Wireless

Texas Instruments has announced its newest IP phone platform, enabling manufacturers to deliver cost effective IP phones for the low-end enterprise, small and medium business (SMB), and residential markets. This new addition to TI's IP phone product suite leverages the company's extensive experience in the Voice over IP (VoIP) industry and is powered by TI's digital signal processors (DSP), enabling real-time signal processing, low-power consump...

Texas Instruments has introduced the industry's first System-on-Chip (SoC) solution with a hardware location engine targeting low-power ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networking applications. The CC2431, from the company's Chipcon product line, targets applications such as asset and equipment tracking, inventory control, patient monitoring, remote controls, security and commissioning networks. The device is supported by TI's leading ZigBee...

Peregrine Semiconductor has announced the next generation of its UltraCMOS products at the MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The new 0.5µm PE42693 SP9T RF antenna switch is the highest throw-count RF CMOS antenna switch available on the market today. To support more highly integrated and even smaller WCDMA solutions, Peregrine also announced that it has qualified its 0.25 µm UltraCMOS technology for three ne...

Anders Electronics has introduced a new 4.3-inch TFT LCD with WVGA resolution and two 4.3-inch displays with WQVGA resolution. All modules have a wide operating temperature range, delivering enhanced multimedia performance for mobile professional convergence devices. Applications include GPS receivers, security equipment, ultra-portable PCs and data acquisition systems.

Avago Technologies has announced a quintplexer module delivering what it says is superior global positioning system performance levels. The company is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. Avago's highly integrated and compact ACFM-7102 quintplexer delivers a significant improvement in insertion loss while delivering high GPS to cell band, and GPS to PCS band isolation.With a...

STMicroelectronics has announced a compact audio power amplifier chip – intended for mobile phones and for other portable audio products – which creates 3D audio effects in the stereo speaker outputs to add impact and a surround-sound feel to MP3 and video files. The TS4997 can deliver 1.2W per channel of continuous average output power into 8-ohm loads, from a 5V supply — although it operates from supplies of as little as 2.7V — while it...

Renesas Technology Europe today announced the SuperH family SH7775, an SoC solution designed for high-performance car information systems such as next-generation car navigation systems. Sample shipments will begin in July 2007. The SH7775 incorporates the SuperH family’s top-end SH -4A CPU core and is capable of high processing performance of 1GIPS (giga floating-point operations per second) or more. It is a high-performance SoC product that...

EAD is pleased to introduce the TBR2100, a GSM/3G 1/2 wave dipole with knuckle SMA-Male connector supporting 870-960/1710-2170 MHz.

picoChip has announced the next version of its industry-standard WiMAX basestation reference design, with a software upgrade to support Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 and MIMO. The new PC8532 WiMAX platform has its first public display at WiMAX World Europe this week (Booth Number 204). It is the only basestation reference design to support WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO, and scales from access point (femtocell) to sophisticated multi-sector carrier macrocells...

Quadrant has introduced to the UK a new generation control handset from Peiker acustic GmbH that is designed for all analogue or digital mobile communication systems and can be customised to meet specific user requirements. Ideal for use in cars, trucks, buses and trains fitted with private mobile radio applications using GSM, GSM-R, Tetra, Tetrapol and Satphone radio standards, the new Peiker HA87 handset is also designed for use by the emergenc...