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Microwave Solid State Circuit Design Second Edition Inder Bahl and Prakash Bhartia Wiley-Interscience 906 pages; $140 ISBN: 0-471-20755-1 This is the second edition of a book that was published almost fifteen years ago. In this revision, emphasis was placed on retaining and expanding topics of current and future interest...

With the ability to sense and measure rotational motion becoming a critical component for several automotive and military applications, revenues of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyros will grow from $279 M in 2002 to $396 M in 2007, reports In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm finds that, with MEMS...

Most people are familiar with vehicle navigation systems and how they read GPS signals from US military satellites to determine location. However, other military defense technologies are continuing their life cycle in the automotive platform, according to a new study from the technology research firm ABI. Automotive systems such...

The cellular PC card (CPC) industry features both IT-centric companies, like Dell computer, and those more closely aligned with the wireless industry, like Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Although many players have tried and failed in this business, success rests with those who have strong relationships with both operators and...

Passive RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits Leo G. Maloratsky Newnes — An imprint of Elsevier 368 pages; $69.99 ISBN: 0-7506-7699-X The last four decades have been marked by the rapid development of RF and microwave integrated circuits, which offer the advantages of compact, lightweight designs with enhanced performance, higher...

Due to the fast growing demand for broadband wireless communications, the operating frequency band is moving toward the 5 GHz U-NII band. The advantage of combining baseband and the RF front-end on a single chip for cost savings is strongly desired for highly integrated systems-on-chip (SoC) applications. Due to...

The demand for small, compact, low cost, high performance filters, diplexers and multiplexers using MIC technologies has increased along with advances in microwave systems. Capacitive-loaded interdigital filters are compact in size, have sharp roll factor, excellent broad stopband performance and are easy to fabricate. A filter with tapped-line is...

Due to the fast growing demand for broadband wireless communications, the operating frequency band is moving toward the 5 GHz U-NII band. The advantage of combining baseband and the RF front-end on one single chip for cost savings is strongly desired for highly integrated systems-on-chip (SoC) applications. Due to...

The analytical and behavior models for direct conversion receiver IP 2 nonlinear distortion characteristics have been derived. The impact of IP 2 on system EVM, BER/PER performance was simulated. The trade-offs between IP 2 distortion and other impairments, such as peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), IP 3 , phase noise...

Fig. 1 IEEE 802.11 WLAN frequency allocations. t Due to the rapidly growing demand for broadband wireless communication, the operating frequency is moving toward the 5 GHz U-NII band. With a maximum data rate of 54 Mb/s, the IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN (WLAN) standard specifies 300 MHz allocation of...