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Converging Markets Nourish RFIC And RF-Design Growth The wireless space has become virtually overrun with radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). This trend is largely responsible for the shrinking sizes and continued power conservation of today's wireless devices. According to the... September 2003 [News] Multimedia Technology Charms Handset Industry Remaining competitive in these tough economic times can be a challenge. It's even more difficult to thrive against other major players. Yet somehow, the Santa Clara, California-based Nazomi Comm. seems to have succeeded on both of these fronts. At the... September 2003 [News] Calendar Embedded Systems Conference Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA September 15-18,... September 2003 [News] Mobile Entertainment Proceeds Forward These days, the term mobile entertainment is creating a big buzz in the wireless industry. Gone are the days when a cell phone was merely used to place and receive calls. Now, consumers demand access to a number of features—not the least of which... September 2003 [News] Short Clips Tropos Networks (www.troposnetworks.com) received an investment from the Intel Communications Fund. Tropos and Intel also plan to participate in joint marketing activities. The investment by Intel Communications Fund is part of its $150 million... September 2003 [News] Mobility Radiates Out From The User In a perfect wireless world, users would be able to access cellular and wireless LANs from a single handset. They would have coverage across enterprise networks, cellular networks, and public hot-spot WLANs. To bring this idealistic vision into... September 2003 [News] Partners Pursue Aerospace And Defense A few years ago, the semiconductor industry seemed to be fated for endless growth. Then the economy started to turn downward, leaving many companies struggling to find profits. For many wireless- and radio-frequency-focused companies, the world... September 2003 [News] DoD Prompts GPS Evolution In the past six months, global-positioning-system (GPS) equipment has garnered a lot of media attention over possible threats of enemy jamming. To defense-technology experts, however, this supposed security risk doesn't seem to be a cause for major... September 2003 [News] Photovoltaics Take The Weight Off Soldiers In the consumer world, smaller and lighter handheld devices are considered flashy and desirable. In the defense arena, however, it is critical rather than fashionable for a device to be small and low in weight. After all, soldiers must carry this... July/August 2003 [News] Mobile Terminals Crack Infrastructure Problem Existing 2.5G or 3G network cells usually have more download data traffic than upload traffic. As a result, base-station transmitters must work harder. They also need more power to support quality-of-service demands. Until recently, adding... July/August 2003 [News] Mobile And Personal-Area Networks Meet The wireless market has seemingly been dominated by cellular and wireless-local-area networks (WLANs). Though other technologies have been holding their own or even flourishing, they don't garner the same attention. Now, a new wireless category may... July/August 2003 [News] Hearing-Aid Order Echoes Out To Industry An order from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently required that cellular phones become hearing-aid-compatible. For the estimated eight million Americans who currently use hearing aids, today's cell phones have provided noise... July/August 2003 [News] Base Stations Gain Signal-Processing Might Both equipment manufacturers and network operators are facing problems like rising costs and competing interface standards. Their only chance of profits may be to find a more flexible approach to baseband processing. This dilemma has inspired a... July/August 2003 [News] Software And Hardware Test Solutions Merge As wireless communications devices take on more functionality, their designers must rely increasingly on testing. Yet many of these devices' new functions are software based. Often, that software is developed independently of the wireless device and... July/August 2003 [News] Short Clips MIPS Technologies, Inc. (www.mips.com) announced the appointment of Mike Uhler as the company's first Chief Technology Officer. Previously, Uhler served as the Vice President for systems, architecture, and software products at MIPS... July/August 2003 [News] Duo Expedites Prototyping And Verification Recently, quite a few companies have teamed up to quicken the radio-frequency design flow. An example is the recent partnering of National Instruments (http://ni.com) and Ansoft Corp. (www.ansoft.com). These companies have merged the Ansoft Designer... June 2003 [News] MP3 Solution Flaunts ARM And DSP Core New applications often send designers into unknown territories. To make up for a lack of expertise, these engineers may choose to rely on application-specific standard products (ASSPs). Fortunately, ASSPs keep emerging for new applications. In the... June 2003 [News] Visual Tools Serve New ICs To be successful in the marketplace, mobile devices must consistently increase their value and versatility. Their makers don't usually find it easy to meet those goals, however. They must face cost, design-time, and other development hurdles. Now,... June 2003 [News] Speakers Transform Into Internet Radio The race is on to build wireless audio applications into handhelds and other devices. For Bluetooth, this is good news. The standard is proving to be a good fit for applications like MP3 playback. Realizing its potential, Cambridge Silicon Radio... June 2003 [News] Transmit And Receive Diversity Comes Alive Smart-antenna processing, which also is referred to as antenna diversity, has been hailed as the data-throughput savior. In the past, this term solely connoted receive diversity. Now, a technology platform from Magnolia Broadband, Inc....  prev. page
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