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Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) collaborated with industry leading programmable-logic vendor Xilinx Inc. to introduce a radio architecture development platform that helps multi-carrier cellular base station manufacturers reduce engineering resources and improve time to market. ADI’s MS-DPD (mixed-signal, digital pre-distortion) development platform simplifies the wireless infrastructure design process by allowing...

Teledyne Technologies Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of custom electronic components and systems, announced that it has acquired Labtech Microwave , a leader in custom microwave packaging solutions and microwave components, as part of the acquisition of Intelek plc. Labtech Microwave Packaging Group, founded in...

Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Inc. have entered into an agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets for $1.2 B in cash. The companies expect to complete closing activities by the end of 2010, subject to customary closing conditions including...

Roke Manor Research claims to have developed the world’s first 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell capability. Using picoChip ’s technology as the development platform, Roke’s reference design has a 40 km range, which delivers more than 40,000 times the area covered by most other femtocells. It is also said...

The United States still trails much of the world in broadband development, ranking 23rd on the list of the top 57 countries, according to rankings released this week by analyst firm Strategy Analytics. South Korea holds on to the title of the world’s most advanced broadband market. Hong Kong,...

When designing an electronic system, it is important that it function as intended; this requires an understanding of many aspects of EMC including signal integrity (SI). One of the principal ways we can learn to understand SI is by knowing where our currents are flowing, as they move from...

They go by many marketing names: Single RAN, Uni-BTS, Multi-RAN, Multi-standard Radio. But they all mean essentially the same thing: relatively simple upgrades that allow a single standard base station to support multiple technologies. The next few years will see a rapidly growing – although possibly short-lived – wave...

2011 will be the year when LTE goes live in a big way, as Verizon in the United States and DoCoMo in Japan will begin wide-scale roll-outs by the end of 2010. ABI Research Analyst Bhavya Khanna reports, “132 networks have reported trials or plans to launch LTE commercially,...