Wireless

Avago Technologies has announced two new front end modules that incorporate a power amplifier, duplexer, band-pass filter and coupler to improve efficiency and extend talk time in mobile handsets. Avago’s AFEM-775x series includes Avago’s CoolPAM and Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator technologies to improve performance in CDMA cell band and dual-band handsets, wireless PDAs and wireless data cards.

UR Group has extended its range of dual-band GSM/GPRS data modules, giving designers the extra choice of a surface-mount module for direct soldering to the PCB, with QFN pinning and a footprint of 30.2mm x 20.8mm. UR’s new module, the Teltonika TM1, combines its small outline with a total height of only 2.87mm. This is approximately half the height of the Teltonika TM2 plug-in board introduced by UR in 2008, and brings the TM2’s comprehensive...

Maxim has introduced the DS2775/DS2776/DS2777/DS2778, said to be the industry's first 2-cell, stand-alone fuel gauges to integrate a 2-cell lithium-ion (Li+) protector in a tiny, 3mm x 5mm TDFN package. Additionally, the DS2776/DS2778 integrate SHA-1 authentication for battery security. These devices consume 75% less board space than the leading competitive solution, which requires three discrete ICs to implement the same security functionality a...

CML Microcircuits has introduced a high performance integrated RF quadrature / low IF transceiver IC, which features an advanced image-reject up-conversion modulation system and flexible superheterodyne receiver.

PREMO launchs a low profile three axes coil (X-Y-Z) with high robustness; the “3DC11LP” for RFID transponder application (from 20kHz up to 134,2kHz).

RF Solutions has enabled contract-free GPS tracking for personal security and asset management by introducing the Shadow Tracker system using pay-as-you-go mobile and Google Internet maps. The system’s personal base-station and software allow users to track the location of the GPS/GSM handset supplied from a home or office PC.

As the wireless communications market continues to expand and develop more and more sophisticated products, so the need to extend the capabilities of standard mobile device platforms increases. Because of its inherent versatility and flexibility, Elan Digital’s tried and tested VMB5000A bridge device is finding new applications in the mobile device market.

Fairchild Semiconductor brings designers of smart phones a SD card translating multiplexer that interfaces three different I/O levels between host and SD interfaces. The FXL3SD206 multiplexes between three voltage levels and three parts, saving valuable board space and minimizing design complexity. This single device replaces a multiple chip solution in smart phone applications. With an optimal 24-pin UMLP footprint, this SD card multiplexer is i...

Panorama Antennas has announced the availability of its new high performing WiMAX antennas for machine to machine communications. The new range of antennas will be show cased at the Hannover Fair on 20th April 2009.

Radiometrix will be exhibiting at this year’s Hannover Messe, which runs for the whole of the week starting on the 20th April at the Hannover exhibition grounds. The show, which has been running for a total of sixty two years, is regarded not only Europe’s but the world’s largest industrial exhibition, with in the region of 5000 companies exhibiting and 180-200,000 visitors passing through its doors annually.