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ON Semiconductor Corp. and SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. announced the signing of a definitive purchase agreement providing for the acquisition of SANYO Semiconductor Co. Ltd. , a subsidiary of SANYO Electric, and other assets related to SANYO Electric’s semiconductor business, by ON Semiconductor in a cash and stock transaction...

Software & Design Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 5 An iterative process of selectively refining the finite element mesh based on the results from a previous solution (2 words) 11 Radio in which some or all of the physical layer functions are software defined (3 words) 12 A class...

They go by many marketing names: Single RAN, Uni-BTS, Multi-RAN, Multi-standard Radio. But they all mean essentially the same thing: relatively simple upgrades that allow a single standard base station to support multiple technologies. The next few years will see a rapidly growing – although possibly short-lived – wave...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that Samsung Electronics is leveraging one of its power amplifier (PA) modules for the GT-B3710 – a high speed fourth generation (4G) USB modem that is the...

A new inventory management system developed by TASC Inc. for the US Navy will allow Naval warehousing facilities to automatically count and locate RFID-tagged inventory in real time. The software platform integrates a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with an inventory management system. "Good asset management is essential to...

2011 will be the year when LTE goes live in a big way, as Verizon in the United States and DoCoMo in Japan will begin wide-scale roll-outs by the end of 2010. ABI Research Analyst Bhavya Khanna reports, “132 networks have reported trials or plans to launch LTE commercially,...

Electro-Metrics introduced the all-new EM-6003 antenna kit. This complete antenna kit covers the broadest frequency range available in a small, rugged, deployable package. The EM-6003 kit features three all new passive antennas that set standards in the field. The EM-6857 "Club" provides omni-directional coverage over a frequency range greater...

Next year will be my 30 th anniversary of active duty as a marketer in the high technology world – much of it in the arena of communications technologies. I have served enterprises large and small, start-ups to international conglomerates – connectors, test equipment, synthesizers, filters, antennas, complex packages...