EDN India - Communication Functions

Laird Expands Antenna Product Line

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Laird Technologies Inc. has expanded its patented Phantom antenna product line with the addition of the new TRA3513 antenna series, which covers the frequency range of 351MHz-366MHz. Measuring only 3.5in ....

Anite Simplifies LTE Development Testing

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Anite has announced the availability of Scenario Mode, an enhancement to its Development Toolset suite for wireless device and chipset development that allows test engineers to rapidly design test scenarios ....

High-power RFIC Shipments to Reach 10M Units in 2011

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

ABI Research�s optimistic forecasts for the penetration of high-powered RF integrated circuits into the mobile wireless base station market continue to be borne out by the latest market developments, ....

Nordic, Broadcom Develop Bluetooth 4.0 Device

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced successful wireless communication tests between a prototype design for a small, low-cost Bluetooth low energy proximity fob and Broadcom�s BCM4330, the industry�s ....

TI Base Station SoCs Integrate mimoOn LTE PHY

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

mimoOn is collaborating with Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) for 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software, with TI's KeyStone multicore architecture-based TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614 system-on-chips (SoCs) integrating ....

NXP Leads Global ID Market

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

NXP Semiconductors has extended its lead in the global Identification market, after eight quarters of consecutive growth in total sales across all market segments using Identification technologies. In ....

R&S Divests Mobile Radio Systems Business

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG recently divested its professional mobile radio systems subdsidiary Rohde & Schwarz Professional Mobile Radio GmbH (PMR) to Hytera Communications Co. Ltd, one of largest ....

Tablet Teardowns Reveal iPad Design Advantages

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

In the 15 months since the introduction of the iPad, competitive tablet manufacturers still can�t match the design efficiency of Apple Inc.�s groundbreaking product, according to an IHS iSuppli Teardown ....

Floating-point-DSP Family Adds Processors and Software

Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

Texas Instruments has added the single-core TMS320C6671 to its TMS320C66x family of floating-point DSPs. The device increases clock speed to 1.25GHz and is pin- and software-compatible with other members ....

Readying for 20nm

Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800

The industry is all set for 20nm tape-out. Last June Synopsis and STMicroelectronics announced that the R&D collaboration between them to develop an SoC design using ST 20nm process technology, co-developed ....