ED_Wireless System Design Update_: What’s Next For
Wi-Fi?
Wireless System Update e-Newsletter
| July 8, 2008
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Microwaves & RF Video Coverage from Atlanta
Catch up on what you may have missed at the recent IMS 2008/MTT-S
conference in Atlanta. View our video interviews with Emerson,
Tektronix, Rhode & Schwarz and others. Click here.
editor's note |
What’s Next For Wi-Fi? By Louis Frenzel, Communications/Test Editor
Wi-Fi is that short range wireless LAN technology that practically
everyone uses. Also known by its IEEE standard designation 802.11, it
has achieved ubiquitous status since virtually all laptops incorporate
it and there are few, if any, enterprise LANs that do not support
multiple access points. But in all its glory, Wi-Fi is nearing that
state of being taken for granted.
Wayne Talley, Product Marketing for Precision ADCs at Analog
Devices, talks about the new AD7626 and AD7625 converters, the newest
additions to the PulSAR family of ADCs.
Webinar: Read Pacing: A Performance Enhancing Feature of
PCI Express Gen 2 Switch Devices
A new feature called Read Pacing is now available on Gen 2 PCI Express
switches. Read Pacing is a technology that opens up new avenues for
enhancing performance in systems with multiple I/O streams. To learn
more about Read Pacing from our friends at PLX Technology, please click
on the "play" button above. (NOTE: This webcast contains audio, so
please hit the mute button on your volume control if you cannot listen
to audio at this time.)
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Design that we publish. In addition, the year's top design as selected
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TARDEC, working alongside DRS Technologies, has designed and
developed a highly efficient, mobile power source demonstrator. The
XM1124 Hybrid Electric Humvee is an advanced series hybrid electric
vehicle that houses an engine/generator as the prime power source; a
high voltage battery pack for short term load leveling and brake event
energy storage; and has the ability to export power. The vehicle
demonstrator displays tactical mobility, and in some cases surpasses the
standard Humvee. With additional characteristics that reduce fuel
consumption, provide for export power, and meet some standard Humvee
requirements, the HE Humvee has payoffs that can be attained on current
and future military vehicles.
news |
LabVIEW Adds Toolkit For GPS Receiver
Testing
Extending the LabVIEW graphical system design environment, the NI
GPS Toolkit expands the company's RF PXI platform to include
multi-satellite GPS signal simulation.
Operating across a frequency range from 100 MHz to 6 GHz, the RedBox
amplifier, model CRBAMP-100-6000, targets applications such as IF- or
RF-buffer amplifiers, basestations, high-reliability designs, and
general lab use for in-house testing.
3-GHz Signal Generator Enhances Established RF
Test Platform
Expanding the company's PXI signal-generator line, the 3020C PXI
modular digital RF signal generator covers a frequency range from 1 MHz
to 3 GHz, supporting applications in the HF, VHF, and UHF bands.
Quick-Start Development Kits Accelerate
Bluetooth Designs
Promising the ability to quickly and economically add wireless
capabilities to product designs, the Adeunis DemoKits include all the
essential ingredients for evaluating Adeunis wireless modules from
performing RF measurements to developing a prototype.
Software Radio PMC Packs Power Meters And
Beamforming Capabilities
The Model 7152, a quad, 200-MHz 16-bit a/d digitizer with a
32-channel digital down converter (DDC) in a PMC format, includes power
meters with threshold detectors and beamforming capabilities.
Microwaves & RF Video Coverage from Atlanta
Catch up on what you may have missed at the recent IMS 2008/MTT-S
conference in Atlanta. View our video interviews with Emerson,
Tektronix, Rhode & Schwarz and others. Click here.
quick poll |
Speedo and Ansys used computer
modeling software to develop a new record-breaking swimsuit. What effect
will this and other technology have on the upcoming
Olympics?
Technology gives too large an advantage to wealthy nations.
Technology levels the playing field for all athletes.
Technology is irrelevant, as the athletes still have to
perform.
Technology diminishes the significance of the athletes'
performance.
Click here to
take the poll. Remember to scroll down; the poll is at the bottom of the
page.
Antenna Engineerign Handbook, 4th
Edition By John L. Volakis
I will be straight with you and say I have no idea how to write a
review of a book like this. It does indeed fit the definition of the
word “tome,â€쳌 but I mean that in the best possible way. If you are
looking for a master reference on antennas, this is certainly a great
one. You will not be disappointed.
