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Tyco Electronics and OATSystems announced an alliance to offer a RFID solution targeted for industrial manufacturers to quickly realize the business benefits of RFID by automating asset management processes. Asset management across multiple facilities and trading partners has never been more complex. RFID is an obvious solution to automate...

For many years, wireless local area network (WLAN) technologies have worked impeccably when they have an unimpeded path from transmission to reception. The real world is neither flat nor empty, however, and physical barriers have long been the nemesis of WLAN performance. Walls, people and other objects routinely impede...

Introduction Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is not a new technology, with the initial application being IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) used by aircraft during World War 2. Since that time it has found a variety of uses including key fobs, contactless payment, proximity cards for building security, and toll...

IC packaging has become a critical bottleneck to achieving further reductions in the size of wireless products. While Moore’s law provides a continuous increase in the density of digital silicon components with each new process node, there is no Moore’s law for the RF components used in today’s broadband...

Integrated Barcode Technology (IBT) has announced that it has been acquired by Astron Wireless Technologies Inc. , a northern Virginia-based global manufacturer of antenna, cable and connectivity products for a multitude of wireless communications applications for over 28 years. IBT is a leading systems integrator and added value reseller...

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I. INTRODUCTION Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system is a new wireless data transmission and reception technique for automatic identification, asset tracking, security surveillance etc. A typical RFID system is shown in Fig. 1. A RFID system consists of three major components: a reader or integrator, which sends the interrogation...

The MathWorks introduced RF Blockset 2, which extends Simulink® with a library of blocks to model the behavior of linear and nonlinear RF components—filters, transmission lines, amplifiers and mixers—by supporting the widespread Agilent standards for large signal-scattering parameters in system-level verification models. In addition to enabling access to industry-standard...

Despite the additional cost and complexity of adding NFC (Near Field Communication) to mobile handsets, this emerging technology will not remain the preserve of the most expensive handsets, as is often the case with cutting-edge features. Instead, according to a recent study from ABI Research, the drive from operators...

MediaTek Inc. , a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital media solutions, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets related to the Analog Devices Inc. Othello® radio and SoftFone® baseband chipset product lines, as well as certain cellular handset baseband support operations,...