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Commercial Market New Chipset Expected to Reduce Digital Cordless Telephone Prices Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group has introduced the Everest™ series 900 MHz digital cordless telephone chipset, which enables cordless telephone manufacturers to offer products at up to half their current price without sacrificing clarity or range. According to Lucent,...

The Book End Fiber Optics Standard Dictionary,Third Edition Martin H. Weik Chapman & Hall 1218 pages; $99.95 ISBN: 0-412-12241-3 In many areas of communications, control, data processing, illumination and sensing, the photon is rapidly replacing the electron. This third edition of the dictionary represents an eight-fold increase in content...

High Power Coaxial Remote Terminations with Ultra-low SWR Performance Florida RF Labs Inc. Stuart, FL Terminations are present in RF and microwave systems to absorb unwanted signals that otherwise may cause distortion products or component instabilities or damage. Historically, high power terminations were large planar resistors that exhibited poor...

A Fast Switching, Low Noise, Indirect Synthesizer Aeroflex Comstron Plainview, NY The dilemma faced by automatic test equipment suppliers in the test of multifunction ICs for the wireless industry is that they require the spectral purity of indirect synthesizers for LO and stimulus signals. At the same time, switching...

Single-carrier Power Amplifiers for GSM Applications AML Communications Inc. Camarillo, CA As the sophistication of GSM has evolved, the demands for ever-increasing data rates have imposed new design challenges for high power, single-channel amplifiers. In order for a power amplifier to meet the stringent requirements of the GSM 05.05...

Product Feature A Radio Channel Simulator for W-CDMA Applications Elektrobit Ltd. Please click here to view the pdf file of the Product Feature...

Radiated Emissions Measurements Using an EMI Receiver Andrew Ware Hewlett-Packard Co.,Santa Rosa Systems Division Santa Rosa, CA Electronic products designed for global markets must meet both national and international standards for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Measurements based on these standards fall into two basic categories of electromagnetic (EM) testing: radiated...

Technical Note Vector-corrected Power Sensor Calibration J. Randy Fenton Please click here to view the pdf file of the Technical Note...

Technical Feature Network Analyzer Calibration for Measurements Near the Waveguide Cutoff Frequency S.P. Yeo and M. Cheng Please click here to view the pdf file of the Technical Feature...

A Sub 1 W Load-pull Quarter-wave Prematching Network Based on a Two-tier TRL Calibration Transistors used for cellular and PCS infrastructure applications are required to amplify signals with a peak-to-average ratio that can exceed 13 dB, resulting in a peak envelope power (PEP) approaching 1 kW. This PEP requirement...