News and technical information for engineers focusing on the design of chips, software, subsystems, and systems for the consumer-electronics market, including mobile devices, home-entertainment systems, displays, home networking, and personal computing.
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Small-signal bandwidth in a Big Bandwidth era
Bill Laumeister, Maxim Integrated Products Inc, February 2, 2012Understand the interplay between bandwidth and op-amp specifications. More -
Implement an audio-frequency tilt-equalizer filter
Francesco Balena, Electro-Acoustic Design, Conselve (PD), Italy; Edited by Margery Conner and Fran Granville, February 2, 2012Developing the transfer functions lets you customize the filter. More -
Sorting out 4G: Are we there yet?
Janine Love, Contributing Editor, January 30, 2012Thanks to clever marketing campaigns and branding, the general public believes that 4G has arrived. The performance of 4G/LTE mobile handsets has improved, and designers are pushing the outer limits of performance in all parts of the handset. In many cases, the limitation is available spectrum, so designers must develop creative approaches until governments act. More -
TI ups its smart grid offerings
Nicolas Mokhoff, EE Times, January 23, 2012Texas Instruments claims the industry's first demonstration of a radio frequency system-on-chip that integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz) radio, an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, and enough flash and RAM to run the ZigBee IP stack and SE2.0 profile. More -
LSI expands licensing deal with ARM
Peter Clarke, EE Times, January 23, 2012Under the agreement LSI is gaining access to the family of ARM processor cores, including the Cortex-A15 with virtualization support and future ARM processors. More -
Trial shows active antenna can raise cell capacity 40%
Peter Clarke, EE Times, January 23, 2012A US network trial for the LTE 700-MHz active antenna from startup Ubidyne has demonstrated a 40% increase in cell capacity. More -
Wireless temperature monitor has data-logging capabilities
Tom Au-Yeung and Wilson Tang, Maxim Integrated Products, Sunnyvale, CA; Edited by Paul Rako and Fran Granville, January 19, 2012You can make a wireless temps system with two ICs. More -
Use a photoelectric-FET optocoupler as a linear voltage-controlled potentiometer
Sajjad Haidar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Edited by Paul Rako and Fran Granville, January 19, 2012The circuit takes advantage of an identical photo-FET as a feedback element. More -
DesignCon memory preview
Janine Love, Editor, EE Times' Memory Designline, January 9, 2012Here are some memory-related DesignCon presentation and forum highlights. More -
Future of computers - Part 2: The Power Wall
Russell Fish III, January 5, 2012Continuing his take on the future of computers, and multicore processing in particular, processor expert Russell Fish turns his attention to the "Power Wall" - the increasing heat and power issues associated with increased performance. More
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