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November 6, 2007
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The Cell Phone: Best Wireless Product Ever Or Menace?
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Louis Frenzel, Communications/Test Editor
Have you become dependent on your cell phone? Do you feel naked without it? Has your cell phone become a source of entertainment as well as just a way to make a phone call? Most of you would say yes to all those questions. Which is why the cell phone business has grown so big and continues to get bigger...
Portable Designs With High Power Batteries And Chargers Electronic Design Webinar-Presented by Micro Power Electronics Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2 pm ET
Micro Power provides an industry update and profiles new high-power (or high-pulse) rechargeable lithium batteries. Traditional lithium batteries support pulses of 5 Amps, while new high power batteries support pulses over 100 Amps, enabling many new portable applications. This webcast details cell configurations, chemical formulations, electrical performance, safety issues, limitations, and sample performance data generated in our test facility.
Turning Promise Into Practice: How To build A Practical Wireless Sensor Network
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Brian Macdonald, Director Dynastream Innovations, Inc.
Nobody can question that the wireless revolution has already begun. CDMA or GSM for long-range voice and data, Wi-Fi for WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks), and Bluetooth for consumer-oriented PANs (Personal Area Networks) are all flourishing. Although each is a very successful commercial technology, they are restricted to particular applications areas by virtue of range, bandwidth and power requirements...
SDR Forum Adding Tactical Radio SIG, Moving On Other Initiatives
The Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum is establishing a special interest group (SIG) that will focus on the needs of the worldwide tactical radio community. The Forum, a nonprofit international industry association supporting the advancement of reconfigurable wireless technology, also announced that members will vote on approval of four significant documents at the organization's general meeting on Nov. 9...
WiMAX Measurement Solution Demonstrated At PlugFest
Participants at the WiMAX Forum's recent public Mobile WiMAX PlugFest, an interoperability showcase in Taipei, Taiwan, were able to use Agilent Technologies Inc.'s Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) measurement solutions...
Dozens Of Products Certified To Next-Generation Wi-Fi Standard
More than 95 next-generation IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 products have been Wi-Fi Certified in the testing program's first three months, according to the Wi-Fi Alliance. The first wave of products, from nearly 30 manufacturers, includes access points, laptop computers, routers, and wireless networking cards...
Taking advantage of the company's advanced, low-power SiGe BiCMOS process, the MAX2659 high-gain, low-noise amplifier (LNA) from Maxim Integrated Products achieves a 20.5-dB gain and a noise figure of 0.8 dB...
A series of broadband 2-W BNC attenuators from Coaxial Dynamics is rated from dc to 4 GHz, which includes WiMax, WiFi, and WiBro testing applications. The 6902-BNCF series offers a VSWR of 1.25:1 maximum through 4 GHz and their accuracy is ±0.3 dB to 6 dB, ±0.5 dB to 20 dB, and ±0.75 dB to 30 dB...
High-Performance Receive Downconverters Hit Production Volume
Several single-channel and diversity downconverters from Skyworks Solutions Inc., including the SKY73032 and the SKY73021, have reached volume production with industry leading infrastructure OEMs, with more than one million units shipped...
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3G Evolution: HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband
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Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Skold and Per Beming
Third-generation (3G) cell-phone technologies have been a long time in coming. But they are with us now and are beginning to make a difference in cellular service, particularly in non-voice applications such as e-mail, Internet access, and video.
