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• Analog FastSpice RF delivers noise analysis for RF circuits
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Dec 22, 2009
  Berkeley Design Automation Inc has announced AFS RF (Analog FastSpice radio frequency), which Chief Operating Officer Paul Estrada calls the industry’s first true Spice-accurate noise-analysis tool for RF circuits.
• Smooth operators communicating for communications test
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  LXI and PXI instruments and related software provide the synchronization necessary for making complex measurements, and they enable test automation in the lab.
• refDesignTOC on EDN: Electronics Design, Strategy, News
  
  Reference Design All Reference Designs SP16160CH1RB High-IF Sub-sampling Receiver Subsystem Reference Design Kit Source: National Semiconductor, 10/19/2009 The SP16160CH1RB demonstrates a high-IF sampling receiver subsystem for use in wireless infrastructure systems. The subsystem includes the
• Keep your hands off my Internet content
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Oct 8, 2009
  Net neutrality is critical to ensuring that consumers, not deep-pocketed content providers in secret deals with service providers, determine what content they want to access.
• Optimizing reliability and power efficiency in embedded wireless systems
  
  Author: By Jonathan Sujarit, Cypress Semiconductor | Date: Jul 23, 2009
  You can apply dynamic-data-rate and dynamic-output-power techniques to ensure that wireless messages get through with minimal power consumption.
• Mouser Electronics and LS Research sign global distribution agreement
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Oct 23, 2009
  Mouser's LS Research stock includes the full line of LS Research ModFLEX products. The product line includes FCC precertified wireless modules, as well as development kits and supporting hardware, which enable customers to add wireless connectivity to virtually any application.
• T-Mobile's G1: Google's Android OS emerges
  
  Author: By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor | Date: Sep 17, 2009
  Discover some interesting facts about the two primary PCBs (printed-circuit boards) inside the premier Google Android offering.
• UWB IC targets handset, automotive, and industrial uses
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Europe Editor | Date: Oct 30, 2008
  Staccato Communications’ second-generation UWB (ultrawideband) Ripcord2 IC integrates RF-front-end, digital-baseband, MAC (media-access-controller), and I/O functions. The single-chip, all-CMOS device covers WiMedia bands 1, 3, and 6 and has a frequency range of 3 to 9 GHz. The device uses standard
• ST-NXP Wireless changes name to ST-Ericsson, 85% of employees in R&D
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Feb 12, 2009
  ST-NXP Wireless becomes ST-Ericsson, representing the 50/50 wireless joint venture's parent company Ericsson. Almost 85% of ST-Ericsson's 8000 employee workforce is in R&D.
• FROM EDN EUROPE: CSR to widen software reach with UbiNetics acquisition
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet |
  Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), vendor of single-chip solutions for the Bluetooth and WiFi markets, has acquired software company UbiNetics. Like CSR, UbiNetics is based in Cambridge (UK) and specialises in protocol software for mobile-phone designs. Earlier this year, UbiNetics announced its PUMA
• EDN names winners of 18th Annual Innovation Awards
  
  Author: By Staff | Date: Apr 14, 2008
  In a ceremony tonight in San Jose, EDN bestowed its 18th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced.
• FROM EDN EUROPE: UWB emerges from the noise
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Editor |
  Ultra-Wideband (UWB), in its seemingly halting path towards standardisation and product introduction, has already witnessed a technology stand-off, radical change in product objectives, the dissolution of an IEEE working group and much more besides. The arguing may not stop, but silicon is here,
• Designing a short-range RF link into a consumer-electronics product
  
  Author: By Eric Welch, Keyspan | Date: Jul 8, 2008
  Case study: Learn from the pitfalls and heartaches of a design team that started from scratch to integrate short-range RF into an iPod accessory.
• Wireless to go
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Feb 4, 2010
  Vendors are serving up a variety of hardware and software flavors to add communications capability to fixed and mobile devices.
• CSR hits $6 parts cost for DSP-Bluetooth headset
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Editor, EDN Europe | Date: May 13, 2008
  In the world of Bluetooth-headset design, every cent of the BOM (bill of materials) counts. With that fact in mind, CSR has introduced single-chip devices with BOM figures of $5 and $6. The BlueVox2 headset costs $5, and the extra $1 adds DSP for active noise cancellation to remove ambient sounds
• Trolling for gold in the BlackBerry Bold
  
  Author: By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor | Date: May 28, 2009
  Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold gets a tech inspection courtesty of an EDN partnership with phoneWreck.
• 3G wireless data: about to break?
  
  Author: By Ann R Thryft, Contributing Technical Editor | Date: Nov 13, 2008
  Although the definitions of 3 and 4G wireless data networks, services, and terminals have been moving targets, some long-promised 3G capabilities are starting to appear. Meanwhile, 4G deployments have been delayed even further.
• Broadcom, TI combine WLAN, Bluetooth, FM
  
  Author: By Colleen Taylor | Date: Feb 6, 2007
  Broadcom and TI have separately debuted 65-nm SoCs that incorporate wireless, Bluetooth, and FM capabilities on a single die.
• Broadcom Bluetooth lands in Moto Q Smartphone
  
  Author: Staff Reporter | Date: Jun 26, 2006
  The inclusion of the Bluetooth silicon and software provides Windows-based mobile smartphone devices with Bluetooth functionality that, the companies claim, was previously available only in desktop and notebook computers.
• Tiny computer holds embedded treasure
  
  Author: By Warren Webb, Technical Editor | Date: Sep 1, 2006
  The Waysmall series from Gumstix offers designers a line of Linux-based computer systems that easily fit into the palm of your hand. Housed in an 83×36×15-mm plastic case, these miniature systems provide XScale processing power along with an MMC (MultiMedia Card) slot, two serial ports, one USB