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Flash-Based FPGAs Shrink Cost But Not Performance With the introduction of its ProASIC3/E third-generation Flash-based programmable-logic devices, Actel addresses the market's need for FPGAs in consumer, automotive, and other cost-sensitive application areas. This value-conscious segment is the fastest-growing area of the FPGA market. Delivering 64-b, 66-MHz PCI performance, the ProASIC3/E FPGAs also offer on-chip Flash memory. They range in density from 600,000 to 3 million system gates and offer secure in-system... — Staff February 2005 [News] Three-Transceiver Mimo Integrated Circuit Boosts Bandwidths Users have an insatiable need for bandwidth. As a result, wireless-product OEMs are looking to incorporate data rates that are higher than those permitted by existing 802.11a/g standards. Some are eyeing the emerging Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) standard, which is also known as 802.11n. It promises to achieve data rates of more than 200 Mbps. To aid in their quest, Athena Semiconductors and Samsung Electronics' Digital Media R&D Center have developed a three-transceiver RF... — Lisa Maliniak February 2005 [Cover Story] Structured ASICs Plan To Outpace FPGAs System architects generally turn to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) when designing ICs for high-volume, high-performance applications. Yet the development of such ASICs calls for expensive design tools. It also invites high development costs and extended time to market. To conquer these problems, Altera recently introduced its third-generation structured ASIC: the 90-nm HardCopy II family. The HardCopy II structured ASICs were created as an alternative to... — Nancy Friedrich February 2005 [New Products] TD-SCDMA Chip Set Aids 3G Developers As far as consumer adoption goes, China is predicted to be the next great handset market. As a result, many companies are working to get their products and technologies into those devices. In its SoftFone-LCR chip set, for example, Analog Devices now offers a complete chip set for developers of 3G mobile terminals based on the TD-SCDMA Low Chip Rate (LCR) air interface. Powered by ADI's Blackfin processor, the chip set provides all of the critical functions that are needed to build a... — Staff February 2005 [New Products] Integrated Circuits Embed Wi-Fi In Portables With the launch of a range of single-chip Wi-Fi devices, CSR now offers designers a Wi-Fi implementation that specifically targets cell phones and other pocket-sized consumer products. Examples of such products include digital cameras and MP3 players. CSR's UniFi ICs combine up to three Wi-Fi standards into one chip. Because UniFi does not rely on a host processor, it also is suitable for embedding Wi-Fi in consumer-electronic devices like DVD or video players and plasma screens.... — Staff December 2004 [Design Application] Integration Is A Must For Future Handsets There appears to be no end to the functionality that can be added to the next-generation mobile phone. This trend is partially driven by network operators. After all, they can realize a higher annual revenue per user by offering handsets with... — Jerry Loraine December 2004 [New Products] Drop-In Solution Takes Place Of FPGAs To reduce costs and remain competitive in today's market, many engineering companies are relying on field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) conversions. Now, they have another choice in the XPressArray-II (XPA-II) product from AMI Semiconductor. The... — Nancy Friedrich November 2004 [News] Single Chip Brings A-GPS To Mobile Phones When the Enhanced 911 (E911) mandate was put into place by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), both carriers and device makers fought to cost effectively implement a service that seemed to offer little return on investment. Since that time,... — Nancy Friedrich November 2004 [Cover Story] Higher-Bandwidth DSP Covers Asia's Telecom Market Few places have experienced the explosive wireless-telecommunication-network growth that has been seen in Asia. The demand for wireless devices and, more importantly, the networks that support them has been especially great in China. For instance,... — John Blyler November 2004 [New Products] 802.11a/b/g Solution Occupies Single Chip Although the evolution toward higher integration remains at a constant rate of improvement, such integration is only successful if it does not sacrifice performance. Atheros Communications, Inc. claims to have overcome that risk with its single-chip... — Nancy Friedrich November 2004 [New Products] Real-Time Clock IC Cuts Current Consumption In handheld devices, energy efficiency is critical. To help designers achieve that efficiency, Seiko Instruments has come out with the S-35180A and S-35380A Series ICs. These ICs promise to provide ultra-low current consumption for real-time clocks.... — Nancy Friedrich October 2004 [Design Application] FPGAs Help Software-Defined Radios Adapt With the proliferation of wireless standards, future devices will need to support multiple air interfaces and modulation formats. Software-defined-radio (SDR) technology enables such functionality. It uses a reconfigurable hardware platform across... — Deepak Boppana , et al. October 2004 [New Products] Bluetooth Core Supports Multiple Radios From the beginning, the success of Bluetooth has largely hinged upon the standard's ability to meet the right price-performance point. Although it took some time, the XBlue 1200 Core from IPextreme is one of a number of devices that plans to fulfill... — Nancy Friedrich September 2004 [Cover Story] Software Works So You Don't Have To Traditionally, the cover of Wireless Systems Design has featured a product, component, or design tool that in some way stands out from the rest. The cover product may flaunt lower power, lower cost, or higher performance. Or, it may have been... — Cheryl Ajluni July/August 2004 [News] Solution Aligns ICs And Their Packages With the continued rise of densities and I/O counts, integrated-circuit (IC) packages face a multitude of demands. If they don't satisfy these needs, the packages could stand in the way of IC progress. In fact, the semiconductor industry's move to... — Nancy Friedrich July/August 2004 [New Products] Wide-Bandwidth Amplifier Heightens Dynamic Range The design and manufacturing of radio systems can be simplified by selecting a device that supports multiple functions. Mimix Broadband, for example, recently announced an amplifier with low noise bias. This feature makes it suitable as a low-noise... — Staff June 2004 [News] DSP + ARM Device Seeks Portable Data Terminals Often, people think that the wireless space is comprised solely of cell phones, PDAs, and wireless-networking devices. In truth, however, such products represent only a segment of this market's far-reaching potential. Take the fast-rising... — Nancy Friedrich June 2004 [Cover Story] Chip Set Widens ZigBee's Web Right now, a multitude of wireless-connectivity standards exists. Each of these standards promises to fill a unique void in the path toward total wireless-network connectivity. Many experts agree that getting to this connected reality is possible. Yet... — Cheryl Ajluni June 2004 [Product Features] FPGA Prototyping Tool Aligns With ASIC Flow Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for prototyping 500,000-plus-gate designs. Driving this trend is the fact that a median application-specific integrated-circuit (ASIC) design can now fit onto the largest field-programmable... — John Blyler June 2004 [Product Features] Platform Eases Hands-Free Bluetooth Design What if you could truly have hands-free cell-phone operation while driving down the road? Better yet, imagine that this capability was inexpensive, yet provided high sound quality. Texas Instruments believes that most cell-phones users would welcome... — John Blyler  prev. page
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