Communications
Intersil’s video SERDES IC eliminates data control cables while increasing signal distance
Intersil has introduced the ISL34340, a SERDES Interface that transports 27 bits of video data and bi-directional I2C into a single high-speed LVDS cable of up to 10 meters long. The ISL34340 is ideal for SERDES applications in video systems, industrial and medical displays and video transport in printing and security systems.
Peregrine Semiconductor Expands UltraCMOS™Digital Step Attenuator Line
Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today released three new 7-bit UltraCMOS™ Digital Step Attenuators to complement its popular 50-Ohm DSA line. Building on their high-performance predecessors, along with flexible Serial and Parallel interface logic these new HaRP™-enhanced devices also offer an unprecedented serial-addressable control interface which allows the user to control up to 8 different DSAs using a common 3-wire interface b...
Analog Devices Adds Direct Conversion Receiver Solution for Next Generation Cellular And Broadband Wireless To RF Portfolio
Analog Devices, Inc. continues to expand its radio frequency product portfolio, adding a new quadrature demodulator and dual gain trim amplifier for direct conversion receivers in next generation cellular 3G/4G and broadband wireless 802.16 applications. The ADL5380 demodulator is the industry’s first product capable of operating from 400 MHz to 6 GHz, which allows radio designers to apply the same device across a range of products and frequen...
RALCWI Family Grows With Duplex Vocoder IC
CML Microcircuits announces a new RALCWI integrated circuit to its Vocoder family. The new CMX638, is a flexible, highly integrated, high performance duplex vocoder, utilising RALCWI (Robust Advanced Low Complexity Waveform Interpolation) technology. CML now offers the CMX608, CMX618 and CMX638 high performance vocoders, which all offer near toll-quality voice performance at very low bit-rates.
RMS power detector measures signals with highly varying crest factors up to 6 GHz
Analog Devices has introduced the AD8363 TruPwr root-mean-square (RMS) power detector that precisely measures signals with highly varying crest factors up to 6 GHz used in WiMAX/802.16, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and LTE applications. The AD8363 supports the communications industry’s focus on increasing efficiency and improving ease-of-use to reduce the overall system size and cost. The AD8363 targets high performance RF applications including power ampl...
RS-485/RS-422 transceiver claims best-in-class ESD protection
Intersil has introduced an RS-485/RS-422 transceiver, a next-generation interface IC that combines what is said to be the industry’s fastest data transmission rate (100Mbps) with a low 2.6mA supply current and rugged 15kV IEC61000-4-2 ESD (electro-static discharge) protection.
GaAs MMIC receivers from Link Microtek cover microwave radio bands from 7 to 28GHz
New from microwave and RF component specialist Link Microtek is a family of nine GaAs MMIC receiver products that integrate LNAs, I/Q mixers and multipliers or LO amplifiers to provide compact solutions with a very high level of performance. Manufactured by Hittite Microwave Corporation, the receivers cover the microwave radio bands from 7 to 28GHz and are suitable for a variety of commercial and military satcom applications.
New RF Synthesizer with Integrated VCOs from STMicroelectronics Stretches Out to 5GHz
STMicroelectronics today unveiled its new RF synthesizer with integrated voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) with the highest frequency coverage in the market. ST’s STW81103 is the first single-chip device that operates up to 5GHz, meeting the increasing demand of equipment manufacturers for space and cost-efficient solutions in radio applications with frequencies in the microwave range. Among the applications in which these devices may find ...
40Mbps transceivers feature widest temperature range
Intersil has introduced the ISL3159E and ISL3179E RS-485/RS-422 transceivers. These next-generation interface ICs combine 40Mbps transmission performance over the industry’s widest temperature range (-40C to +125C) along with 15kV IEC61000 ESD protection and a DFN package option that is up to 70% smaller than standard 8-lead SOIC offerings.
CML Launches Low Cost, Low Bit-Rate RALCWI Vocoder IC
CML Microcircuits today announced the introduction of a new RALCWI (Robust Advanced Low Complexity Waveform Interpolation) vocoder IC. The product is the result of a co-operation between CML Microcircuits and SPIRIT DSP. The new CML IC is named as the CMX618, which CML will market to worldwide communication markets based upon SPIRIT’s proprietary Low Bit-Rate Vocoder technology. The co-operation combines CML’s 39-year history of developing mi...