Communications

Oxford Semiconductor is to benefit from Intel’s decision to design a Firewire high speed comms interface into its motherboards. “Intel have eventually seen the light and designed 1394b (Firewire) into their motherboard. They’re already starting to be manufactured in Taiwan,” Dr Jalil Oraee, founder and chief technology officer of Oxford Semiconductor, told Electronics Weekly. The interface, aimed at consumer applications, ...

The various types of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology will be able to co-exist, with each finding its own applications, according to US firm Pulse-Link. The two main flavours of UWB are multiband-OFDM, which is being pushed by the WiMedia Alliance, and direct sequence, which is being championed by the UWB Forum. Pulse-Link, a member of the UWB Forum, is pioneering a ...

Siemens has agreed to sell its entire mobile phone business with over 6,000 employees worldwide to Taiwan-based consumer electronics firm BenQ. The business will be headquartered in Munich, Germany, and as part of the deal BenQ will have the right to use the Siemens brand and name for a total of five years. Siemens will also acquire €50m worth of ...

A 3G mobile phone development platform aims to open the way to greater differentiation of handset design, using standard and proprietary applications software elements. By combining a software interface layer with established tools and around 50 pre-integrated handset applications, Cambridge-based TTPCom claimed progress from design to production can be less than four months “from a standing start”. The interface layer, ...

Trials which will influence the commercial rollout of unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology are being undertaken by seven European operators using Motorola’s technology, although rollout will also depend on handset availability. “Commercial availability will depend… on the success of these trials, which are technology and user behaviour trials. So we’ll see what the outcome of them is,” said Tom Mockridge, ...

Supporting the evolving bandwidth needs of the next-generation wireless and networking infrastructure, IDT has added devices to its multi-port and first-in/first-out (FIFO) families. The 36Mbit synchronous dual-port device offers the industry’s largest density and delivers 133MHz performance to address demanding applications such as wireless base stations, routers, and Ethernet, ATM and storage switches. Likewise, the TeraSync FIFO is the first ...

IDT has expanded its portfolio of packet-exchange flow-control management (FCM) products to include a new multi-function suite of system packet interface (SPI) devices. The packet-exchange family includes three products that solve interconnect problems in Core/Metro/Edge-based networking markets. It comprises integrated solutions supporting 10Gbit/s packet processing and offers a wide range of options for logical port density and buffering capabilities, ranging ...

IDT has proved its commitment to standards-based serial switching with the introduction of its PRECISE family of PCI Express devices, consisting of four bridging and switching products. Aimed at high-performance server and storage applications, the PRECISE family will provide cost-effective PCI Express I/O expansion and bridging solutions.  IDT will also offer customers a complete hardware/software development kit that includes evaluation ...

Several new products for DDR2-667 registered dual in-line memory modules (R-DIMMs) have been launched by IDT.  The products include a set of phase-locked loop (PLL) clock drivers and register products, as well as the industry’s only DDR2 667MHz register validation board (RVB). Expanding its industry-leading DDR2 product portfolio to support the new, higher performance speed-grade standard, IDT offers customers an ...

To address the evolving needs of next-generation clock networks, IDT has announced a new family of programmable clock generators.  The devices leverage the EEPROM-based programmable platform from previous generations of IDT programmable clocks along with an enhanced, multi phase-locked loop (PLL) architecture to provide customers with an uncompromised combination of versatility and performance. The inclusion of an IEEE 1149.1a compliant ...