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October 2002 - In This Issue [Cover Story] Offering Merges Design And Test Many design-automation vendors have sought to ease wireless-product development through a streamlined design and verification process. Luckily for wireless engineers, Agilent Technologies has succeeded. This month, the Agilent EEsof EDA division comes... — Cheryl Ajluni [Special Report] Will 3G Have To Compete For The Wireless Future? Often the simplest questions asked are the hardest ones to answer. For example, ask any group of technology-savvy colleagues if third-generation, or simply 3G, networks exist today. You'll get three different answers: yes, no, and maybe. Why is there... — John Blyler [Product Features] GPS Receiver Attracts New Applications Many third-generation or 3G applications are going to require cellular positioning—both for accuracy and to provide new services. In order for an individual to be directed to the gas station nearest to his or her vehicle, for example, the car's... — Nancy Konish [New Products] New Family Member Spawned For Transistors The latest addition to California Eastern Laboratories' (CEL's) burgeoning family of NEC silicon-germanium (SiGe) low-noise transistors is NESG2101M05. Featuring a low noise figure, good linearity, and high gain performance, this device has been... — Staff Nine Varied Components Make Their Debut Nine new products recently emerged from Hittite Microwave Corp. Included in this line-up are frequency dividers and multipliers, as well as power and driver amplifiers. Of the nine, five are for frequency generation. All of the frequency-generation... — Staff ISM Workstation Monitors And Records 2.4-GHz Band The CS20310C ISM Workstation is able to monitor and record up to 16 sec. or 25,600 hops of all signals within the 2.4-GHz ISM band. This includes Bluetooth, 802.11b, 802.11g, and HomeRF signals. Those signals can then be played back to reproduce... — Staff Management Suite Zeroes In On Low Power PowerTheater is a power-management design suite that includes accurate register-transfer and gate-level full-chip power analysis, as well as flexible power optimization. Now, it has been powerfully enhanced. Each new function has been specifically... — Staff FBAR-Duplexer Pair Gets Miniaturized Being 50% to 80% smaller than competing duplexers, this family of film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) allows designers to create ultra-slim cell phones and data cards for personal digital assistants. Included in the family are the HPMD-7904 and... — Staff 5.8-GHz Transceiver Module Arrives In factory and industrial environments, the crowding of frequency bands has limited the growth of wireless networks. Between the crowded 2.4-GHz and 900-MHz bands, congestion issues continue to arise. Now, a solution to this problem may have been... — Staff [Column] It's Time To Get In Touch With Your Senses The wireless Web has certainly received a lot of attention—and for good reason. There are approximately 700 million wireless subscribers today. In three years, this number is expected to double. Market-research firms estimate that mobile... — Sandeep Sibal [News] Oscillator Targets OC-48 And OC-768 Applications The 2.5-GHz M625 surface-mount-technology (SMT), voltage-controlled SAW oscillator (VCSO) is designed for use in OC-48 and emerging OC-768 applications. This includes possibilities like high-speed SONET/SDH and GbE applications. It offers good phase... — Staff Wire-Free Electricity Fuels Mobile Devices The most obvious physical flaw in current "wireless" devices is the need to plug them in and charge them. Take the cellular phone, for instance. As its size has shrunk and its feature list has grown, neither the power setup nor the battery life has... — Nancy Konish 2003: The Year Of 90 nm The 90-nm process mark has filled the design industry with both awe and trepidation. It demands new design tools, processes, and expertise. Despite the state of the economy and many design hurdles, however, companies are moving toward this process.... — Nancy Konish Multimodal Browser Extends Mobile Applications Now that text services are becoming ubiquitous with mobile devices, the complaints are growing about "triple tapping" or trying to write PDA-style script. Customers simply don't want the hassle. Yet most computing applications—like those... — Nancy Konish Technology Platform Serves Multimedia Devices Digital media is coming home. This time, though, it's not staying at the personal-computer level. The home-entertainment, mobile, and automotive segments are all gearing up for digital systems and solutions. To help them along, Royal Philips... — Nancy Konish Headset Cuts Risk Of Radiation Cellular phones seem to have multiplied their way across the U.S. and ma3.ny parts of the world. Yet the debate over their safety is still unresolved. The consumer population seems to have largely been won over by the products' convenience, and... — Nancy Konish [Show Coverage] Interest Widens In Analog Mixed-Signal Tools In the relentless march toward smaller, lighter, and better mobile wireless devices, the ever-increasing integration of analog and digital circuits has been essential. This trend toward tighter integration is evidenced by the shift in importance from... — John Blyler [Editor's Note] Kids Show Us The Way Speaking very eloquently, someone once said that we should "teach our children well." They are our future. It's a strong statement and sentiment, given the "I"-driven, time-crunched society in which we all live. Yet every once in a while, I regain the... — Cheryl Ajluni |
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