Technology offers the speed of fibre with the flexibility of wireless 8 September 2004 At this year's Futurex, Spescom Telecommunications introduced FlightLite 100, an optical wireless solution for enterprise IT professionals that is specifically targeted at the entry-level data market.
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Siemens Components develops demo board for wireless modules 8 September 2004, Siemens South Africa Inspired by the old adage that seeing is believing, Siemens Components has pioneered a new development board specifically designed to showcase its wireless modules to potential customers. A prototype ...
Tiny radio transmitter chip 8 September 2004, CST Electronics, Electrocomp, Information Security Maxim has managed to shrink its new low-power radio transmitter down to 3 x 3 mm square, calling its new MAX1479 the world's smallest VHF/UHF PLL-based ASK/FSK transmitter to deliver more than +10dBm ...
ESDA member profile: Frank Street September 2004, Frank Street, News & Events Frank Street is an importer and distributor of CCTV equipment in southern Africa. Established in 1998, the company continues to grow from strength to strength. It stocks a complete range of CCTV equipment ...
UHF RFID chip supports EPCglobal Class 1 spec 25 August 2004, Altron Arrow STMicroelectronics has announced the availability of a UHF RFID memory chip for supply chain and logistics applications, that complies with the Version 1.0 EPCglobal standards. The XRA00 is a full-featured, ...
Troubles with EPC RF protocols 11 August 2004, Trolley Scan The world at present is desperate for some form of standard with many companies who wish to become RFID producers wanting to be EPC-compliant.
The EPC goals are based around two components, a data standard ...
'Cordless voice module' for wireless phone applications 11 August 2004, Altron Arrow, Healthcare (Industry) National Semiconductor offers a cordless voice module (CVM) that integrates a radio transceiver and baseband with a complete protocol stack on a single board. This enables system designers to more easily ...
GPS module family with different mounting types enables compact solutions 11 August 2004, RF Design Falcom is producing in volume, the Falcom JP7-T family of embedded GPS modules with an integrated temperature compensated oscillator (TCXO). The GPS core architecture is based on the SiRFstarIIe/LP chipset ...
Key specifications of passive microwave devices 11 August 2004, Power Electronics / Power Management Most microwave devices provide a number of specifications of varying importance. The significance of return loss, insertion loss, passive intermodulation product levels, and isolation will be considered ...
High power terminations 11 August 2004 Trilithic's HTF-series of high power terminations has been redesigned to extend the frequency range and offer lower VSWR. These units have 50 Ω impedance and are standard with N male or N female connectors.
Trilithic's ...
GPS/AGPS chipset with high sensitivity 11 August 2004, EBV Electrolink, Integrated Solutions, Financial (Industry) A new 2-chipset solution for high sensitivity GPS/AGPS (augmented GPS) receivers capable of indoors acquisition has been released by Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME). The chipset is said to achieve ...
Single chip CMOS GSM/GPRS radio transceiver 11 August 2004, Electrocomp, Integrated Solutions Infineon Technologies has started volume shipments of its new SMARTi SD, said to be the world's first single chip CMOS-based GSM/GPRS quad-band transceiver. Optimised for cost, size and power consumption, ...
64 kHz composite-clock transceivers 11 August 2004, CST Electronics, Electrocomp Dallas Semiconductor's DS26502 and DS26503 are 64 kHz composite-clock transceivers. The DS26502 is a building-integrated, timing-supply (BITS) clock-recovery element that supports the following popular ...
Support for ADM/PCM codec IC speeds design-ins 28 July 2004 The DE6491 Wireless Voice Link Demonstration Kit recently released by CML Microcircuits, is a PCB-based kit that provides instant evaluation, design and operational access to designers of radio-voice ...
GPS combined with Bluetooth for vehicle navigation/tracking 28 July 2004, RF Design Falcom has developed a unique concept with Navi-B, its Bluetooth-enabled GPS receiver. The Navi-B combines low power highly sensitive GPS technology with an embedded Bluetooth (class 2) transceiver. The ...
Multichannel LIU and Framer combination devices 28 July 2004, ASIC Design Services Exar says that it can now offer the industry's first DS3/E3 LIU/Framer/JA combination device family. These devices follow Exar's successful single channel part, the XRT79L71 by adding multichannel integrated ...
In-circuit board tester gets JTAG test ability 28 July 2004, Test & Rework Solutions, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services DiagnoSYS has signed an agreement with XJTAG, a specialist design and test tool developer, to enable it to integrate the XJTAG boundary scan development system into its PinPoint II advanced in-circuit ...
Multimode quad-band modulator 28 July 2004, RF Design The RF2705 is a high-performance modulator that supports the world's major wireless standards-CDMA, WCDMA, TDMA, GSM and EDGE. This RF Micro Devices device is a multi-mode quad-band quadrature modulator ...
Single-chip analog car radio solutions 28 July 2004, Altron Arrow Philips Semiconductors' front-end tuning and analog signal processing technologies are combined in its new highly-integrated TEF690x family. Greatly reducing the number of external components needed to ...
Single and dual-channel framer and LIU combo devices 14 July 2004, ASIC Design Services Exar's XRT86LXX incorporates the company's unique line interface unit (LIU) and framer in an innovative combination device. The XRT86L30 (single-channel) and XRT86L32 (dual-channel) are targeted at telecom ...
