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January 2012 [Industry News] Fabless Venture Targets Connectivity Chips Incorporating IEEE 802.15.6 Abingdon, England: Low-power wireless-communications company, Toumaz, has set up a new fabless subsidiary called Toumaz Microsystems. January 2012 [Industry News] Company Profiles Toumaz develops wireless technologies for a range of markets including medical monitoring and Internet-connected consumer devices. 50th Anniversary Issue [Industry News] From Dafty To Genius Inconceivable yet true: James Maxwell was nicknamed “Dafty” in his early school days. November 2011 [Industry News] Advances Drive LTE And Home Networks As RF Transmitted Data Gets Security Boost Self-organizing-network (SON) features are an integral part of fourth-generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. November 2011 [Industry News] Protect RF-Activated Data As data stored in RF credentials becomes more valuable, efforts to crack, counterfeit, and duplicate cards and credentials will increase. November 2011 [Industry News] Gateway Reference Design Simplifies Home Automation Also in Germany, Dialog Semiconductor has debuted its SmartPulse IP-gateway reference design. October 2011 [Industry News] EM Analysis Software Speeds Design While Beefing Up FDTD Simulation Oxford, England: Cobham Technical Services has debuted a new version of its Concerto electromagnetic (EM) design software for RF and microwave applications. September 2011 [Industry News] Module Design Enables GPS And GLONASS Reception While Software Collaboration Targets Small Cells NEUBIBERG, GERMANY: The new front-end receiver modules from Infineon Technologies promise to simplify the addition of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionality in smartphones and other handheld devices. According to the firm, the three devices in the BGM103xN7 series are the first modules to support either the separate or simultaneous reception of Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) and... September 2011 [Industry News] PHY Software Targets LTE Small-Cell Market DUISBURG, GERMANY: A collaboration on 3GPP-compliant LTE physical-layer (PHY) software has been forged between Texas Instruments and mimoOn, a specialist in LTE software licensing for software-defined-radio (SDR) platforms. TI will now offer PHY software for LTE Release 8 and 9 for its KeyStone multicore architecture—with a specific focus on its TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614 system- on-chip (SoC) devices. Those SoCs are specifically ... August 2011 [Industry News] Band-Aid Heart Monitor Makes Easy Work Of ECGs While Collaborations Advance Communications OSLO, NORWAY: To support low-cost, continuous electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) heart monitoring, a clinical-grade wireless cardiac monitor is now commercially available from British medical-services specialist Isansys Lifecare. The HRV011 is similar to a bandage strip that adheres to the patient (see figure). It promises to analyze... August 2011 [Industry News] Nokia And CSR Collaborate CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, and San Jose, CA: Thanks to a licensing agreement, Nokia Corp. can now incorporate CSR’s aptX Bluetooth audio-compression technology into its consumer-electronics products. Using CSR aptX technology and associated CSR Bluetooth audio chips, Nokia expects to introduce a range of Bluetooth audio accessories in the fourth quarter of this year. Standard Bluetooth technology offers the ability to wirelessly stream stereo audio from handsets ... August 2011 [Industry News] lTE PHY Software Runs On TI SoCs Duisburg, Germany: Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) software-licensing specialist mimoOn is collaborating with Texas Instruments on 3GPP-compliant LTE physical-layer (PHY) software. July 2011 [Industry News] Forum Awards Recognize Technical Progress As Femtocell Global Deployment Grows 60% THE FEMTOCELLS World Summit witnessed the first demonstration of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) small cell operating in an end-to-end system with commercially available user equipment (UE) and core network equipment. The demo was staged jointly by Cavium, Continuous Computing, and Picochip. It showed interoperability among the Picochip PC960x LTE smallcell solution, which incorporates... July 2011 [Industry News] Femtocell Services See 60% Growth Rate In a presentation given at the Femtocells World Summit, Informa Telecoms & Media reported that there are now in excess of 2.3 million 3G femtocells globally compared to 1.6 million 3G macrocells. Worldwide, commercial femtocell services have reached a total of 31, which represents over 60% growth in deployments in the past quarter alone. This market growth is reflected in the fact that 8 of the top 10 mobile operator groups (by revenue) now offer femtocell services. Those mobile... June 2011 [Industry News] Wireless Modules Move Forward But Retain Backward Compatibility OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND: Short-range radio technologists Low Power Radio Solutions (LPRS) have added new features to the easyRadio Advanced (eRA) low-power wireless modules. Amongst the new design elements is a facility that allows users to change the bandwidth of the radio from 150 kHz to as low as 12.5 kHz, providing narrowband performance at what LPRS claims is a wideband budget. In addition, an internal-temperature measurement of the wireless... June 2011 [Industry News] Antennas For Austria BARCELONA SPAIN: To help reduce cost, save printed-circuit-board (PCB) space, and increase circuit reliability, radio-frequency-identification (RFID) components maker PREMO will provide low-frequency (LF) antennas for austriamicrosystems’ (AMS) AS3933 wake-up receiver. This receiver enables battery-powered systems to add remote wakeup capability. With sensitivity of 80 µV RMS, it allows both range and bill-of-materials (BOM) cost to be optimized. In... June 2011 [Industry News] Power To The Portables UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, AUSTRIA: Lowering power consumption is an ongoing struggle for portable devices. Among recent innovations to help designers reach this goal is austriamicrosystems’ AS3605 power-management integrated circuit (PMIC). It is designed for portable devices powered by a single-cell Li-Ion battery. The device integrates seven low dropout regulators (LDOs), a DC/DC... May 2011 [Industry News] Thunder Clap Hails New Modem Design While Watch Plays Smartphone Tag OSLO, NORWAY: “Thor” isn’t just the name of the mythological God of Thunder and a new Hollywood movie. It also is the name chosen by ST-Ericsson for two of its first wireless modems based on a new architecture. According to the company, these modems will enable manufacturers to develop power-efficient devices that can connect to Long Term Evolution (LTE) and HSPA+ networks around the world. Consumers will be able to use these devices to access the Internet at... April 2011 [Industry News] LTE-Advanced Requirements Drive Mobile World Congress 2011 DESIGNERS CONCERNED with LTE and LTE-Advanced found their time was well spent at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC). The event was dominated by new products at all levels—from device through modeling and test—and even included some first-time exhibitors. Making its debut appearance at MWC was Agilent Technologies’ LTE-Advanced signal-generation and analysis solutions. The Signal Studio and 89600B Vector Signal Analysis (VSA) software for... March 2011 [Conferences] Wireless Standards Advance While Deployments Soar ACOMPLICATED COCKTAIL that mixed exhibition razzmatazz with serious, forward-looking communications technology is one way of summarizing the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which was held February 14-17 in Barcelona, Spain. Another would be to say that it offered something for everyone—whether they were consumers looking for the latest mobile-communications must-haves or electronic design engineers seeking semiconductor technology. Despite the wide variety of...  prev. page
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