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Virtual USB Cable Hits The Street A new wireless-communications product line, dubbed CableFree USB, promises to create a virtual cable. This virtual cable will allow PCs, notebooks, and peripherals with a USB port to communicate wirelessly. Targeted at the installed base of legacy... April 2003 [New Products] Reference Design Drives Time To Market Scalability and flexibility are key factors in the constantly evolving smart-phone segment. By gaining access to comprehensive reference designs and robust support services, mobile-handset manufacturers could gain a competitive advantage. Heeding... April 2003 [New Products] Compact Fuel Cell Is In Development Development is underway by Neah Power Systems to create a small, compact fuel cell that is capable of powering mobile electronics products. This might include products like notebook PCs or advanced communications gear. The development will center... April 2003 [New Products] GSM/GPRS Radio Fits In Dime-Sized Package The market just welcomed a complete handset radio system that fits into a single, dime-sized package. It is known as the SKY74073 Single Package Radio (SPR). This solution combines all of the radio circuitry required for GSM/GPRS 900/1800 handsets... April 2003 [New Products] Parallel-Optics Line Gets A Boost The XTM series of parallel-optics modules has been re-energized, thanks to the addition of an electrical pre-emphasis capability. This capability is crucial for high-speed interconnect products. In such applications, pre-emphasis mitigates the... April 2003 [New Products] Power Dividers/Combiners Stand Out Two 12-way Wilkinson power divider/combiners have now been introduced. They are designed specifically to cover systems applications in the cellular, GSM, PCS, and ISM bands. The units are true 12-way designs. They provide high isolation and... April 2003 [New Products] Solutions Target Power And Display Development A group of mixed-signal ASICs has been introduced to aid the development and proliferation of next-generation portable wireless devices. These single-chip ASICs, which number seven in total, include innovative display-lighting and analog... April 2003 [New Products] Remote Data Collection Becomes Simplified Texas Instruments and SPIRIT-DSP have announced the availability of a flexible, low-power DSP-based solution. It is optimized for remote data collection and applications requiring a telephony coprocessor or voiceband processor. It is the first of... April 2003 [New Products] Controller Chip Raises The Standard With the MQ2100 Multimedia Platform Controller chip, mobile-handset manufacturers can rapidly integrate embedded cameras and color graphics into existing and new product designs. In addition, OEMs can easily incorporate high-end multimedia... April 2003 [News] On The Wireless Front Milpitas, California Linear Technology Corp. recently introduced LTC4054a single-cell linear Li-Ion battery charger with both on-board charge termination circuitry and power transistor. This device is... March 2003 [New Products] Technology Gives Devices Interconnectivity Recently, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector licensed the USB On-The-Go (OTG) technology from Trans-Dimension. This move positions the company to develop next-generation applications processors for the portable-information and wireless-device... March 2003 [New Products] DC/DC Converters Flaunt Rich Features Two additions to the Onami DC/DC converter series have come to market with a rich set of features. The Onami 5-V and Onami 12-V modules specifically target computer- and communications-equipment OEMs. Designers can use them in many different design... March 2003 [New Products] Audio Codec Targets Digital Voice And Audio The CMX649 compact, low-power, multimode audio-codec IC is now available to customers. Targeted specifically at the wireless digital-voice/audio-communications marketplace, this device offers full-duplex ADM (CVSD) and PCM (linear and A-law) modes.... March 2003 [New Products] 8-Mb SRAM Blends High Speed And Low Power The demand for high-speed, low-power devices is increasing. Stepping up to the plate to fill this demand is ISSI. The company recently introduced an 8-Mb, high-speed, asynchronous-monolithic backward-compatible SRAM. This device comes in several... March 2003 [New Products] Single-Chip Text-To-Speech Processor Cuts Its Price These days, cost is a common reason to not use a new technology. With a new and aggressive pricing strategy for its WTS701 Text-To-Speech processor, Winbond Electronics hopes to eliminate this obstacle once and for all. This single-chip processor is... March 2003 [New Products] 802.11a/b/g And 802.11g Chip Sets Sample Engineering samples for the WiND502 multimode IEEE 802.11a/b/g and the WiND512 IEEE 802.11g chip sets are now available. Both products are two-chip solutions with a common MAC/baseband processor, called the EN202, and a different but pin-compatible... March 2003 [New Products] Innovative Trench Process Technology Arrives A unique trench process technology has made its way into the market. On average, it delivers a 40% improvement in on-resistance when compared to other trench processes on the market today. This is true across all of the MOSFET package offerings that... March 2003 [New Products] Handsets Experience Multimodal Operation A breakthrough in mobile multimodal technology may set the stage for the mass-market adoption of simultaneous multimodality operation in wireless handsets. With this technology, subscribers can use voice/visual input and output at the same time on a... March 2003 [New Products] J2EE/Lotus Domino Applications Go Mobile Waplane is a mobilizing solution that was developed by Sofor Oy. It mobilizes any J2EE (WebSphere) or Lotus Domino application, such as Customer Relations Management (CRM), Enter-prise Resource Planning (ERP), or Field Sales Automation (FSA)... March 2003 [New Products] Noise Attenuator Slashes Size And Price The QuietPower output-ripple-attenuation module, dubbed QPO-1, relies on active filtering in a SIP package. It can thereby provide more than 20 dB of conducted differential noise attenuation from 60 Hz to 500 kHz. It is rated for 10 A and can be... |
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