Wireless & Communications

NXP Semiconductors has unveiled its new Gen8+ LDMOS RF power transistors – an expansion of its eighth-generation LDMOS product line for wireless base stations with a strong focus on TD-LTE. As China prepares to roll out the world’s largest 4G network, the Gen8+ is intended to enhance NXP’s TD-LTE portfolio and deliver significant improvements in performance, flexibility and cost-efficiency.

B&B Electronics Manufacturing Company has released its iMcV-Giga FiberLinX-III gigabit intelligent Ethernet media converter. This third generation of the company’s successful FiberLinX family is a 10/100/1000Mbps copper to 1000Mbps fibre device, converting existing copper wiring-based networks to fibre optics. . The converter securely transmits data from end to end over fibre (up to 100Km), well beyond copper’s distance limitation (328 ft., 100 m). The announcement follows the company’s acquisition of IMC Networks in June 2012.

LPRS has announced that it will be launching its new low cost easyRadio Integrated Controller – eRIC - at the upcoming Fortronic RF and Wireless Technical Forum on June 25th at the Williams F1 conference centre near Oxford. Despite being half the size of the long established and field proven easyRadio range, eRIC (easyRadio Integrated Controller) is still able to offer many of the easyRadio features and benefits of eRA (easyRadio Advanced).

Universities and research establishments across the EU are to gain access to the open source RF hardware platform, MyriadRF, and configurable transceiver technology following a deal between Lime Microsystems and Europractice, a project of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Peregrine Semiconductor has released four new DuNE Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTCs), in a move that creates the industry’s broadest integrated RF tuning IC portfolio. The PE64906, PE64907, PE64908 and PE64909 DTCs feature a wide capacitance range of 0.6 – 7.7 pF and support power handling up to 34 dBm into 50 Ohms (30 Vpk RF).

Dialog Semiconductor, a provider of integrated power management, audio and short-range wireless technologies, has launched SmartBond, said to be the world’s lowest power and smallest Bluetooth Smart System-on-Chip (SoC), which is able to more than double the battery life of an app-enabled smartphone accessory or computer peripheral in comparison to competing solutions currently on the market.

Link Microtek, a RF and microwave specialist, has unveiled the LF9287 triplexer LC filter, which has been designed to support private mobile radio (PMR) real-time communications between different branches of the emergency services. Manufactured by US company MtronPTI, the triplexer provides radio-system designers with a space-saving solution for connecting a single transceiver to multiple antennas in vehicle-mounted PMR systems.

Peregrine Semiconductor, the fabless provider of high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), is making available a new SPDT RF switch for harsh environment and space applications. Manufactured on the company’s UltraCMOS technology, the PE95421 switch is highly resistant to total dose and single event radiation effects.

MIMOtech, a specialist in high capacity point-to-point radios, has announced the launch of the Starburst Janus, an ultra high capacity packet radio for last mile backhaul. Starburst Janus uses a multi-antenna technology yielding a spectral efficiency of 25b/s per Hz.

Peregrine Semiconductor, a fabless provider of high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), has launched the industry’s highest-isolation SPDT RF switch for the wireless infrastructure market. The UltraCMOS based PE42420 RF switch has high isolation of 64 dB @ 4 GHz—an approximately 20% increase over competing devices on the market.