Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has introduced several new, highly ...
Tags: upconverters, downconverters, converters
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced highly integrated front-end modules enabling 802.11ac connectivity in smartphones and tablets. IEEE ...
Microchip has developed a capacitive contactless identification system that relies on near-field effects around the human body. A $1 fob or token, carried about a person, sets up a field that extends to the wearers fingertips, allowing ...
Tags: Body's Electric, Microchip, contactless identification system
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) for a new 802.11ac router manufactured by a Japan ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
Tags: RFMD, GaAs, Smartphones, Samsung Galaxy
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
Tags: Skyworks, SkyOne platform, transceiver
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced multiple new products to its portfolio of envelope tracking (ET) power management and power amplifier (PA) ...
Qualcomm, with its 50% share of the baseband processor and application processor markets and 86% share of the FDD-LTE modem market, is entering the LTE RF front-end market with a chip-set which works across all the 40 different frequency ...
Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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An aid to selecting a microcontroller with high-resolution analogue/digital converters for measurement systems and metering designs by Ralf Hickl The quality of analogue peripherals on microcontrollers has risen constantly. It allows for ...
Tags: microcontroller, measurement systems, switching solutions
For full-year 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $112.6m, down 26.3% on 2011’s $152.8m. However, although down 16.5% on $36.5m a ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the AWB7224 small-cell power amplifier (PA), optimized to deliver a combination of efficiency, linearity, output power ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has introduced two new high-performance Multi-band, Multi-mode Power Amplifiers (MMPAs). The highly integrated MMPAs support more ...
On 26 February at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (1–5pm at the Barcelona Mandarin Oriental), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes gallium nitride (GaN) RF components, and fabless semiconductor firm Eta Devices ...
Tags: Cree, Eta, Record-Efficiency Power Amplifier, Mobile Base-Stations
Maxim Integrated Products has announced it latest small cell RF transceiver which supports all 3G and 4G LTE frequency bands. The company believes small cell basestations will play a strategic part in the rollout of 4G services both ...
Tags: MWC, Multi-Band LTE, Small Cells