Wireless Design & Development articles from September 2008

Wireless Design & Development archives from September 2008

Cellular M2M: generates profit and business opportunities.(UP FRONT)(machine to machine)
September 1, 2008... M2M can be described as a three letter abbreviation with multiple meanings. To some, it can mean "mobile to mobile" or "mobile to machine." For the purposes of this discussion, it means "machine-to-machine", and relates to the remote...

RF modular instruments offer flexible wireless measurements.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] National Instruments' RF vector signal analyzer, RF vector signal generator and PXI Express 18-slot chassis offer flexible RF measurements up to 10x faster than traditional RF instrumentation. These software-defined...

PMC provides advanced graphics and imaging capabilities simultaneously.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Based on the ATI M9 graphics processor, the M590 Multi-standard Graphics and Video PMC, available from Aitech Defense Systems, uses dual independent graphics heads to simultaneously output information from two separate data streams to two...

2.5" Hard disc drives feature high capacity.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) announces its 200 GB-per-platter 5,400 rpm hard disc drives (HDD) which provide high HDD capacity at 400 GB for integration into mobile PCs. In addition, a family of high-end...

RF subsystem reduces space, cost and design time.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skyworks Solutions, Inc. unveils its highly integrated RF subsystem for GSM, GPRS and EDGE femtocell base stations and cellular repeaters. The RF subsystem supports femtocell base station and cellular repeaters in...

Wireless integrated circuits perform in management systems.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lansdale Semiconductor, Inc. announces single-source rights to three wireless ICs originally designed and built by Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Lansdale will globally market and manufacture Freescale's product lines...

Tantalum capacitor series protects against short circuits.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AVX Corporation's TAW Series is a family of fused tantalum capacitors that features an internal fuse to protect against short circuits and damaging high DC leakage currents. Manufactured using thin film technology,...

Driver amplifiers target 18 to 33 GHZ frequencies.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... Avago Technologies announces its AMMC/P-6333 linear power amplifier. This high-performance driver amplifier has high gain and power coupled with optimal input and output return losses. These amplifiers are built to allow design engineers to...

Wi-Fi/WiMax triplexer uses embedded passive components.(PRODUCT NEWS: WHAT'S HOT)
September 1, 2008... Jacket Micro Devices, Inc. (JMD) announces its Wi-Fi/WiMax triplexer that uses embedded passive components in organic laminates. It allows a single antenna to be shared for devices that operate in the 2.4 to 2.5 GHz and 5 GHz WLAN bands and the...

Selecting the right mixer for your application: when purchasing a part from a catalog, engineers may sometimes need to sacrifice guaranteed performance over their specific range.(EYE ON MIXERS)
September 1, 2008... In spite of advances in digital processing components enabling direct digital conversion at higher frequencies, heterodyne architectures are still often required to meet stringent spur performance and tight blocking specs, or coverage over...

Assessing the IC issues & challenges facing 4G base station architects: the IC choices architects make today will determine how they will be able to weather the coming storm of 4G wireless networks.(Cover story)
September 1, 2008... Over the next five years, the wireless industry will confront a perfect storm of technical and economic challenges as it attempts to bring the benefits of fourth generation (4G) wireless technology to users around the world. [ILLUSTRATION...

Brainstorm.(WAP SECURITY)
September 1, 2008... Welcome to Brainstorm! There are definite concerns over how secure WAP is as a technology and whether it is robust enough to implement applications with stringent security requirements. Q: What are some of the security concerns of WAP?...

Addressing the design and verification challenges of long term evolution: design simulation can be useful in addressing LTE design and verification challenges but requires consideration in selecting the appropriate model abstraction for the given phase of the design cycle.(TESTING LTE: DESIGN TALK)
September 1, 2008... Emerging standards such as 3GPP Long Term Evolution present a number of design and verification challenges for system engineers. Some examples include determining design requirements and specifications for new hardware designs, evaluating...

User-programmable FPGAs improve wireless test applications: as wireless standards continue to evolve, software-defined test systems will continue to evolve with them.(FPGAS IN TEST)
September 1, 2008... As the proliferation of wireless standards continues, the idea of using software-defined measurement capability has become a necessity as opposed to a matter of preference. The days of purchasing a new box to test a new standard are simply...

Cavity filters use EM software.(PRODUCT FOCUS: FILTERS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MtronPTI's WIMAX cavity filter series utilizes a re-configurable design platform fully modeled in EM (electronlagnetic) simulation software in passband center frequencies from 2.30 to 2.70 GHz and a bandwidth range...

Power quality filters offer low harmonic distortion.(PRODUCT FOCUS: FILTERS)(Schaffner EMC Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Schaffner's FN 3410 and FN 3412 Series ECOsine[TM] power quality filters reduce total harmonic current distortion (THID) to less than 5% in three-phase power electronics with six-pulse rectifier front ends, such as...

Design complex filters without writing software.(PRODUCT FOCUS: FILTERS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Quickfilter Technologies. Inc. has released QuckfilterPro-4A Software, version 4.0. The software is used to design filters that will be implemented in Quickfilter's QF4A512 programmable signal converter IC. Version...

Common mode filter performs on display port interfaces.(PRODUCT FOCUS: FILTERS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TDK's TCM 1210U-500-2P common mode filter works as an EMI counter measure on DisplayPort interfaces, and suppresses EMI noise on DisplayPort connections between computers or audiovisual equipment and display monitors...

Filter accommodates DC/DC converters.(PRODUCT FOCUS: FILTERS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beta Dyne's PFL4000 EMI filter meets MIL-STD-461E requirements for DC/DC converters from 5 to 100 W. The device offers 99.5% efficiency, MTBF of 47.6 million hours and six-sided shielding in a range from 15 to 100 V....

VXS backplane offers Star routing topology.(PRODUCT NEWS)(Elma Bustronic Corporation)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Elma Bustronic Corporation announces its eight-slot VXS backplane that features a Star routing topology, fitting into most 4U high horizontal mount enclosures. The VITA 41.0-specified backplane features one hub slots...

Low-power ICs support per-channel enable controls.(PRODUCT NEWS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STMicroelectronics announces six devices in a series of clock-distribution ICs that provide per-channel output-enable controls for precision clock management in embedded and handheld applications. The two-channel...

Switches exhibit failsafe functions.(PRODUCT NEWS)(Ducommun Technologies, Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ducommun Technologies, Inc. announces its 2N Series of SPDT switches that features N connectors and a frequency range of DC to 12.4 GHz, and the 2NH Series that features high power N connectors and a frequency range...

USB connectors target surface mount applications.(PRODUCT NEWS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mill-Max expands its USB family to include two mini USB connectors that offer more options when smaller solutions are necessary. Designed for surface mount applications, they are smaller and lighter than existing USB...

WiMAX test system covers RF pre-certification testing.(PRODUCT NEWS)
September 1, 2008... AT4 wireless launches its WiMAX test system which covers RF pre-certification testing. The MINT T2100 provides upgrade capabilities to the protocol conformance tester (PCT) and the Radio Conformance t\Tester (RCT). It also provides Radiated...

High-linearity broadband LNAs offer optimal IP3 headroom.(PRODUCT NEWS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Endwave Corporation releases three high-linearity broadband low-noise amplifiers which preserve signal purity by minimizing the nonlinear contributions. These amplifiers simultaneously achieve several high...

S-band VCO features low phase noise.(PRODUCT NEWS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Z-Communications, Inc. announces its RoHS-compliant, voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) Model CRO2905A-LF in S-band. It operates at 2905 MHz (single frequency) with a tuning voltage range from 0.5 to 4.5 V DC. This...

Software delivers IC package modeling tools.(PRODUCT NEWS)
September 1, 2008... Daat Research Corporation announces the addition of powerful tools for modeling lC packages into its Coolit v.8 CFD thermal analysis software. The tools build detailed parametric chip models that can be converted to compact models, and the user...

8.6 version meets parallel programming challenge.(TECHNOLOGY AWARD: SEPTEMBER 2008 WDD EDITOR'S CHOICE)
September 1, 2008... National Instruments" LabVIEW 8.6 is the latest version of the graphical system design software platform for control, test and embedded system development. Building on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming, LabVIEW 8.6 delivers...