Wireless

Designed for use in the standard ISM/SRD band of 433MHz, Shortlink's SL4300-B1 transceiver module offers customers a quick and easy way to integrate powerful wireless functionality at low cost. Providing a good fit with many applications, the transceiver features excellent performance and functionality. The SL4300-B1 offers risk free, quick time to market and low development costs and comprises a ready made module with CE marking.

Avago Technologies introduces the industry’s first ultra broadband traveling wave amplifier for high-speed digital communications applications that operate in the 30KHz to 80GHz frequency band. Avago’s AMMC-5025 amplifier provides 8 dB of small signal gain and excellent gain flatness of +/-0.7 dB along with better than 10 dB input and output return loss to provide superior performance which is ideal for use in Test and Measurement equipment,...

Adding to its range of tactical antenna products, Radiall now provides stubby GPS passive and active L1 band antennas. The passive EPL 09-13 and active EPL 09-14 antennas are enclosed in a miniature robust package requiring little space on crowded handheld equipment requiring GPS L1 band connectivity.

Fairchild Semiconductor offers designers of 3G smart phones, cell phones, set-top boxes, security cameras and notebooks a camera switch portfolio that solves compelling design challenges in these applications.

AVX Corporation has expanded its Zinc Oxide (ZnO) based varistor series to include an 18V-rated version that exhibits a low leakage current of 1µA maximum, which extends battery life in portable devices. The UltraGuard Series multilayer ceramic varistors feature non-linear, bi-directional voltage-current characteristics similar to back-to-back zener diodes with an EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) capacitor in parallel.

Vishay has announced what it says is the industry’s first high-performance multilayer ceramic chip antennas for mobile devices to cover the entire UHF band from 470 MHz to 860 MHz. Utilizing Vishay's unique materials and manufacturing technologies, the new Vishay Vitramon chip antennas comply with the MBRAI standard while maintaining small outlines of 35 mm by 5 mm by 1.2 mm for the VJ 3505, and 10.5 mm by 15.5 mm by 1.2 mm for the VJ 6040.

TRaC, Europe’s premier ZigBee test house, has announced it has completed validation of its ZigBee Home Automation test service by the ZigBee Alliance and is now offering certification testing against the ZigBee Home Automation public application profile, enabling its OEM customers to place ZigBee Home Automation compliant products in the market. This recent addition to TRaC’s testing services expands its existing ZigBee testing abilit...

Wolfson Microelectronics has announced the launch of a new family of low power CODECs designed to enhance the audio performance and extend the battery life of portable applications. The WM8944, WM8945, WM8946 and WM8948 are the latest additions to Wolfson's successful portfolio of low power CODECs, and are targeted at portable applications including digital still cameras, digital camcorders and voice recorders.

Farnell has announced the availability of a new range of high quality accessories to support Wireless M2M applications based around the market leading Cinterion Wireless Module Range. The new range of products includes innovative solutions for integrating Cinterion Modules on the PCB, IP67- rated antenna cable assemblies and GSM antenna, and an IP67-rated industrial enclosure ideal for pilot programs in M2M applications for remote monitoring and ...

Texas Instruments introduced today an integrated, high-linearity, low-noise intermediate frequency (IF) transceiver with cross-polarization interference cancellation (XPIC) support. The TRF2443 enables designers to reduce solution cost by 40 percent, power consumption by 30 percent, and space by 40 percent, as compared to discrete implementations.