Wireless & Communications

ams AG has announced that US-based DeviceFidelity is using unique ams RF technology in its latest CredenSE 2.10 Near Field Communication (NFC) microSD card to enable secure and certified NFC transmissions between any mobile phone and contactless payment terminals from Visa and MasterCard.

New from Link Microtek is a portable radar signal generator that is specifically designed for military applications in field or maritime environments, where it can be used for either testing radar receivers or training operators in object detection and recognition and electronic warfare.

Peregrine Semiconductor, the developer of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer in advanced RF solutions, has launched UltraCMOS Global 1, the first reconfigurable RF front end (RFFE). For the first time, 4G LTE platform providers and OEMs will be able to save time and money by creating a single-SKU design for global markets that have to support over 40 frequency bands.

Aeroflex Limited has unveiled an extended version of its TM500 industry-standard base station tester capable of emulating several thousand LTE user equipments (UE), fading channel models, and LTE-A carrier aggregation functionality in a one-box benchtop unit.

Sierra Wireless has launched two new AirPrime embedded wireless modules for 4G LTE networks. The AirPrime EM7340 and EM7345 are based on Intel chipsets and have been designed for integration into notebook computers and tablets, with a standardised M.2 form factor suitable for small, thin devices.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions (MACOM), a supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, has announced a new GaN on SiC HEMT Power Transistor for L-Band pulsed radar applications. The MAGX-000912-500L00 provides 500 W of output power with 19.8 dB of gain and 60% efficiency.

Spanish company, Farsens S.L., has unveiled the TITAN a battery free RFID bistable relay tag. These tags are compatible with commercial EPC C1G2 readers and can be wirelessly activated and deactivated via their unique ID and the relay keeps its latest status even when the RFID reader is gone.

NextG-Com, a UK technology specialist company, working in embedded software products and services for LTE, M2M and satellite communications, has developed a low-cost LTE protocol test platform on host compliant to 3GPP Release 11 specification. The XANTHUS 203 is a protocol conformance test framework that allows the execution of TTCN3 36.523 Test Cases as published by ETSI.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) is expanding its RF signal chain portfolio with a high-performance digital pre-distortion (DPD) demodulator. The new integrated DPD demodulator is able to improve system performance while reducing the cost, physical size and power consumption in 4G, 3G, and 2G wireless base stations and repeaters.

Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has introduced a new starter kit to help users of its TC35661SBG-501 (“Chiron-501”) Dual Mode Bluetooth IC (BT 4.0) to get up and running with their designs quickly. The starter kit (BMSKTOPASM369BT) is based around a Panasonic PAN1026 module featuring an embedded “Chiron-501” IC with a dual mode Bluetooth protocol stack and profiles and includes a Toshiba TMPM369 ARM Cortex-M3 based MCU with 512KB flash memory.