ED_Wireless System Design Update_: Amateur Radio Still Going
Strong
Wireless System Update e-Newsletter
| June 10, 2008
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editor's note |
Amateur Radio Still Going Strong By Louis Frenzel, Communications/Test Editor
The Dayton Hamvention is one of the longest running continuous
amateur radio conferences in the world. This year was the 56th
installment of the event and it was held in its usual place, the Hara
Arena in Dayton, Ohio, May 16-18. I haven't been to the event since I
worked for Heathkit back in the late 1970s and early 80s. With a major
article on amateur radio and the latest equipment facing me, I thought I
had better take a look to see what is going on in this amazing hobby.
Microwave Show More Meaningful Than
Ever By Louis Frenzel, Communications/Test Editor
The IEEE’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS2008), sponsored
by the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) is being held in
Atlanta, June 15-20. The show, which has been growing each year, is more
relevant than ever. While microwave radio was once relegated to the
radar, electronic warfare, long distance telephone relay, and satellites
fields, today microwave is mainstream wireless.
Display Week, also known as SID 2008, left some clear impressions
about the state of display technologies. Various forms of LCDs (Liquid
Crystal Devices) created most show activity. This is a mature and
dominant technology, widely used in television sets, computer displays
and handheld products. Check out the highlights from the show
They may still look the same on the outside, but embedded RFID readers
and software can transform products from the inside, offering
manufacturers, OEMs, and product designers new opportunities for
competitive advantage through increased efficiency, accuracy, and
product differentiation. With an seemingly unending list of products,
RFID is a key technique to adding new functionality, increasing
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considerations for embedded RFID and companies that are already
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Electronic Design Video Coverage – Embedded Systems
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Check out Electronic Design’s video from the show floor with some of
the latest news from companies like Lantronix, Xilinx and Altium. Also
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others. Click here.
Industrial Mobile Robotics (IMR) technology employs sophisticated,
state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics, image
processing and machine learning methods to enable vehicles to automate
core material handling processes. IMR technology acts as a platform for
truly autonomous behavior, allowing material handling vehicles to work
in environments that were previously not economically or technically
feasible to serve. Seegrid’s core IMR technology relates to the
development and exploitation of 3D evidence grids for machine
perception. In an evidence grid, many views of a scene are taken (with
stereo cameras or other ranging sensors), and the data from each
individual snapshot are accumulated into one 3D model of the scene.
news |
BAW Filters First To Enable WiMAX/WLAN
Coexistence
Unveiled as the industry’s first bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters
for customer premise equipment to allow co-existence between WLAN and
WiMAX networks, the SKY33107 and SKY33108 reject interfering frequencies
while allowing the desired signals to pass for the selected network.
Expanding the RoHS-compliant V-Bite RF edgeboard connector line is a
sealed female Type-N connector featuring a weather-tight, waterproof,
and through-panel mount seal that makes it suitable for use with outdoor
antennas and portable test equipment.
The seventh generation BlueCore silicon, BlueCore7, emerges as the
first single wireless chip to combine Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low
energy, enhanced GPS, and FM transmit/receive capabilities.
Expanding the company's SiRFStarIII-based offerings, the Jupiter 31
and Jupiter 130 GPS receiver modules boost performance levels and add
more development options.
Claiming a breakthrough for WiMAX applications, the 15 W CGH55015F
and 30 W CGH55030F debut as the first GaN HEMT transistors specified to
operate at frequencies up to 5.8 GHz.
Providing a wide range of options including web configuration and AT
commands, the company's latest 802.11 wireless LAN processor modules
promise to speed and ease Wi-Fi transitions for machine-to-machine (M2M)
designers.
Unveiled as the market's most highly integrated single-chip GPS
receiver, the Venus634LP squeezes a LNA, SAW filter, RF front-end, GPS
baseband, 0.5-ppm TCXO, RTC crystal, LDO regulator, and passive
components into a 44-pin LGA package measuring 10 by 10 by 1.2 mm.
Digital Power Forum – Sep. 15-17, Burlingame CA
This focused three-day international conference will serve an audience
of decision makers who are interested in learning about and contributing
to the latest practical advancements related to the use of digital power
control techniques in electronic systems and in power converters, and
digital energy management and power management in enterprise-level
installations and related digital equipment. Register here.
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Step-By-Step Functional Verification With
SystemVerilog And OVM By Dr. Sasan Iman
In addition to providing methodological guidelines, Iman’s book
helps users learn the SystemVerilog language, and covers use of
SystemVerilog and the OVM library for building a verification
environment for a realistic design example. It packs more than 500 pages
of original technical content, none of which duplicates the
documentation already available on OVM World.
