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AS9100 Accreditation for C-MAC MicroTechnology

C-MAC MicroTechnology has been awarded AS9100, the leading aerospace Quality Management Systems accreditation, for its site in Great Yarmouth, UK. The award recognizes the company’s continued commitment to excellence, quality and reliability across a wide range of technologies and the full range of design, manufacturing and test activities that...
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Motorola’s Innovation Centers on Beijing

Motorola Inc. has officially opened its Innovation Center inside the company’s Wangjing Campus in Beijing, China, to showcase its latest products, technologies and solutions. This center is the company’s second in the Asia-Pacific region following the first in Singapore, which was established in 2007. These centers reflect Motorola’s efforts...
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Anaren Announces Design Win

Anaren Inc. announced, in unison with CSR , it has achieved a design win on CSR’s UniFi UF1050 b&g Wi-Fi chipset; optimized for the CSR application, the matched-balun approach results in a solution boasting 65 percent fewer discrete components even as it saves additional board space. Anaren’s “0404” balun...
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A Look Forward into LTE

While a large majority of owners use their mobile phones for voice calls and short message services (texting) only, a growing number are using bandwidth-hungry applications such as Web browsing, music downloads and streamed video. The current explosion in wireless data use has been fuelled partly by the introduction...
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Tackling UWB/WiMedia Measurement Challenges

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless is a rapidly growing technology that promises to revolutionize low power, short-range wireless applications. UWB has quickly emerged as the leading technology for Wireless Universal Serial Bus (W-USB). UWB radios differ from conventional narrowband radios and have a variety of specialized test demands. Enormous signal bandwidths,...
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Backhaul for WiMAX & LTE: High-bandwidth Ethernet Radio Systems

With the current deployment of high-bandwidth access networks happening at an ever-increasing pace, the need for efficient, high-bandwidth backhaul infrastructure becomes more and more relevant. In fact, the construction of these new access networks depends upon the backhaul network for both technical and financial performance. Today’s cellular networks typically...
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Literature Showcase

Free MIMO Poster This full-color poster from Agilent, “Ten Things You Should Know about MIMO,” presents MIMO operation and test methodologies, using specific examples to high-light the impact on the radio system or associated test. Visit www.agilent.com/find/mimo-forward to order a copy. Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA (800) 829-4444,...
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