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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced its intent to work with the developers of the wireless technology commonly known as ultra-wideband (UWB) to combine strengths of both technologies. This decision will allow Bluetooth technology to extend its long-term roadmap to meet the high speed demands of synchronizing and...

Chase card services announced that it is introducing “Blink,” a new faster, easier way to pay, using RFID chips and contactless payment systems. With the Chase Blink announcement, the North American contactless payment market-starting gun has sounded and the race to redefine cashless payments is on. Erik Michielson, ABI...

While SOHO/home WLAN equipment shipment volumes have increased strongly since Apple first launched its AirPort line of 802.11b-compliant consumer WLAN gear in 2000, prices have eroded sharply over the past several years, and few vendors are making much money in the market segment at present, reports In-stat. The SOHO/consumer...

The WiMedia Alliance and the MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group, or MBOA-SIG, recently announced the two groups’ merger. Although the entity will often be referred to as WiMedia-MBOA, the entity will operate officially as the WiMedia Alliance Inc. The merged group is designed to take advantage of the...

Digital Communication Over Fading Channels, Second Edition Marvin K. Simon and Mohamed-Slim Alouini Wiley-Interscience 934 pages; $195 ISBN: 0-471-64953-8 Like its predecessor, this second edition discusses in detail, coherent and non-coherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in...

Product Catalog This product catalog features the company’s advanced antenna systems. It highlights new products including the Phased Beamer;™ modular phased array panels, Edge-of-Space Gateway;™ SatCom antenna system with orbital down conversion and UniScan Direct;™ and a real time airport security RF imaging scanner, all based on the company’s...

CRO/SAW (coupled-resonator oscillator/surface acoustic wave) resonator-based oscillators are widely used as reference sources in phase-locked loop (PLL) applications, since the technology features very low phase noise at fixed frequencies to beyond 3 GHz. CRO/SAW oscillators are also known for high quality factor (Q) and low phase-noise performance. Unfortunately, CRO/SAW...

RF and microwave multifunction boards are getting more complicated, while development schedules are getting shorter to meet time-to-market requirements. In this evolving development process, there is usually not enough time to test the individual blocks, and the feasibility for full deterministic analysis of the whole board is low, especially...

Simulation software is becoming more widespread in a number of industries, and the field of microwave design is no exception. The ability to create virtual prototypes has enabled designers to not only reduce the lead time on new designs, but also to try out new concepts that would otherwise...

In the fiercely competitive GSM phone terminal market, terminal manufacturers have come to expect solutions that expedite their development and cycle times. Coupled with the new feature-rich handsets with mega-pixel cameras, Bluetooth® technology and multimedia functions, designers are demanding smaller and more integrated modules that consume less board space...