What is NFC technology? 18 May 2005, Altron Arrow NFC (near field communication) is a very short-range wireless technology for distances measured in centimetres, and is optimised for intuitive, easy and secure communications between various devices without ...
Serial data transmission via Bluetooth 18 May 2005, Phoenix Contact With Bluetooth technology making fast and economical remote data transmission available in industrial applications, Phoenix Contact offers its PSI-WL Bluetooth converters that can be used for wireless ...
Implementing a fibre-optic link 18 May 2005, Elvey Security Technologies There are many benefits in using fibre-optics as a data transmission medium rather than copper cable. In this article, using the example of a fibre-optic system for CCTV, David Archer, the technical manager ...
3 metre accurate GPS baseband IC 18 May 2005, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Atmel has expanded its GPS device offerings with the industry's first 14-channel, GPS baseband IC to carry a low $5 price tag and three-metre accuracy. The chip was developed jointly with Thales Navigation...
Enhanced low-power UHF receiver 18 May 2005, MB Silicon Systems The MICRF009 is a Micrel QwikRadio low-power UHF receiver aimed at the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. The MICRF009 is a single chip, ASK/OOK (on-off keyed) RF receiver IC that provides the ...
Complete ISM reference design for wireless game controllers 18 May 2005, Altron Arrow, EBV Electrolink Atmel is offering a complete ISM 2,4 GHz reference design primarily intended for wireless gaming applications. It combines Atmel's low-cost 2,4 GHz Smart RF transceiver and AVR Flash Microcontroller series, ...
Convergence clears the way for cost-savings, new apps 18 May 2005 The shift towards Internet Protocol (IP) as a protocol for the transmission of voice as well as data is likely to clear the way for companies to deploy a host of applications that will allow them to save ...
TI supplies secure ISO 14443 RFID solution for MasterCard system 4 May 2005, Altron Arrow Texas Instruments is to supply RFID chips for MasterCard's PayPass RFID cashless payment cards and tokens. The RFID chips are fully ISO/IEC 14443 compliant and offer the high security required for financial ...
Voltage controlled oscillator 4 May 2005, RF Design The SMV5256A VCO from Z-Comm operates at a frequency range of 5256 to 5356 MHz and tunes within 1 to 4 V d.c. of control voltage. With a clean spectral signal of -86 dBc/Hz @ 10 kHz offset, this oscillator ...
RS485 transceivers said to save 70% board space 4 May 2005 Analog Devices' ADM485x family of differential line transceivers is suitable for high speed half/full duplex data communication on multipoint bus transmission lines. They are designed for balanced data ...
Ready-to-use Bluetooth hands-free car-kit reference design 4 May 2005, Altron Arrow STMicroelectronics is offering a Bluetooth-based hands-free car-kit reference design. Featuring noise- and echo-cancelling, ST's Blue HFCK is claimed to be ready-to-use, extremely easy to install, and ...
Wideband direct modulators 4 May 2005, RF Design Hittite Microwave's wideband direct quadrature modulators offer a simplified alternative to double upconversion architectures. These SiGe-based direct modulator RFICs support modulator bandwidths of DC ...
Application: UART power-save feature drops current down to 15 micro-amps 4 May 2005, ASIC Design Services This article describes the Power-Save feature of Exar's single channel XR16L580 (L580) UART and the two channel XR16L2551 (L2551) and XR16L2751 (L2751) UARTs. Collectively, we shall refer to these three ...
Mesh-ready transceivers smooth data flow 4 May 2005, RF Design According to AeroComm its new 900 MHz AC4790 transceivers ease networking effort for a wide variety of industrial control applications. With true peer-to-peer technology embedded into the AC4790s, they ...
Bluetooth kits for Rabbit core modules 20 April 2005 Rabbit Semiconductor has added Bluetooth support for selected core modules. Based on the EmbeddedBlue eb506 AHC IN Bluetooth Radio Module from A7 Engineering, Bluetooth capability is available in a complete ...
GPS receiver module has high sensitivity 20 April 2005, NuVision Electronics The CW25-NAV is a small OEM surface-mount GPS module from Navsync that has been specifically designed for extremely high sensitivity for use in very weak GPS signal environments.
The CW25-NAV can track ...
Blade antenna for 3G 20 April 2005, Inteto Connect Poynting Antennas has released its Cellular Blade Antenna for 3G. According to the company, many of the current 3G offerings come standard with an integrated antenna, which is hidden in the card, but ...
Coaxial resonator VCO for fixed wireless applications 20 April 2005, RF Design Z-Communications' CRO2660A, a low-cost coaxial resonator VCO geared for the fixed wireless market, is intended for use in point-to-multipoint radio systems. The CRO2660A oscillates at 2600 MHz in 0,5 ...
Transparent wireless system for Profibus 20 April 2005 With all the programming and configuration needed for Profibus PLCs, it is a nice change to have a device that does not need to have any configuration or programming. All these demands are now a thing ...
