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Three US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's communications-electronics center technologies proven useful in the field by US Soldiers will be recognized as part of the Top Ten 2009 Army's Greatest Inventions during an awards ceremony at the Army Science Conference November 28 in Orlando, FL. "There are several...

Alereon Inc. announced the addition of several new wireless HDMI reference designs to the company’s UWB wireless solution offerings: The AL5750 1080p Wireless UWB Audio/Video Adapter, the AL5810/11 Wireless HDMI Encoder/Decoder and the AL5820/21 Wireless HDMI Encoder/Decoder with 3D support. All reference designs are powered by Alereon’s ECMA and...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced a new highly integrated, high performance RF detector for use in wireless, instrumentation, defense and other broadband applications. ADI’s new ADL5511 TruPwr root mean square (rms) and envelope detector (an electronic circuit that takes a RF signal as input and provides an output that...

Piconics and Modelithics have released new broadband, 0.04 to 65 GHz, data and models for a six different conical inductor products. Measured data, acquired using series and shunt mount fixtures, is now available for free download from the Modelithics web site at > www.modelithics.com/mvp/Piconics/ . Broadband equivalent circuit models...

Continuing to lead the industry with the latest technology trends, ANADIGICS Inc. announced that its power amplifiers are being utilized by LG Electronics (LG) for the new VL600 USB wireless modem. The VL600, which will be offered by Verizon Wireless, adapts ANADIGICS’ ALT6713 and AWT6321 power amplifiers (PA) to...

Rogers Corp. has introduced RT/duroid® 6035HTC, a new high-thermal-conductivity (HTC) laminate material engineered for low loss in high-power circuits. The fluoropolymer composite material is ideal for RF and microwave applications in military and high-reliability (hi-rel) applications required to handle high power levels, such as power amplifiers. Rogers RT/duroid 6035HTC...

As worldwide mobile phones sales begin to rebound after the economic downturn, emerging economies will fuel demand for entry-level handsets, a new ABI Research report finds. Shipments of ultra-low-cost handsets will grow to more than 360 million by 2015, representing a 2010-2015 CAGR of over 22 percent, while shipments...

Logic PD and Roke Manor Research have announced a strategic partnership whereby the companies will develop wireless products that maximise the user experience and offer customers the shortest development times possible. They will share their product development expertise and intellectual property across geographies to offer customers advanced solutions that...

The Chilean government, Chile's telecommunications company Entel and Ericsson are implementing a project to provide three million people in remote rural Chile with mobile broadband and mobile telephony by the end of 2011. In 2009, Entel and Ericsson won a $45 M public contract from the Chilean government to...

NEC Corp. will participate in an LTE field trial with Telefonica Moviles Argentina S.A. , the largest mobile carrier in Argentina, and a subsidiary of mobile giant Telefonica. The trial, which is the first in the AWS band in Central and South America, is taking place between November and...