Electronic Design articles from September 2004

Electronic Design archives from September 2004

Partnership boosts NASA's supercomputing power.(Electronics Technology At Work And At Play)
September 6, 2004... NASA's supercomputing power is about to blast off. The agency will team with SGI and Intel to create the Space Exploration Simulator, a new machine that will be based at the NASA Ames Research Center. As part of Project Columbia, NASA will...

Stylish jacket sports MP3 player and cell-phone capability.(Electronics Technology At Work And At Play)
September 6, 2004... For fashion with a high-tech edge, slip into the mp3blue. This jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co. and Infineon Technologies features a built-in MP3 player and cell-phone functionality. Its electrically conductive fabric connects a compact...

Nanoprobe detects single molecules.(Electronics Technology At Work And At Play)
September 6, 2004... Using a light-scattering technique, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a sensor that can theoretically identify single molecules of substances. This probe uses an optical fiber tapered to a lO0-nm tip. It's...

The global resource for electronics engineers.(PlanetEE.com)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Aimed at electronics engineers and engineering managers worldwide, PlanetEE serves as a gateway to the individual Web sites of the highly respected engineering publications and specifier's tools of Penton Media's Electronics Group.

Find the latest on power products.(PlanetEE.com)
September 6, 2004... Need a quick way to gather data on the latest power-related products and services from the world's leading vendors? Want to learn more about the latest introductions in power sources, power passives, power semiconductors, and power products...

Magazines.(PlanetEE.com)
September 6, 2004... Access the Web sites of four leading publications in the EOEM community: Electronic Design EE Product News Microwaves & RF Wireless Systems Design

E-newsletters.(PlanetEE.com)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Sign up for some the industry's best e-newsletters focusing on EE design news, products, tips, and strategies: some of the latest catalogs and demos released by various electronics manufacturers.

Discussion Forums.(PlanetEE.com)
September 6, 2004... LET'S DISCUSS! PlanetEE's Discussion Forum lets you share views and opinions with other EE professionals on favorite topics.

Big Brother in the back seat: TripSense records your ride.(Editorial)
September 6, 2004... It was inevitable that insurance agencies would figure out how to tap into the data buzzing around a car's CAN bus and start collecting it to monitor driving. Progressive Insurance's new program certainly allows for collecting some valuable...

What's all this input impedance stuff, anyhow?(Pease Porridge)
September 6, 2004... A young teacher went to Temple. Several priests and pharisees asked him questions. They asked trick questions to try to fool him. The teacher very sweetly and correctly answered their many tricky questions. All those present were amazed at the...

ASIC technology: ready to tackle its next task.(POV: point of view)(Application Specific Integrated Circuits)
September 6, 2004... Ignore the propaganda. Reports of the ASIC market dying are greatly exaggerated. Suppliers of competitive IC solutions, led by the FPGA vendors, cite various reasons for this design platform's downfall: design starts are down, ASIC NRE costs...

Electronic fuse permits self-diagnosis, repair with little overhead.(Digital Technology)
September 6, 2004... One of the holy grails in design is a chip that can diagnose itself and then repair its own failed elements--the autonomic chip. To accomplish this, designers must embed some form of repair mechanism and redundant logic within the chip. To do...

POL converter use on the rise.(Digital Technology)
September 6, 2004... The increasing need for multiple voltages at higher current levels is changing the way designers distribute power around their circuit boards. More and more, distributed bus architectures (DBAs) are the choice, according to market research firm...

Seven-supplies-on-a-chip energize XScale processor-based products.(Analog & Power)
September 6, 2004... Consumer products that use Intel XScale microprocessors include third-generation smart cell phones, PDAs, and Internet appliances. To power XScale devices, Maxim designed the MAX1586A and B and the MAX1587. They integrate seven...

Three IC makers rise to multiple mobile-display lighting challenges.(Analog & Power)
September 6, 2004... Lighting in handheld portable devices continues to encourage innovation. For medium-size panels with cold-cathode fluorescent-tube backlights, Fairchild Semiconductor's FAN7310 full-bridge pulse-width modulation inverter/driver IC supports...

Dual 100-V Schottky doubles current handling.(Analog & Power)
September 6, 2004... With twice the current-handling ability (60 A) of typical dual-100-V Schottky rectifiers in the TO-220AB form factor, Vishay Intertechnology's MBR60100CT handles secondary rectification, freewheeling, and polarity protection tasks n 100- to...

DRAM enhancements accelerate servers, routers, and other systems.(Digital)
September 6, 2004... Two high-speed DRAM technologies developed by Elpida boost the performance of servers, network routers, PCs, and other IT infrastructure systems. Developed in cooperation with Hitachi Ltd., the first technology speeds route-finding in network...

USB keyfob packs 2 Gbytes of nonvolatile storage.(Digital)
September 6, 2004... > With up to 2-Gbyte storage capacity, the latest DoK (Disk on Key) USB 2.0 flash storage devices from M-Systems deliver the highest capacity combined with the fastest read and write speeds. The embedded DoK T5 ARM processor runs the company's...

72-bit wide dual-port RAMs deliver data at 24 Gbits/s.(Digital)
September 6, 2004... Two additional density options are now available in the FLEx72 family of high-bandwidth dual-port RAMs. The CYD09S72V and CYDO4S72V provide 4 and 9 Mbits of storage with dual 72-bit wide data ports. These two devices fill out the FLEx72 family,...

Constraint-driven PC-board tool boosts designers' productivity.(EDA)
September 6, 2004... As ever-evolving IC packages and multigigahertz signals present new pc-board design challenges, version 15.2 of Cadence's Allegro system interconnect design platform takes them on. With features that shorten the pc-board design cycle and...

FPGA tool suite welcomes new device families into the fold.(EDA)
September 6, 2004... Support for the LatticeECP-DSP and LaticeEC FPGA families is now included in version 4.1 of the ispLEVER design tools suite. The suite includes tools for design entry, project management, design fitting, place and route, floorplanning, device...

Magma's characterization and modeling tools.(EDA Roundup)
September 6, 2004... MODELING TOOLS now support Legend Design Technology's MSIM circuit simulator. Magma's SiliconSmart tools, combined with the Legend MSlM simulator, quickly deliver accurate nanometer libraries. SiliconSmart tools support sophisticated stimulus...

Nonvolatile memory IP.(EDA Roundup)
September 6, 2004... NONVOLATILE MEMORY UP from Kilopass Technology is the latest addition to the overall portfolio of Global UniChip, an SoC design foundry. The Kilopass' XPM nonvolatile memory technology lets customers access post-manufacturing programming of...

Optical MEMS powers WDM spectrum module: a wide-dynamic-range module is 10 times faster at half the size and cost of conventional fiber analyzers.(Leapfrog: first look: putting new technology in perspective)(Wave Division Multiplexing)(Microelectromechanical System)
September 6, 2004... The increasing use of wave-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical communications is taxing the capability of conventional WDM optical monitors to faithfully measure the spectrum of transmitted light. This is key to meeting quality-of-service (QoS)...

Network search engine hums with dual LA-1 ports: able to perform 266 million searches/s, the Ayama 20000 NSE uses dual LA-1 ports to divvy up the tasks between two NPUs for faster throughput.(Leapfrog: first look: putting new technology in perspective)
September 6, 2004... Thanks to two LA-1-compatible interface ports, the Ayama 20000 network search engine (NSE) can break through tough data-transfer bottle-necks as well as expand network processor headroom. The NSEs support commercial network processors,...

Serial digital cable drivers and adaptive cable equalizers.(Featured products)(Advertisement)
September 6, 2004... These products are an excellent general-purpose solution for high-speed, long-distance data transmission applications. High-speed serial digital cable driver with adjustable outputs The CLCO01 is a monolithic, high-speed cable driver...

Hundreds of megabits @ hundreds of meters: extending the transmission length for LVDS.(Design idea)(Low-Voltage Differential Signaling)(Advertisement)
September 6, 2004... Low-Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) is becoming the preferred differential interface standard as it delivers high data rates while consuming significantly less power than competing technologies. LVDS technology allows products to address...

Versatile N-channel FET synchronous buck regulator controllers for conversion from 3.3V.(Featured products)(Field Effect Transistors)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 6, 2004... The LM2743/44 are synchronous switching regulator controllers that provide 1A to 25A of output current with up to 95% conversion efficiencies. A fixed-frequency voltage-mode PWM control architecture is used, that is adjustable from 50 kHz to 2...

16 MHz to 40 MHz 10-bit SerDes chipset.(Featured products)(Advertisement)
September 6, 2004... The DS92LV1021A transforms a 10-bit wide parallel CMOS/TTL data bus into a single high-speed bus LVDS serial data stream with embedded clock. The compatible DS92LV1212A receives the bus LVDS serial data stream and transforms it back into a...

Fiber comes home: a cheaper version of the traditional optical network, the passive optical network is the ultimate bandwidth solution.(Technology Report/Passive Optical Networks)(Cover Story)
September 6, 2004... Fiber optical networks are what we would deploy today for combined telephone, TV, and Internet access if we were building a broadband communications systems from scratch. Optical networks have the bandwidth to handle any current application and...

Where are your keys?(Special Editorial Feature)(Editorial)
September 6, 2004... You're in the library. Panic sets in. They're missing. It might be your car keys or credit cards, but getting them back is imperative. Luckily, they're sitting on the last table you look at. Unless someone has you targeted for Mission:...

XScale network processor secures PC/104 SBC.(Embedded News)
September 6, 2004... The Mercury PC/104 single (SBC) packs a 533-MHz Intel IXP425 replete with hardware-accelerated encryption support. The board also includes up to 64 Mbytes of SDRAM, 32 kbytes of flash, and 256 kbytes of battery-backed-up SRAM. Communication...

Suite and toolkit forge integrated multiple OS development environment.(Embedded News)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Metrowerks' Code Warrior applies the developmental glue to Enea's new Orchestra package. Orchestra targets multiple-processor applications that employ Linux and the OSE real-time operating system (RTOS). This includes OSE's Link Handler...

64-bit choices: AMD's AMD64 and Intel's EMT-64 give developers options on a standard platform.(Microcontroller Series)
September 6, 2004... A common 64-bit architecture provides 32-bit backward compatibility. Minor incompatibilities that exist can be addressed by compiler and operating-system implementations. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took the lead with 64 bits and x86...

Communications, USB, and ethernet chips for everyone.(News)(Universal Serial Bus)
September 6, 2004... A flurry of new embedded interface devices from SMSC covers a range of connectivity interfaces, from the LAN9118 10/100 Non-PCI Ethernet Controller to the serial/parallel interface SIO 1000 Controller. Also included in the mix are three USB...

Novel interconnect scheme enhances comm design.(Design view: networking)
September 6, 2004... When it comes to interconnect in gigabit-speed communications equipment, engineers are discovering that what's good for the network is also good for the networking equipment. Over the last two decades, Ethernet has evolved from bus-based to...

Lossless DC overcurrent sensor uses saturable reactor.(Design briefs: innovative designs from readers)
September 6, 2004... To sense high dc currents, designers typically use shunt resistors or Hall-Effect-based current sensors. But shunt resistors are plagued by Joule ([I.sup.2]R) losses and the need to open the circuit where they must be inserted. And...

Gimmick capacitor stabilizes high-frequency op amps.(Design briefs: innovative designs from readers)
September 6, 2004... The stability of high-unity-gain-bandwidth op amps is susceptible to stray capacitances. Instability doesn't first show up as oscillation, but rather pronounced overshoot and ringing. Op amps such as the TLV278X, TLCO8X, and TLCO7X have...

Component specifier: the latest notable components at a glance.(New Products)
September 6, 2004... DISPLAYS/INDICATORS ED Online 8543 TYPE/Model Features DISPLAYS COLOR-LCD DRIVERS Move images at 15 frames/s; drive color DA8912A, DA8913A ...

Handheld calibrators satisfy lab and field applications.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * The UniCal rechargeable battery-operated handheld calibrators are designed to meet the needs of field and lab measurements. They can measure and simulate currents (in milliamperes), thermocouples, and resistance-temperature detectors (RTDs)...

Measuring receiver sets standard for RF and microwave calibration.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * The N5530S, successor to the company's 8902A for signalgenerator and attenuator calibration, sets new levels of precision for RF and microwave calibration. Featuring a 3-GHz (versus 1.3-GHz) frequency range, it can perform up to 26.5-GHz...

3U PXI switch module allows 512 crosspoint connections.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * The PXI-2532 ultra-high-density PXI module offers 512 crosspoint connections, the most for a 3U PXI slot. Designed for PXI-based ATE systems, it permits the creation of up to a 4-by-2176, one-wire matrix. When used with the PXI-6653...

RF power analyzer option expands GSM modulation measurements.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * An option to the company's model 2800 RF power analyzer expands the analyzer's capabilities to GSM transmission modulation measurements. The model 2800 features all tests required by GSM manufacturers, including frequency error, which...

Compact 5-Gbit/s jitter test module claims price/performance kudos.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * According to its maker, the 5-Gbit D J502 module is a platform independent jitter and timing system that's 250 times faster than the competition, yet costs only $33,000. Measuring just 3.8 by 4.2 by 1.1 in., it plugs directly into any...

Low-cost A/V card for SoC testers features 8 independent units.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * The Audio/Video 8 analog card is designed for the company's system-on-a-chip (SoC) series of testers. With eight independent units, it offers true parallel multisite testing. It reduces the cost of testing for cellular baseband and other...

Software package permits in-house HDMI compliance testing.(... Test & Measurement)
September 6, 2004... * The TDSHT3 high-performance oscilloscope software package provides automated in-house compliance testing for High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) products in accordance with the HDMI Compliance Test Specifications. It permits a wide...

Passive cooling handles 400-MHz Celeron PC/104-plus SBC.(... Embedded)
September 6, 2004... * By adding a hefty heatsink to a 400-MHz, ultra-lowvoltage (ULV) Intel Celeron, the SpacePC 4500 can run without active cooling. An extended-temperature (-40[degrees]C to 80[degrees]C) version is available. Up to 256 Mbytes of RAM is included...

Video adapter displays JPEGs.(... Embedded)
September 6, 2004... * The Model 622 PCI video adapter decompresses and displays JPEG files. It doesn't require a graphical user interface. Priced at $294, the Model 622 targets driving monitors and video recorders. A Windows dynamic-link library (DLL) comes with...

Long range wireless RS-232 via Bluetooth.(Product Alert)
September 6, 2004... LEMOS/INITIUM have developed a reliable easy to install, low cost, long range Bluetooth wireless serial communication link for the industrial, medical, commercial and consumer markets. The Promi-SD Class 1 allows long range of up to 1,200...

Celestica Bus Converter.(Product Alert)
September 6, 2004... Celestica Power Systems has expanded their Intermediate Bus Converter (IBC) Series with the QUS20-120 vertical mount quarter-brick and the HUS42-096 half-brick! Designed to address higher power needs than existing quarter-brick products,...

Welcome to your issue.(Editor's Overview)
September 13, 2004... At Electronic Design, we take EE professional issues seriously. After all, we're nowhere if we're not central to your design work and your career concerns. Our goal is to be your trusted source for both in-depth information on emerging...

Putting a face on our EE workforce.(Survey Overview)
September 13, 2004... In this special issue, the editors of Electronic Design take their second annual look at the current state of compensation for EEs, as well as the other factors that influence job satisfaction. The information appearing in this issue comes from...

Innovation, problem-solving ... and compensation keep EEs in the game: are you crazy? Many EEs might say yes. After all, what sane person would want to take on the pressures associated with having to solve complex problems every day? Who would want to contend with an influx of foreign workers combined with an outflow of jobs?(EE Job Satisfaction)
September 13, 2004... Add to that the impact of such issues as the economy and national security, and it would be reasonable to expect engineers to be more than a little sour about their lot in life. Yet 61% of this year's survey respondents feel adequately...

Now is the time to strategize the future of engineering: "if it works, it's obsolete." This quote from the late University of Toronto media professor Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s describes what electronics and computer engineers face every day.(The Future of EEs in America)
September 13, 2004... Short product life cycles. Fast turnarounds. A constant barrage of new information. A race to stay on top of technology while getting new products out the door. To win the race, America must lure college students into engineering. Otherwise,...

Engineering Hall of Fame.(2004 Honor Roll)
September 13, 2004... Once again, Electronic Design is proud to salute the EE profession with our Engineering Hall Of Fame. Here, we present the Class Of 2004 inductees. After lifetimes of accomplishments and accolades, these engineers also have earned perhaps the...

Tim Berners-Lee: the internet's creator looks to the next evolution.(Engineering Hall of Fame Featured 2004 Inductee)
September 13, 2004... Prior to the 1990s, the Internet was primarily the domain of scientists, government employees, academicians, and a few corporate users. The Internet started from the Department of Defense ARPANET project, a communications network of the...

Alex Lidow: making the world less power-hungry.(Engineering Hall of Fame Featured 2004 Inductee)
September 13, 2004... Imagine you needed a glass of water and the only way to fill it up was from a fire hydrant with a big, clunky valve. Sure, you'd get that glass filled with water--but the street would be filled as well. "In the good old days, transistors...

Jim Williams: a mover and shaker of all things analog.(Engineering Hall of Fame Featured 2002 Inductee)
September 13, 2004... Today, newborns will often fall asleep to sounds from radios, TVs, CDs, DVDs, etc. But 51 years ago, sleep wasn't in the equation when five-year-old Jim Williams' dad brought home a short-wave radio. It was a "seminal event," as he describes...

Carver Mead: a trip through four eras of innovation.(Engineering Hall of Fame Featured 2002 Inductee)
September 13, 2004... Largely due to a little boy's trips with his dad to a power plant, today we can enjoy digital cameras with high-quality photos, touchpad screens, fast and clear telecommunications, video recorders, the Internet, and tons of other technological...

Hall-of-famers ponder the future of electronics engineering: three design titans-Barrie Gilbert, Ted Hoff, and Bob Pease--give their take on where the EE profession is headed and why.(Engineering Hall of Fame Panel Discussion With Barrie Gilbert, Ted Hoff, Bob Pease)
September 13, 2004... Last month, Electronic Design brought together three off this industry's foremost designers and most respected thinkers to participate in an informal panel discussion about the future of engineering in America. The following is a summary of...

A day in the life of an electronics engineer.(Photo Essay Contest)
September 13, 2004... SENIOR ELECTRONIC DESIGN ENGINEER HARRY GIBBENS JR. OF ENOCH CORP. sent along this series of photos illustrating his work with junior test engineer Matt Tolman as they build an improved, more reliable test fixture rugged enough to withstand...

Moore's law marches forward.(Electronics Technology At Work And At Play)
September 20, 2004... Going one more with Moore's. That's the case with a 70-Mbit static random-access-memory (SRAM) chip packed with over 500 million transistors. Using 65-nm technology, this chip from Intel features gates that measure 35 nm with a 1.2-nm gate...

Underdog robot takes underwater competition.(Electronics Technology At Work And At Play)
September 20, 2004... The field included MIT and other seasoned specialists in engineering and marine technology. Yet Carl Hayden High School, a rookie team from the deserts of Phoenix, Ariz., grabbed first place in the Explorer class of the Third Annual ROV Design...

The global resource for electronics engineers.(PlanetEE.com)(Brief Article)
September 20, 2004... Aimed at electronics engineers and engineedng managers woddwide, PlanetEE serves as a gateway to the individual Web sites of the highly respected engineedng publications and specifier's tools of Penton Media's Electronics Group.

Don't miss the ASIC roundtable webcast!(PlanetEE.com)
September 20, 2004... September 28 at 10 a,m. PDT: REGISTER NOW for this informative discussion, "Selecting The Best ASIC Solution." De participants In our roundtable--Altera, AMI Semiconductor, Fujitsu, and LSI Logic--represent all the vadous design options, from...

New: find the latest on Power Products.(PlantEE.com)
September 20, 2004... Need a quick way to gnffier data on the latest power-related products and services from the wodd's leading vendors? Want to learn more about the latest introductions in power sources, power passives, power semi-conductors, and power products...

Magazines.(PlanetEE.com)
September 20, 2004... Access the Web sites of four leading publications in the EOEM community: Electronic Design EE Product News Microwaves & RF Wireless Systems Design

Surviving the hurricanes: trials of life without power.(Editorial)
September 20, 2004... As I write this, our technical editor Bob Milne is evacuating from his home in Edgewater, Fla., racing ahead of Hurricane Frances. We hope that Bob and all of his fellow Floridians got out on time, in front of Frances' fury. But evading the...

Bob's mailbox.(Pease Porridge)
September 20, 2004... Dear Bob: There's an error in your recent "Mailbox." * What you "heard" about the 555 timer is a bit off the mark. Your story mixed up the 555 with my work on semicustom ICs, which happened about the same time. If you want the actual story, you...

Full-system simulation: escape from reality.(POV: point of view)
September 20, 2004... A major transformation in complex system-level design is under way, as ever-increasing numbers of electronic systems are being implemented as software. The critical progression for the delivery of a typical working system has moved away from...

Environmentally friendly DVD writes data at 1x to 16x speeds.(Digital)
September 20, 2004... Writable DVDs have become a "hot" technology for many consumers. But nothing cools down their enthusiasm more than the long write times for 4.7-Gbyte disks. Now, Philips Optical Storage has unveiled a disk that can be written at speeds from 1x...

BTX, PCI Express, DDR2, and Serial ATA reshaping PCs.(The Industry)
September 20, 2004... PCs don't drive technology the way they used to. Yet significant developments in form factors, bus systems, motherboard specifications, storage interfaces, and memory type in the second half of 2004 will alter PC appearance and functionality,...

Workshop aids grant seekers.(The Industry)
September 20, 2004... A two-day workshop for engineers seeking federal funding will teach entrepreneurs how to "read between the lines" of government solicitations to win Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants. "SBIR Grants for the Curious Engineer in...

Hardware algorithm fine-tunes converters for best compression.(Analog & Power)
September 20, 2004... Future analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that implement Samplify Systems' latest algorithm could compress digitized, band-limited signals by adapting to the signals' bandwidth and dynamic range. With it, designers would be able to stream...

Versatile HDD preamp can take on many roles.(Analog & Power)
September 20, 2004... A low-power preamp for mobile notebook hard-disk drives (HDDs) lets manufacturers offer as much storage capacity in 2.5-in., 7200-rpm drives as is found in today's desktop PCs--without a battery-life penalty. Agere's PA7700 brings read/write...

Development board shortcuts FPAA-application design.(Analog & Power)
September 20, 2004... Designers or students who want to explore the possibilities of Anadigm's field-programmable analog arrays (FPAAs) can now do so with a development platform from Servenger LLC. The company's PAM-5000R Programmable Analog Module (PAM) is a...

Frequently asked questions: step-down regulators--part 1: the fundamentals.(Power Design FAQs)
September 20, 2004... What's a buck converter? A buck converter, or step-down voltage regulator, provides either isolated or non-isolated, switch-mode dc-dc conversion with the advantages of simplicity and low cost. The figure shows a simplified non-isolated...

Synchronous buck controllers support low output voltages for FPGAS, ASICS, and point-of-load applications.(Product Q&As)
September 20, 2004... The LM2742/43/44 comprise a family of synchronous buck controllers that drive external n-channel power MOSFETs. Although the control sections of these ICs are rated for 3 to 6 V, their driver sections are designed to accept input supply rails...

Network-services processor chip solves mounting bottleneck issues.(Communications)
September 20, 2004... As the Internet connections to local-area networks via edge devices have grown, the architecture of the overall system has become fragmented and difficult to manage. Other problems also have emerged, including duplicated functionality in...

Trio of chip introductions solves contemporary clock issues.(Communications)
September 20, 2004... Designers used to take the clock circuit in digital systems pretty much for granted. But speed-enriched systems that must work with multiple communications standards have turned the innocuous circuit into a major design hassle. Three new clock...

Wireless apps amp it up with E-pHEMT.(Communications)
September 20, 2004... Designated the MGA-425P8, Agilent's enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high-electron mobility transistor (E-pHEMT) power amplifier targets wireless equipment operating up to 10 GHz. This monolithic microwave IC (MMIC) can be used in 802.11a/b/g...

Power amp boosts output in 5-GHz 802.11a products.(Communications)
September 20, 2004... A new power amplifier for the 5-GHz band, which is used by the 802.11a wireless local-area network standard, is designed for access points, laptops, PCMCIA cards, and other devices using the 11a standard. Developed by SiGe Semiconductor,...

High availability and differentiated services come to network processors.(Communications)
September 20, 2004... THE NETWORK PROCESSING FORUM (NPF), an international industry consortium of networking semiconductor, software, and OEM equipment manufacturers, has added two new implementation agreements (Ias) to its growing list of network-processor...

WLAN instrument handles tough 802.11 a/b/g requirements.(Components & Test)
September 20, 2004... To meet stricter wireless local-area-network (WLAN) testing requirements at 2.5 and 5.0 GHz, LitePoint Corp. has introduced the IQflex 802.11 a/b/g instrument. The dedicated unit, based on the company's IQview 802.11 a/b/g WLAN test solution,...