Wireless

TRaC, Europe’s premier ZigBee test house, has announced it has completed validation of its ZigBee Home Automation test service by the ZigBee Alliance and is now offering certification testing against the ZigBee Home Automation public application profile, enabling its OEM customers to place ZigBee Home Automation compliant products in the market. This recent addition to TRaC’s testing services expands its existing ZigBee testing abilit...

Wolfson Microelectronics has announced the launch of a new family of low power CODECs designed to enhance the audio performance and extend the battery life of portable applications. The WM8944, WM8945, WM8946 and WM8948 are the latest additions to Wolfson's successful portfolio of low power CODECs, and are targeted at portable applications including digital still cameras, digital camcorders and voice recorders.

Farnell has announced the availability of a new range of high quality accessories to support Wireless M2M applications based around the market leading Cinterion Wireless Module Range. The new range of products includes innovative solutions for integrating Cinterion Modules on the PCB, IP67- rated antenna cable assemblies and GSM antenna, and an IP67-rated industrial enclosure ideal for pilot programs in M2M applications for remote monitoring and ...

Texas Instruments introduced today an integrated, high-linearity, low-noise intermediate frequency (IF) transceiver with cross-polarization interference cancellation (XPIC) support. The TRF2443 enables designers to reduce solution cost by 40 percent, power consumption by 30 percent, and space by 40 percent, as compared to discrete implementations.

As consumers demand greater visibility into their energy consumption in order to keep energy costs down, Talon Communications has selected Texas Instruments low-power RF technology as the preferred solution for the Talon edot In-Home-Display (IHD), the latest in a family of Home Area Network (HAN) devices servicing the Smart Energy Initiative. The edot IHD utilizes TI’s CC2530, a complete IEEE 802.15.4 2.4-GHz radio frequency (RF) system-on-ch...

Maxim has introduced the MAX2839AS, a single-chip, 2.3GHz to 2.7GHz, WiMAX MIMO RF transceiver in a 3.5mm x 5.1mm WLP (wafer-level package). This device builds on the success of the MAX2839 (QFN package), enabling ultra-small WiMAX modules for compact fixed and mobile applications.

The AMB8420 from AMBER wireless is a compact and low-cost 868MHz radio data transmission module for wireless half-duplex communication. The integrated microprocessor controls data communication, handling packet and checksum formation, addressing, monitoring of channel access and resending unreceived packets.

The LEON G-100 and G-200 are optimized to work with u-blox’ GPS receivers to support low-cost, mass-market, location-aware telematics applications requiring mobile connectivity such as asset tracking, fleet management, road pricing, vehicle recovery and mobile emergency services such as eCall. They are also ideal for use in machine-to-machine telemetry systems for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), Remote Monitoring Automation and Control (RMAC...

Antenova has announced its antennas and M10214 GPS RADIONOVA RF Antenna Modules have been selected by Quantum, a leading mobile TV industry player. Antenova’s Wi-Fi and HSDPA antennas along with the M10214 GPS RF Antenna Modules provide Quantum’s iconic handheld multimedia devices with always-on, anywhere and anytime connectivity.

Sarantel, the leading manufacturer of filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices, has announced the launch of their new SL3101 passive Iridium antenna. Built on patented PowerHelix filtering antenna technology, the SL3101 Iridium antenna provides high performance in challenging Iridium applications using an innovative octafilar helix design.