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| Wireless System Update e-Newsletter
| April 8, 2008
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Electronic Design Is Covering CTIA - The Premiere Wireless
Event
If you are looking for a way to learn all the latest cell phone
technologies and find out who is doing what in this dynamic field, the
CTIA conference in Las Vegas April 1-3 is your best bet. While the
Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona is the largest cell phone show
in the world, CTIA is the largest in the U.S. and is expected to have
40,000-plus attendees and over 1200 exhibitors.
Click here to view exclusive content from the show.
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Living Through Our Cell Phones
By Louis Frenzel, Communications/Test Editor
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In case you haven't noticed, we live in a cell phone-centric world.
Steve Largent, president and CEO of the CTIA said at one of the keynotes
during the recent CTIA conference, "We are living through our cell
phones." At first I was skeptical of such a statement, but thinking
about it, he's right. The cell phone may just be our one single most
important accessory or appliance—however you want to classify it.
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entire article...
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Tread Lightly, You've Got Electronics In Your
Boots
By Mark David, Group Editorial Director
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I recently had a chance to spend some time in the wireless mecca of
San Diego; I was there to participate in an Ultra Low Power Wireless
event hosted by Nordic Semiconductor. Nordic defines ultra-low power as
those devices that can run on a coin cell battery for at least a year,
and its 2.4 Gigahertz wireless products offer the perfect range and
power for innovative personal area network (PAN) applications.
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entire article...
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Fab@Home: Artificial
Evolution
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Imagine owning a machine, about the size of your desktop printer
that at the touch of a button will churn out three dimensional
completely functional products like cell phones, shoes, even food and
prosthetic limbs. Evan Malone, a Ph.D. candidate working in Cornell
University's Computational Synthesis Laboratory, discusses how professor
Hod Lipson's work on artificial evolution influenced the Fab@Home
project.
Click here to watch the video.
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IEEE Announces A New Wireless Engineering
Certification
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The topic of licensing and certification comes up every now and then
in engineering. There are always two camps that emerge in these
discussions—those who say "who needs it?" and a support group that
thinks it is a good and necessary. Of course, licenses and
certifications are a personal thing depending upon your interests and
needs.
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entire article...
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ZigBee Radio Module Enlists Powerful
Transceiver
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Expanding the company's family of ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 radio
modules, the latest Matrix module employs the Texas Instruments CC2430
transceiver platform to provide an integrated, drop-in ZigBee radio
system.
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App Opens Vistas For Mobile Phone OEMs
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Offering mobile phone manufacturers more options to innovate and
diversify their products, the UIQ 3.3 application, based on Symbian OS v
9.3, allows users to produce different types of phones on the same
software platform, i.e., on a single code line.
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entire article...
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Military PHY IP Goes Mainstream
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Considered military wireless technology, the company now offers a
commercial release of its 802.11n PHY IP solution, a licensable and
synthesizable HDL implementation of the IEEE Standard 802.11n Draft 2.0
Edition.
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Power Amps Eye Next-Gen Cell Networks
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Designed for next generation cellular and WiMAX applications, the
MGA-30116/-30216/-30316 debut as 0.5 W base-station power amplifiers and
the ALM-42316 low-voltage power amplifier embarks for mobile handset and
fixed terminals.
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Battery Authentication ICs Provide Effective
Security
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Described as the most advanced and flexible battery authentication
ICs for cell phones, the ISL9206 and ISL9206A enlist the company's
FlexiHash+ technology, which employs two sets of 32-bit secrets for
generating authentication code.
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GaN Power Transistor Packs 45 W Wallop
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Primed for high peak-to-average power applications in 2.5 GHz and
3.5 GHz designs, the NPT1004 gallium nitride high electron mobility
transistor delivers 45 W of power at 28 V.
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entire article...
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Free Webinar: Wireless Sensing Networks: A Survey Of Design
Options April 30, 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT
Developing a wireless sensor network can be an awesome challenge or a
simple matter of picking the right module, depending on who you ask.
Off-the-shelf solutions have certain advantages, but may not be the best
overall solution to your problem. Homegrown or custom solutions can be
designed to overcome specific challenges, so they can be critical for
certain projects. Learn more about the technical pros and cons of both
options in this live course, hosted by Robert Repas,
Electrical/Electronics Editor with Machine Design.
Go to http://electronicdesign.com/go/wirelesssensing to
register.
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Last month, Fujitsu announced a
2.5-in. hard-disk drive with speeds up to 7200 rpm and a 320-Gbyte
capacity, using just 2.3 W. What does this indicate about the role of
HDDs in the future?
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- The HDD is here to stay.
- Competition with flash will balance both technologies.
- Flash's dominance is inevitable.
- Eventually, both technologies will be replaced by more exotic
storage.
Click here to
take the poll. Remember to scroll down, the page is at the bottom of the
page.
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Webinar: Improving The Accuracy Of Eye Pattern
Measurements
Presented by LeCroy
April 9 at 2 pm ET
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This Web seminar, presented by LeCroy Business Development Manager
Michael Schnecker, will describe the limitations of eye-pattern testing
and some of the more important eye-based measurements. A measurement
technique using the normalized q-scale method from jitter analysis and
expanded to two dimensions will be described, and its application to
mask testing and signal measurements will be demonstrated.
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Your Ideas For Design Can Win $500
Send us your Ideas for Design and we'll pay you $150 for every Idea for
Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected
by our readers will earn an additional $500, with two runners-up each
receiving $250. You can submit your Ideas for Design via e-mail to: dbs@penton.com or, mail your material
to:
Ideas for Design
Electronic Design
45 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 550
Paramus, NJ 07652
Click here for our guidelines on Ideas for Design...
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Industrial Networking Texts: Two
Selections
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Read up on Communications/Test Editor Louis Frenzel's reviews and
recommendations on two reference guides from the industiral networking
industry. "Industrial Ethernet, 2nd Ed.," by P.S. Marshall and J.S.
Rinaldi introduces how Ethernet carries the TCP/IP protocol suite, and
there is also coverage on Ethernet hardware. The second book,
"Industrial Data Communications, 4th Ed.," by L.M. Thompson, covers a
rainbow of topics within the serial-data communications field.
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entire article...
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