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Chipcon, a designer of short-range, low power wireless transceiver devices, has been acquired by Texas Instruments (TI) Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $200 M. At the time of going to press the transaction was expected to be completed during January 2006. Under the agreement Chipcon, which employs...

The Enhanced Wireless Consortium indicated last month that its proposals for the draft 802.11n standard are now substantially aligned with the work of the IEEE’s working group. This is good news for most of the stakeholders in the process. ABI Research has reported on this process before, most notably...

Alcatel announced it has signed a subcontract with M/A-COM Inc., a leader in critical communications technologies, to equip the State of New York with an advanced public safety communications network to enhance communications interoperability among public safety first responders. The Statewide Wireless Network, for which M/A-COM will act as...

Wireless mesh networking looks set to achieve a stellar growth rate by the end of the decade, but most of the growth will be in market segments not served by existing infrastructures. According to a new study from ABI Research, the increase will mostly come from deployment by alternative...

Near Field Communications (NFC) applications will transform consumer commerce, connectivity and content consumption, beginning with trials through 2006 and volume deployments into 2007, according to a new study from ABI Research. NFC, a short-range contactless communication protocol, enables easy-to-use, secure Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity between devices. It provides high...

Phaselock Techniques, Third Edition Floyd M. Gardner Wiley-Interscience • 447 pages; $84.95 ISBN: 0-471-43063-3 The first edition of this book was published in 1966 and the second in 1979. Phaselock was an unimaginably exotic subject in 1966, with limited applications and few practitioners. Now phaselocking is a mature subject....

Industry News On October 21st, 2005, Bill Reich , marketing and communications manager for Narda Microwave East, an L3 Communications company, passed away at the age of 62. A Narda employee for 25 years, Reich initially headed the organization’s publications department, and later oversaw the company’s sales activities. “Bill...

Data Sheet This data sheet provides complete detail on the company’s epitaxial MOCVD wafers that are designed for defense and commercial markets. The growth area is class 10,000 and houses production and small volume reactors. Reactors are outfitted to grow InP- and GaAs-based materials on 2 to 4 inch...

EMC Test Software The model SW1006 is the latest version of the company’s radiated susceptibility, conducted immunity and precompliance emissions software. Model SW1006 automatically performs both calibration and immunity testing in full compliance with IEC 61000-4-3, 4-6, MIL-STD 461/462 RS103, CS114, RTCA/DO160 Section 20 specifications. The software also supplies...

Subsurface prospecting by ground penetrating radar (GPR) is of interest in several applications, 1 including civil engineering, 2 cultural heritages 3 and sub-services detection. A GPR usually works in time domain, transmitting an electromagnetic pulse that, by interacting with the objects buried in the investigated soil, gives rise to...