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Future And Disruptive Wireless Technologies The fourth annual Texas Wireless Summit drew over 300 participants—most of whom were high-level executives and managers from local, national, and international wireless companies, venture capitalists, and wireless students and faculty. September 11, 2006 [News] Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and WCDMA: Complementary or Competitive? Which one will be the winner? Wi-Fi, WiMAX, or 3G cell phones using wideband CDMA (or some variation thereof)? In asking who the winner is, one must assume that these technologies are in competition with one another. Some see it this way, while others do not. Each of these three wireless technologies—developed at different times with different perspectives and different objectives—do seem to compete, but not head-on. Instead, what we see is more like an overlap of coverage and function September 11, 2006 [News] Locked Your Keys In The Car? Get Out Your Cell Phone There has been a rumor going around in one of those dreadful e-mails that your friends and co-workers feel compelled to forward to you all the time. If you lock your keys in your car and you have a remote keyless entry system, you can get outside help to open the car if you have your cell phone with you. August 8, 2006 [Wireless Systems Design UPDATE] Wireless Systems Design UPDATE: August 8, 2006 As I was trying to think of a topic to write about this month, my mind wandered off into contemplating what this world would be without wireless. A heavy duty "What If" brain exercise for sure. Maybe discussing, or even thinking about, something that is not real is a huge waste of words, but it does make you appreciate what wireless has given us. August 3, 2006 [Editor's Note] Wasting Away In A World Without Wireless As I was trying to think of a topic to write about this month, my mind wandered off into contemplating what this world would be like without wireless. A heavy duty, "what if" brain exercise for sure. Maybe discussing, or even thinking about, something that is not real is a huge waste of words, but it does make you appreciate what wireless has given us. If you work in wireless as I do, we should all demand more respect in the future. August 3, 2006 [Special Report] 60 kHz Wireless Yes, that is not a mistake. It is 60 kiloHertz not 60 MHz or 60 GHz. There actually is wireless activity at that frequency—at least in the U.S. Specifically, the time standard station WWVB, located near Fort Collins, Colorado, broadcasts on that frequency. July 11, 2006 [Wireless Systems Design UPDATE] Wireless Systems Design UPDATE: July 11, 2006 July 11, 2006 [Column] The Optical Option Not all wireless is RF. As a wireless system designer, when seeking a wireless solution you should always keep in mind that you can use free-space optical (FSO) tools to get you from here to there without wires. Your first thought of an optical solution is probably a TV remote control or the short range infrared (IR) like those IrDA links used in some of the older PDAs, laptops, and other devices... July 11, 2006 [New Products] Low-Power DVB-H TV Tuner And GPS Receiver IP Ready For Integration Portugal's integrated circuit intellectual property (IP) company Chipidea just announced the expansion of their RF IP line with two new designs. The first is a tuner designed for mobile DVB-H video additions in cell phones and other portable devices... July 11, 2006 [New Products] Mobile WiMAX System Comes Packaged In One Chip Fujitsu Microelectronics America just announced their forthcoming highly integrated 802.16e mobile WiMAX PHY and MAC mixed-signal chip. To be built with Fujitsu's 90 nm process, the chip is designed to optimize both performance and power consumption for mobile terminals... July 11, 2006 [New Products] Power Consumption Tester Checks Mobile Wi-Fi Device Battery Life With Wi-Fi chipsets being embedded into more products every day, including cell phones, it is more critical than ever that manufacturers know the real impact of Wi-Fi capability on product power consumption and battery life... July 11, 2006 [New Products] Gen2 UHF RFID Reader Fits Portable Applications WJ Communications’ new MPR7040 is a reader/interrogator unit for RFID applications. It operates in the 923-925 MHz band and is targeted at the Singapore market... July 11, 2006 [New Products] Low-Power W-Fi Chip Targets Embedded Applications With Wi-Fi being embedded into to more products, there is a great need for a very low power transceiver chip. The Conexant CX53121 is just that chip. This third generation 802.11b/g transceiver is designed for battery powered handheld products with embedded wireless networking capabilities... July 11, 2006 [New Products] 802.11a/b/g Transceiver Designed For Handsets And Portable Devices Wi-Fi transceivers are finding themselves in more portable and mobile equipment every day. A prime target is cell phones where VoIP over Wi-Fi is becoming more common. To address this growing need, STMicroelectronics is offering its STLC4420 transceiver... July 11, 2006 [New Products] LDMOS Transistors Boost Power In Microwave Applications M/A-COM, a unit of Tyco Electronics has two new LDMOS (Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor) transistors designed for INMARSAT applications. INMARSAT is the satellite service that serves a variety of marine, aeronautics and enterprise world wide data transmission services... June 7, 2006 [Wireless Systems Design UPDATE] Wireless Systems Design UPDATE: June 7, 2006 June 6, 2006 [Column] The Enigma Of WiMAX I’ve always tried to stay positive about new wireless technologies. I’m still positive about WiMAX (mercifully short for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), but it really is hard to say where this slick technology is headed... May 9, 2006 [Wireless Systems Design UPDATE] Wireless Systems Design UPDATE: May 9, 2006 May 8, 2006 [Column] UWB Bluetooth In case you have not heard the news, Bluetooth, the king of short-range wireless, will get a new physical layer option soon. We normally associate Bluetooth with low-speed ad-hoc networks and cell phone headsets. Now with the decision to add ultra wideband (UWB) as a new air interface... May 8, 2006 [News] Standards Update: May 2006  prev. page
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