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Table Of Contents
Digital input, Class-D amplifier employs closed loop feedback for improving sound quality
Agilent, Azimuth partnership readies complete FMC test solution
Arcadian Networks gets new CEO
WPI Professor gets NSF award for new concepts in wireless networking
Symmetricom's CEO joins ATIS board of directors
VHF coverage added to in-building antenna
Software extracts device models from semiconductor process targets
Silicon oscillator matches quartz performance at lower cost
RF amplifier targets FTTH applications
Microphone array amplifier reduces background noise
BAN standardization takes a big step forward
Standardizing Transceiver APIs for Software Defined and Cognitive Radio
Events


News

Digital input, Class-D amplifier employs closed loop feedback for improving sound quality
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director
 To improve sound quality, reduce power demands and lower audio subsystem costs, semiconductor giant Texas Instruments Inc. has developed what it claims is the industry's first digital-input, 20-Watt stereo Class-D speaker amplifier with closed loop feedback.

Agilent, Azimuth partnership readies complete FMC test solution
Agilent Technologies Inc. and Azimuth Systems have announced a partnership to create a complete fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) test solution.

Arcadian Networks gets new CEO
Arcadian Networks, a wireless communications carrier for energy companies with dispersed assets (electric, gas and water utilities, and oil and gas companies), has promoted Ed Solar as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the company.

WPI Professor gets NSF award for new concepts in wireless networking
Wenjing Lou, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a five-year, $450,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Symmetricom's CEO joins ATIS board of directors
Symmetricom, Inc. has announced that its president and CEO Thomas Steipp has joined the board of directors of the Alliance of Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).

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Products

VHF coverage added to in-building antenna
Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. has added VHF frequencies to its Universal Access Ceiling Monopole (UACM) antenna.

Software extracts device models from semiconductor process targets
Agilent Technologies Inc. has released a software package that extracts models from semiconductor manufacturing process targets.

Silicon oscillator matches quartz performance at lower cost
Advances such as improved long-term frequency stability and thermal hysteresis have allowed microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators to pose a serious challenge to quartz crystal resonators.

RF amplifier targets FTTH applications
Based on its popular ACA2601, Anadigics, Inc. has released a new RF amplifier ACA2604 for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) applications.

Microphone array amplifier reduces background noise
National Semiconductor Corp. has unwrapped the first in a line of audio products incorporating far-field noise suppression technology.

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News & Features From RF Design Magazine

BAN standardization takes a big step forward
As the aging population across the globe increases, the worldwide demand for better heathcare, real-time patient monitoring and faster recovery, and consumer convenience is sharply rising.

Standardizing Transceiver APIs for Software Defined and Cognitive Radio
This article introduces the key features of the transceiver API facility, underlining the main benefits of the approach, and presents the SDR Forum Transceiver Sub-system Interfaces Task Force and the associated standardization stakeholders.


Calendar

Events
CTIA Wireless
April 1-3, 2008
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV
www.ctiawireless.com

Next-Generation Networks and Basestations
 April 22-25
Bath, UK
www.avrenevents.com/bath2008

NIST-ATIS Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunication Systems (WSTS '08)
May 13-15
The Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, Colorado
www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/080513.htm


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