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“The outlook for mobile handset markets continues to improve,” says Jake Saunders, ABI Research’s VP for Forecasting. “While 3Q-2009 showed a YoY 6.5 percent contraction in shipments to 291.1 million, 2009 should close out with only a 4 to 5 percent contraction (to 1,138 million for the year).” Handset...

Boonton , a Wireless Telecom Group (WTG) company, introduced its new PIM 31 precision analyzer for testing passive intermodulation of RF components and assemblies. Passive intermodulation is an unwanted mixing effect that is caused by non-linearity of passive components in RF paths, generated when two or more signals are...

Is the Lack of Fine-Pitch Probes and Fixtures Preventing Product Advancement? Recent advances in micro-probe technology may have broken through the roadblock to miniaturization. Durable, fine-pitch probes in sizes from 20 to 8 mils along with corresponding test fixtures support product miniaturization in cases where the electronic assemblies have...

Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a 27 to 34 GHz QFN packaged receiver with a noise figure of 2.5 dB and 13 dB conversion gain. This receiver, identified as XR1019-QH, integrates a low noise amplifier (LNA), image reject mixer and LO buffer amplifier within a fully molded 4x4 mm QFN...

A massive increase in international co-operation and significant investment in awareness-building and training are essential if the concept of an Internet of Things (IoT) is to be turned into a meaningful reality, says a European Union-funded project in its final report, RFID and the Inclusive Model for the Internet...

EADS Defence & Security (DS) and ESRI Deutschland GmbH have signed a cooperation contract to combine their expertise in the area of military situational awareness capabilities and geographical data processing. Their objective is to develop an OEM product (SitGIS) and an extension product (Copex Extension), which will be marketed...

Roke Manor Research Ltd. has launched what the company claims to be the world’s first commercial generic high voltage test facility. The new service can accommodate radio frequency power and voltage on a massive scale. It combines high voltage isolation with screening to 18 GHz, whereby most other facilities...

Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced that despite the continued weakness in the global semiconductor industry, it has for the second consecutive quarter achieved record financial results during Q3 2009. The company reported its highest ever quarterly revenue performance – NOK 133.1 million –...

The IEEE 802.16 working group is focused on developing standards for Broadband Wireless Access. As a part of this work, a physical layer specification has been written for mobile devices, 1 which uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) in combination with advanced techniques such as Adaptive Modulation and...

Operators are faced with the challenge of providing enough transmission capacity for the almost exponential demand in bandwidth from new data services, while constrained by a relatively modest increase in revenue from those services (see Figure 1 ). This additional bandwidth demand is not an issue for fiber optic...