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• “Intelligent charging” for Li-ion batteries 14/12/2007

  NXP's ISP1704 and ISP1601 are USB battery charger detection chips for mobile phone designs. They detect and differentiate between a dedicated USB charger, a USB Host Charger and a USB Host when charging ....

  Fast-response, precision RF power detector 4/12/2007

  In basestation design, says Linear Technology’s James Wong – product marketing manager of HF products – power measurement is a critical function and one which becomes more difficult as digital modulation ....

  BROADBAND-TRANSCEIVER-CHIP MAKER TARGETS WiMAX BASE-STATION SOCKETS 1/12/2007

  Lime Microsystems is a fabless semiconductor start-up based in the UK that has been developing transceiver technology for use with wireless standards such as WiMax. The company has announced a reference design for a MicroTCA-format card ....

  ARM targets NFC smart cards with Cortex variant 1/12/2007

  The market for secure smart-card processors is one that today runs at around 50 million units per year, and ARM believes it has the largest single share of that business with its SC100 SecurCore processor IP, licensed ....

  Active FM antenna 1/12/2007

  Laird Technologies’ Activv antenna is an FM antenna that designers can incorporate directly inside a handset device. It updates the company’s RadioAnt antenna with improved performance, minimal size, ease of installation ....

  50-channel GPS module series can acquire signal in 1 sec 20/11/2007

  Swiss GPS chip and module maker u-blox has introduced the LEA-5 GPS module series, which it based on its fifth-generation positioning engine, u-blox 5. Fast acquisition time is possible, the company ....

  Embedded-FRAM chip for digital TV 19/11/2007

  Fujitsu Microelectronics has announced an embedded-FRAM (ferroelectric RAM) for digital TVs that enables simultaneous use of four-channel High-Definition Multimedia ....

  Protocol tester handles Wave 2 WiMax 2/11/2007

  Anite has announced that its WiMAX Protocol Conformance Toolset (PCT) has been validated by the WiMAX Forum for certifying the latest Fixed WiMAX devices for the Wave 2 specifications. Wave 2 is an ....

  4G wireless: EVOLUTION OR WATERSHED IN SOC ARCHITECTURES? 1/11/2007

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  12-Bit ADCs for WiMAX 1/11/2007

  From National Semiconductor come two 12-bit 170M sample/sec ADCs(analogue-to-digitalconverters) and a 14-bit, 155M sample/sec ADC, each with a full-power bandwidth of 1.1 GHz. National designed the ADCs, which are available ....

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