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With just over a month to go it has been announced that one of the topics that will be addressed at the next ARMMS RF and Microwave Society Conference will be microwave components for use in satellite communications systems. During the two-day event, which will be held on Monday...

Gemalto and NXP have entered into an agreement whereby NXP will transfer its mobile services business to Gemalto. The related unit based in Sophia Antipolis, France, will continue to develop and market software and service solutions compliant with the MIFARE4Mobile™ interface specifications, which manage MIFARE™ based applications in Near...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in data-conversion technology, introduced a pair of 14-bit DACs that perform direct digital synthesis for signals up to 3.6 GHz. These high performance converters extend ADI’s TxDAC® family of transmit digital-to-analog converters by delivering an unmatched combination of usable bandwidth and effective dynamic...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, introduced a suite of front-end modules (FEM) with breakthrough power control performance for quad band cellular handsets. The unique power control scheme is based on a coupler detector...

California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) is now shipping its MeshConnect™ ZigBee radio module, adding to its rapidly growing line of ZigBee®/IEEE 802.15.4 transceiver solutions. The module, based on CEL’s own MeshConnect single chip integrated circuit (IC), is unique in its ability to deliver market-leading RF performance and range with a...

The Embedded World 2009 Exhibition and Conference that took place in Nürnberg, Germany from 3 to 5 March seemed relatively oblivious to the current economic turndown. At the time of writing official attendance figures were not available, but with 704 exhibitors representing a 4 per cent increase on 2008...

TriQuint Semiconductor , an RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced that it has fulfilled initial production orders from Northrop Grumman Corp. to support the F-35 Lightning II fire control radar system. The F-35, also referred to as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), is being developed by...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, continues to expand its Power Detector product line to include an extensive range of industry-leading RMS Power Detectors, Logarithmic Detectors and SDLVAs that cover the entire 50 Hz to 20 GHz frequency range with...

In the last decade, mobile phones have become an integral part of our life. Up to one billion new mobile phones are shipped each year by manufacturers. Newly introduced features and smaller form factors of mobiles require less current consumption from a battery. Battery technologies are getting more advanced,...

Virtualization on mobile handsets will improve phone security and stability, and increase the number of applications available to users, according to a new report, “Mobile Handset Virtualization Becoming Reality” from the Strategy Analytics Handset Components Technologies service. Virtualization—using software to emulate native hardware, so that operating systems and other...