'Wireless' Category Archive

SiRF Introduces SiRFInstantFixII for Mobile Navigation

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, January 2, 2008

SiRFInstantFixII is an autonomous version of SiRF (Nasdaq: SIRF) original SiRFInstantFix technology that is designed to significantly improve the start-up times of portable navigation devices (PNDs) and other mobile navigation devices without needing any network connectivity for assistance or updates. Available now for both SiRFstarIII GPS receivers and SiRFatlas and SiRFtitan multifunction SoC navigation processors, [...]

Ralink RT3080, RT3070 802.11n ICs

Posted by Ken Cheung in Components, Wireless on Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Ralink Technology Corporation launched two new 802.11n single chips — the RT3080 and RT3070. The RT3080 enables Wi-Fi in handheld/mobile devices and the RT3070 is the industry's smallest 802.11n USB single chip for PCs, AP/Routers, and client devices. The RT3080 and RT3070 are currently being sampled by early access customers and will be in mass [...]

FIC Forms OpenMoko Mobile Device Company

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, January 2, 2008

FIC — a motherboard, graphics, and mobile manufacturer — has spun off OpenMoko as a separate company. OpenMoko, which was launched as a project early 2006 within FIC, is the creator of the first completely integrated open source mobile platform. By forming a separate company, OpenMoko can further develop its brand leadership in the open [...]

GreenPeak Battery-Free Wireless Communication Devices

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Tuesday, December 4, 2007

GreenPeak Technologies recently introduced new products for ultra-low-power wireless sense and control networks. GreenPeak's new wireless communication devices leverage three key technologies that enable it to operate in a battery-free environment without cabling. The first is an ultra-low-power wireless transceiver and sensor interface design with efficient power-up and power-down modes that dramatically reduce power consumption. [...]

Texas Instruments SimpliciTI Network Protocol

Posted by Ken Cheung in Networking, Wireless on Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The SimpliciTI(TM) network protocol from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) is a proprietary low-power radio frequency (RF) protocol targeting simple, small RF networks (less than 100 nodes). SimpliciTI network protocol was designed for easy implementation with minimal microcontroller resource requirements. Since SimpliciTI network protocol is designed for simple RF networks, it offers a perfect [...]

LitePoint IQmax MIMO, IQwave for WiMAX

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, November 7, 2007

LitePoint's IQmax MIMO system targets WiMAX devices with Wave 2 functionality. The mobility adjuncts to the current WiMAX standard (IEEE standard 802.16e-2005) require capabilities beyond those of earlier versions, and LitePoint's new system provides those capabilities. The current WiMAX mobile radio interface uses scalable orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (SOFDMA) and supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications [...]

EnOcean STM 110 Wireless Sensor Module

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Sunday, November 4, 2007

The EnOcean STM 110 module is a wireless, battery-free sensor transmitter that integrates all sensor functions into a single module. The module targets OEMs developing products for commercial building monitoring and control, industrial processes, lighting control, automated metering infrastructures, and home automation. The EnOcean STM (Sensor Transmitter Module) 110 harvests and stores solar energy, converts [...]

Agilent N8300A Wireless Networking Test Set

Posted by Ken Cheung in Test Solution, Wireless on Thursday, November 1, 2007

The Agilent (NYSE:A) N8300A Wireless Networking Test Set and N6301A Measurement Application form a complete one-box transmitter and receiver test solution for Mobile WiMAX devices. With its superior specifications and fast manufacturing test time, the solution effectively meets the needs of cell phone, ODM and CM manufacturing engineers testing WiMAX mobile subscriber devices or modules [...]

Conexant Systems 802.11n Devices

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT) offers a low power 802.11n draft 2.0 product family for high-performance, power-sensitive wireless local area networking (WLAN) applications. The CX53322 and CX53328 are ideal for products with embedded Wi-Fi functionality such as printers, portable media players, cellular handsets, and universal serial bus (USB) sticks. The single-chip devices are available in production [...]

Semtech SX1211 UHF RF Transceiver

Posted by Ken Cheung in Wireless on Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Semtech's (Nasdaq:SMTC) SX1211 is a UHF radio frequency (RF) transceiver with the industry's lowest receiver (RX) current consumption (<3mA), significantly increasing battery life in wireless sensor network applications. The SX1211 is optimized for asynchronous sensor network designs in the unlicensed industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency bands (868-870 MHz and 902-928 MHz) where low RX [...]

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