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Is Sirius Serious? (19/01/2006)

... can only offer a few channels of lower quality video without sacrificing audio content and quality. Video-compatible radios will also be considerably more expensive than existing devices, not to mention the competition, namely from satellite TV ...

MaxStream’s ZigBee/802.15.4 Modules Provide Easy Integration (19/01/2006)

... to take advantage of this emerging wireless standard. The XBee family of wireless ZigBee modules and stand-alone radios create flexible low-power communications networks that feature all the benefits of the ZigBee standard, coupled with easy ...

Intel Debuts CMOS WLAN Transceiver (17/01/2006)

... Intel's scheme is easy to implement and correctly separates the effects, improving yields and lowering the cost of these radios, the chipmaker claimed."This system-in-a-package design uses more low-voltage circuitry than we've ever used in the ...

The two-horse race of logic analysis (17/01/2006)

... the measurement tool is finding new applications, including dissecting the logic waveforms that drive digital modulation radios.The list of manufacturers of test equipment for use in the development of electronic products is not a very long ...

Testing Infrared's Limits (17/01/2006)

... out at about 1 Mbps in its current generation. IR components are also about one-fifth the cost compared to Bluetooth radios, he notes."Doing that [transfer] through the service provider network – which was the original assumption, I think, ...

Integrated Optics Drive Fiber-to-the-Home Solutions (16/01/2006)

... their device "replaces obsolete/expensive/large/power-hungry technologies, much like the transistor-based portable radios replaced the vacuum tube radios, therefore enabling their widespread deployment."A 10-Gb/sec laser source is impressive, ...

Intel Debuts CMOS WLAN Transceiver (13/01/2006)

Necessity is Indeed the Mother of Invention (13/01/2006)

... that support Bluetooth. BTW 5.0 includes many new features that enable a PC to intelligently support multiple Bluetooth radios within a single device, allowing the user to decide whether to use an embedded radio or an add-on dongle for particular ...

DSPs Off to Slow Start in '05, Forward Concepts Says (12/01/2006)

... the whole sector.DSP shipments to the automotive market rose 20 percent in Q1 because of dashboard electronics for radios, stereos and navigation, while safety, control and power train apps are still relatively small parts of that ...

Mill-Max Offers Eight Sizes of Spring-Loaded Modular Contacts (11/01/2006)

... connectors are typically used as the base unit (battery/charger) interface for portable equipment such as mobile phones/radios, bar code readers, medical and test instruments. They can also be used as a rugged surface-to-surface connector between ...

Receiver Sensitivity: Too Much of a Good Thing? (11/01/2006)

... sensitivity is sometimes touted as the miracle cure for improved distance and low power consumption in unlicensed radios for OEM use. Claims of receiver sensitivities of -110 dB providing up to ten times the distance of industry average radios ...

Bluetooth/UWB merger will take time (11/01/2006)

... big thing here is that the Bluetooth SIG is creating an architecture that allows users to employ other radios side by side with profiles it has published," says Martin Rofheart, director of UWB operations at Freescale. Consumers would have the ...

LIN simplifies and standardizes in-vehicle networks (11/01/2006)

... line up to a maximum of 10 nF per bus, which results in a system time constant of 1 to 5 µsec. In a region in which AM radios still proliferate, SAE-J2602's 10.4-kbps limitation further eases compatibility issues for the North American ...

TSR: Enabling a Seamlessly Connected Wireless Future (11/01/2006)

... radio technology is subject to the same distortion problems and frequency agility limitations as conventional analog radios.3. TSR. In True Software Radio (TSR), wireless signals are converted from analog to digital (for the receiver) or ...

Sine construction: DDSs form precision oscillators (11/01/2006)

... structure is remarkably versatile, given its simplicity, having found use in applications as diverse as automotive radios, data-communications systems, and medical imagers. Just as diverse are the forms NCOs take: IP (intellectual property), ICs, ...

RF Kits Make Waves (10/01/2006)

... or transfer data to a network, someone sells a kit that can give you a hand. RF devices in these kits range from simple radios to wireless modules that supply communication stacks, and general-purpose I/O lines, and that accept simple control ...

Have the foundries caught up? (10/01/2006)

... were third-string players in the chip business, pumping out cheap, trailing-edge chips in high volume for clock radios and such. But as we entered the submicron era of semiconductors, that began to change—the rise in complexity, and consequently ...

Cars Head Home (13/12/2005)

... with a vehicle," says Senior Analyst Dan Benjamin of ABI Research in Oyster Bay, NY.Most predict that navigation and radios will no longer be housed in separate boxes. "You won't see many standalone navigation systems any more," Fortman ...

The wild, wild west (13/12/2005)

... you took out the downturns, it was OK.Overall, it's really been a great ride. Thirty years ago, only televisions and radios had electronics in them. There were no microwave ovens, no cell phones, no personal computers, no DVDs—and now they're ...

Handsets reach a crossroads (13/12/2005)

... and carriers keep adding new features. The opportunities appear almost endless to supply new and better processors, radios, storage devices and other parts. That story line is just fine with component vendors; with more than 700 million handsets ...

Premier coal mine: the future burns brightly (2/12/2005)

... to 15 years.A supporting Computer Aided Earthmoving System uses on-board computers, GPS software as well as data radios and receivers to transmit planning designs wirelessly to operators so they can see where they are relative to the design ...

New WLAN test set (1/12/2005)

... proving.The MT8860B replaces existing test systems that typically require power meters, spectrum analysers and Gold Radios with external attenuators.The result is a test instrument that is faster to integrate in to production, offers a ...

IrDA: The forgotten wireless technology (28/11/2005)

... within their range but also with other devices using the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band, such as 802.11 radios, cordless phones and microwave ovens.And being radio-based, RF products are subject to Federal Communications ...

Handsets reach a crossroads (15/11/2005)

1W radio modem (14/11/2005)

... it easy to integrate robust wireless networks that are capable of communicating at up to 1W EIRP.The 915-928MHz band radios offer a variable power output between 1mW and 1W, allowing customised networks to be able to achieve desired ranges and ...

Vibration more than a pain in backside (10/11/2005)

... and orientation. Cabin layout needs to be considered by the mine operator when retrofitting equipment such as site radios and information data screens because they may clash with the ergonomic designed layout by the OEM.Situation awareness. ...

3-chip transceiver solution (8/11/2005)

... is fed to the compact single ended PA.“Linearity is suitable for the high order QAM modulation required in new radios to maximise spectrum usage. The useful bandwidth of the receiver and transmitter is 10GHz to 18GHz, flat from 11GHz to 17GHz, ...

Intelligent radio smart move for UWB makers (4/11/2005)

... (UWB) technology to satisfy the emerging international regulations could stand to benefit from a market for cognitive radios. The latest moves from regulators indicate that so-called detect and avoid technology will be made mandatory globally, ...

Family of 8- and 16-port I/O expanders (3/11/2005)

... essential for extending battery life in mobile applications such as mobile phones, PDAs, mobile computers and satellite radios.Used to provide general I/O expansion, these products can drive display and keypad backlights, function and status ...

High-performance dual-radio AP-5131 access point (28/10/2005)

... WLAN performance and secure connectivity of wired clients.The AP-5131 is available with two dual-band radios to support simultaneous high-bandwidth data and voice services or a combination of data, voice, and full-spectrum rogue access point ...