web browsing, and downloading music and videos are becoming common on handsets. Uploading clips to YouTube along with direct video sharing merely hint at what is to come. To do so, though, they need higher bandwidths with equally high reliability and handsets that can process such compute-intensive applications...

If you are a wireless wonk like me, you have been following the story of how the FCC has been deciding upon the rules for its upcoming spectrum auction. Thanks to some horrendous lobbying by cell phone carriers, Google, and a host of others, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the other four commissioners have decided on how the spectrum should be sold and used. If you have not been following this whole process, you should take a look at what is going on...

A pair of USB modems for High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) networks offer tri-band connectivity and faster data speeds to mobile broadband networks worldwide. Theoretically the modems more than five times that of current High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) networks at a maximum transmit speed of 2 Mbits/s. Downlink speeds are also improved with a theoretical maximum of 7.2 Mbits/s...

A series of three front-end ICs (FEICs) from Anadigics Inc. come in low-profile standard packages and target space-constrained applications like next-generation, WiFi-enabled smart phones and other consumer products. The AWL9230/9231/9232 offer the industry's highest level of GaAs on-chip integration, according to Anadigics...

Designed to address the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) digital-to-analog converter box program, the BCM3543 from Broadcom Corp. is a turn-key, digital television-on-chip with associated software. The NTIA program is intended to help extend the life of existing analog televisions by providing US residents with coupons to defray the cost of converter boxes when the FCC requires broadcasters to switch to digital broadcasts...

The Si570 and Si571 are the first user-programmable crystal oscillator (Si570) and voltage-controlled crystal oscillator (Si571) that can support any-rate frequency synthesis, according to Silicon Laboratories. Using patented DSPLL technology and an industry-standard I²C interface, users can program either device to generate any frequency from 10 MHz to 1.4 GHz at jitter levels of 0.3 ps rms...

With a noise figure of just 0.35 dB (typical) and 19-dB of associated gain at 2 GHz, NEC's latest GaAs HJ-FET low-noise amplifier, the NE3510M04, is well suited for use as a first stage amplifier in satellite radio antenna applications. The device comes in a 1.25- by 2.0- by 0.59-mm, RoHS-compliant package, making it suitable for compact, low-profile designs...

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