May 9, 2012 Four MMIC upconverter and downconverter devices from RFMD offer high performance and low cost for high frequency applications. The RFUV1702 and RFUV1703 upconverters incorporate an integrated frequency multiplier (x2), LO buffer amplifier, a balanced single sideband (image rejection) mixer followed by variable gain amplifier, and DC-decoupling capacitors. Read more

May 4, 2012 CML Microcircuits has released a new digital voice scrambler for analog radio system. The CMX7011 is a flexible, half duplex, digital voice processor specifically designed to implement a digital voice scrambler for use with conventional radio communication systems. Read more

May 2, 2012 DragonWave has expanded its portfolio to deliver broader frequency coverage and extended application support. Augmenting an existing full range of proven, innovative products, DragonWave now adds the Horizon S-Series, a sub-6 GHz radio suited for non-line-of-sight applications such as those required for public safety and state and local governments, as well as certain microcellular backhaul applications. Read more

April 30, 2012 EB (Elektrobit Corporation) has introduced the EB Propsim F32 radio channel emulator for testing the performance of wireless networks, base stations, terminals and chipsets utilizing multi-antenna and multi-radio technologies. Read more

April 30, 2012 TriQuint Semiconductor has released two compact, digitally-controlled variable gain amplifiers (DVGAs) that integrate key functionality and can reduce BOM (bill of material) part counts. Read more

April 23, 2012 Designed to test applications at designated locations, the s-net evaluation kit “DATA“ released by the Fraunhofer IIS comprises a master and five sensor nodes, which independently set up a radio network as well as a pre-installed application template. Read more

April 19, 2012 NXP Semiconductors has made a new addition to its highly successful family of RFCMOS-based one-chip car radio solutions. The TEF664x integrates a low-IF AM/FM tuner and DSP processing all in one chip and is designed for single-tuner applications. Read more

April 18, 2012 Hittite Microwave has announced a highly integrated HMC6000/6001 silicon transceiver chipset which targets 60 GHz applications such as: metrocell/picocell backhaul, WiGig (IEEE 802.11ad) multi-Gbps solutions including wireless cable replacement (HDMI, USB 3.0, DisplayPort), wireless docking stations, video/magazine kiosks and wireless sensors. Read more

April 16, 2012 RF Monolithics, Inc., (RFM), a leader in machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Murata Electronics North America, Inc., for $1.78 per share to holders of RFM common shares, representing an 80% premium over the Nasdaq closing price as of April 12, 2012. Read more

April 11, 2012 ​Global capital expenditure weakened in 4Q2011 for many mobile operators as they trimmed their budgets for the remainder of 2011. However confidence is returning in the first half of 2012 as operators start to switch over from LTE trial to commercial service in a number of markets. Read more

April 10, 2012 Crystek's CVCO55CC-2558-2575 VCO operates from 2558 MHz to 2575 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.3 V to 4.7 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -120 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +8 dBm. Read more

April 9, 2012 Nokia Siemens Networks has been ranked at the top of the latest 2012 LTE Base Station Vendor Matrix from ABI Research. Read more

April 4, 2012 Signalion has announced that the SORBAS LTE Test-UE now supports the 3GPP LTE TDD bands 42 and 43 (3.4 GHz – 3.8 GHz). Read more

April 4, 2012 Wireless equipment vendors performed well in the fourth quarter of 2011. While finishing strong in the last quarter of every calendar year is typical for vendors in this market, Huawei exceeded expectations and overcame Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to grab second place in the market. As usual, Ericsson was the market leader, with approximately US$3.5 billion in wireless network equipment sales during 4Q2011. Read more

April 2, 2012 Signalion’s successful RF module in AMC form factor AMC-SRRM replaces Remote Radio Heads (RRH) in development, trial and prototyping environments. Read more

March 29, 2012 A low power, IF/RF quadrature demodulator IC from CML Microcircuits, the CMX970 offers exceptionally low power consumption and high performance over the operating range of 20 to 250 MHz. Read more

March 12, 2012 MSC offers a new line of LC filters from Precision Devices Inc., (PDI) that meets the highest quality standards. The initial standard products available are band pass, low pass, high pass and notch LC filters with a 10% bandwidth in the frequency range of 5 MHz to 100 MHz. These LC filters are ideally suited for radio, navigation and communication applications. Read more

March 8, 2012 The exponential growth in mobile data traffic in the next decade, coupled with global spectrum scarcity, is forcing service providers and operators to push the limits on capacity and throughput for their limited spectrum. This is in turn driving a need for next-generation base stations able to support dramatically wider bandwidth, significantly more signal channels and more protocols (2G/3G/4G) in each band. 3GPP’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard is meeting the need for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. Read more

March 5, 2012 A group of Italian and Swedish researchers appears to have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be broadcast and received. Furthermore, the researchers have demonstrated this in real-life conditions by beaming two twisted radio waves across the waters of Venice. Read more

March 2, 2012 China Mobile wants to turn computer servers into cellular base stations. The world’s largest carrier discussed at the Mobile World Congress here its effort to use data center technologies to radically lower the cost and power consumption of cellular networks. Read more

March 1, 2012 Celcite Management Solutions has launched its iCOPS intuitive dashboard as part of its COPS-SON platform. iCOPS covers all technologies, including LTE, and is a powerful web enabled portal that provides wireless networks operators with a broad and intuitive view of the entire radio network. Read more

February 29, 2012 Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have signed a co-creation agreement under which teams from the two companies are conducting joint development and test activities on a series of lightRadio projects at Alcatel-Lucent’s Stuttgart lab. The work will help to accelerate the smooth commercial introduction of this groundbreaking product family to meet China Mobile’s business initiatives and support growing customer demand for high-bandwidth mobile broadband services. Read more

February 28, 2012 HiSilicon and imec have signed a strategic research collaboration to develop innovative RF transceiver architectures for next-generation mobile terminals. With the partnership, HiSilicon joins the imec R&D program on cognitive reconfigurable radio to jointly conceive low-power and compact high-performance reconfigurable RF transceivers leveraging on state-of-the-art CMOS technology. Read more

February 27, 2012 Mesaplexx, a start-up company specialising in developing products and intellectual property in electromagnetic engineering and high performance filters, has announced the launch of xCube™ at Mobile World Congress 2012. This revolutionary radio filter technology has the capability to radically improve the performance of active antenna systems (AASs), enabling increases in network capacity of up to 65 per cent. Read more

February 26, 2012 Ericsson played the standards game for a winning hand in LTE, according to a missive from an ABI Research analyst here at the Mobile World Congress. They are neither the first nor the last to play that game. Read more

February 22, 2012 Medical electronics researchers showed advances in self-propelled implants and body area networks at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Read more

February 22, 2012 Multi-channel telecommand transmitter and receiver modules, available from LPRS, feature a high performance narrow band FM (MSK) wireless design. Read more

February 22, 2012 There is only one way to build an effective Active Antenna System (AAS) according to Ubidyne that will be featuring its LTE 700MHz uB700™ and 900MHz uB900™ Antenna Embedded Radios at this month’s Mobile World Congress 2012. While there are multiple AAS architectures, Ubidyne believes it is vital to have one transceiver or M-Radio per antenna radiator. This means that an antenna with 16 radiators - or eight cross polar radiators - will also have 16 transceivers. Read more

February 22, 2012 Aeroflex has announced automated test and alignment capabilities for MOTOTRBO™ portable radios on the Aeroflex 3920 Digital Radio Test Set. Read more

February 3, 2012 Qualcomm has announced that, working with Ericsson AB, it has completed a voice call handover from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA network using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) technology. Read more

February 1, 2012 Meru Networks has announced a rugged outdoor Wi-Fi access point designed to deliver uncompromising wireless in outdoor environments. The Meru OAP433e brings state-of-the-art, virtualized Wi-Fi to the thousands of devices being used across education and corporate campuses, hotels, shopping malls and stadiums. Read more

January 25, 2012 A U.S. network trial for the LTE 700-MHz active antenna from startup Ubidyne GmbH (Ulm, Germany) has demonstrated a 40 percent increase in cell capacity, the company said. The result, which exceeded Ubidyne's own predictions, could delay the need to invest in small cells to extend coverage. Read more

January 20, 2012 Texas Instruments claims to have introduced the industry's fastest, highest-performance analog front end (AFE) for femtocell base stations and portable software-defined radio (SDR) applications. The low-power, 12-bit AFE7225 integrates a dual 125-MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and dual 250-MSPS digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Read more

January 19, 2012 Cambridge Consultants has launched a reference design for low cost, high performance radio microphones using the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) platform. By taking advantage of DECT, the radio microphone design delivers higher audio quality with no interference and quadruples the range of existing radio microphone technology, whilst also lowering the total bill of materials (BOM) costs to under $12 for each microphone. Read more

January 19, 2012 The KB-39500 39.5 GHz Ka-band frequency synthesizer from EM Research is ideal for radar, fixed/mobile (VSAT), satellite communications, digital radio and millimeter wave. Custom units are available in fixed and programmable frequencies from 12 GHz to 40 GHz. Read more

December 6, 2011 Signalion announces the first test system for complete RRH testing — enabling easy-to-use conformance tests for RRH without the need to connect the RRH to a base station. Read more

December 5, 2011 Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled an expansion of its KeyStone multicore architecture for emerging cloud radio access network (C-RAN) applications and network server developers. Specifically, TI is scaling its KeyStone SoC architecture for the emerging paradigm of C-RAN base stations, enabling the creation of device pools with immense capacity for manufacturers to develop high performance and power efficient C-RAN base station clusters. Read more

November 25, 2011 The CTH family of portable radio test sets from Rohde & Schwarz were designed for fast and easy testing of analog FM radios in the field. Both test sets perform frequency and power measurements on transmitters and receivers. Read more

November 24, 2011 Anite has announced that its Development Toolset (DT) now supports extensive LTE (Long Term Evolution) Multi-RAT (Multiple Radio Access Technology) testing. Read more

November 23, 2011 Signalion announces the first LTE UE-Simulator/Test-UE with a frequency-agile and FDD/TDD capable radio front-end. Read more

November 22, 2011 Silicon Laboratories has introduced the Si476x automotive tuner IC family designed to deliver high RF performance coupled with advanced signal processing while reducing cost and complexity of car radio systems. Read more

November 16, 2011 An innovative, multi-measurement capability is being added to Agilent Technologies' 89600 VSA software, enabling simultaneous signal analysis of multiple carriers and signal formats for more efficient testing and deeper signal insight in wireless test. Read more

November 14, 2011 Two FM receiver ICs from NXP enable designers to implement scanning and data functions in car infotainment systems as a background functionality. The devices decode the signals of the Radio Data System (RDS), Radio Broadcast Data System (EBDS) and Traffic Message Channel (TMS) and thus provide sweeping infotainment functionality to the user. Read more

November 9, 2011 Redline Communications Group has announced its high end licensed microwave product the RDL-5000, a high capacity, high power, packet microwave radio platform for telecom backhaul and large enterprise connectivity that delivers throughput of up to 800 megabits per second. Read more

November 2, 2011 The increasing processing power pushed by the smartphone market finally enables an upgrade path to automotive and mobile devices, to avoid the need for specialized DSPs. EtherWaves has just announced a new version of its ClearSignal software based DAB/DMB solution that executes on Linux-based OS's, such as those used for automotive In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), for mobile devices and for tablet computers. Read more

October 27, 2011 CommAgility has successfully completed interoperability testing of its AMC-2C6670 AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) with a MTI Remote Radio Head (RRH) equipped with CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface), as well as with a Xilinx CPRI IP core. Read more

October 12, 2011 Silex's latest Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi radio modules and security supplicant software offerings are now integrated and available for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY real-time operating system – the foundation for its Platform for Secure Wireless Devices. Read more

October 4, 2011 Automotive-related radio communications is an increasingly difficult terrain: Where once AM and FM receivers completely met the requirements of automotive infotainment, today a vast diversity of different standards is in use to interconnect the car with its environment - and the diverse electronic devices inside the car among each other. For automotive OEMs, this situation is increasingly a challenge. In order to keep hardware complexity at bay, BMW has joined forces with a number of partners and implemented a software-defined radio platform capable to handle the diversity of standards. Read more

October 4, 2011 Freescale Semiconductor has introduced an ultra-low-power, sub-1-GHz smart radio for use in smart metering, medical, building and home automation applications. With its MC12311 radio Freescale is expanding its wireless portfolio beyond its 2.4 GHz devices. The MC12311 platform combines a sub-1 GHz RF transceiver and an 8-bit HCS08 microcontroller in a single land grid array package. Read more

October 4, 2011 The European Space Center, ESA/ESTEC, has selected a radio communication controller chip from fabless semiconductor company, GreenPeak Technologies, for use in aerospace applications and has endorsed the device for its superior RF performance, ultra-low power requirement and excellent interference robustness. Read more

September 20, 2011 Hittite Microwave Corporation has released two SMT packaged GaAs MMIC variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) which are ideal for VSAT, microwave radio, military, and test and measurement equipment applications from 5 to 27 GHz. Read more

September 20, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor has introduced its next-generation 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB™ Radio-on-a-Chip. Designated WirelessUSB NL it delivers robust performance along with low power consumption for wireless keyboards, mice, remote controls and other Human Interface Devices (HIDs). The devices are offered in 4 x 4 mm QFN packages, in bare die, and in wafer form. Read more

September 14, 2011 It's taken a decade and half for 15 percent of the world's licensed mobile radio users to move from analogue to digital; however, the next five years will see this percentage more than double. This is one of the key findings from IMS Research's just published report “Licensed Mobile Radio – World – 2011” Read more

September 7, 2011 Ceragon Networks Ltd., has released the FibeAir® IP-10C, a compact, all-outdoor, high-capacity wireless packet backhaul solution — as the latest member of the widely deployed FibeAir IP-10 family. This integrated, ultra-compact solution delivers up to 1 Gbps of IP traffic on a single radio channel. Able to withstand harsh weather conditions, the low-power, environmentally sound backhaul unit is easily mounted on rooftops, lamp posts, traffic light poles, and in small outdoor mobile cell-sites. Read more

August 29, 2011 Systems based on the Rohde & Schwarz M3SR Series 4400 VHF/UHF radio family are being used for the production phase of the VHF and UHF emergency radio system for both Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers being built for the UK Navy. Read more

August 23, 2011 To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using plastic film and metallic thread. In the current issue of the journal IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, they report a new antenna design with a range four times larger than that of a conventional antenna worn on the body – one that is used by American soldiers today. Read more

August 17, 2011 Radio Data Technology (RDT) has released their latest RM6000 GPRS modem routers following successful field trials in the water and traffic management industries. Read more

August 11, 2011 National Semiconductor Corp., has introduced a pair of quad- and dual-channel, digital variable gain amplifiers (DVGA) that enable higher-performance wideband radio systems. The LMH6522 quad and LMH6521 dual DVGAs provide superior linearity performance over a wide frequency range, making them an ideal solution for the most challenging multi-channel wideband wireless systems. Read more

August 10, 2011 Aeroflex has released the 390XOPT604 automatic test and alignment software option for Motorola's APX 7000 and 7500 mobile radios. The APX Series radios are dual band and can be configured with any two band combinations. The application will test and align both bands. Mobile power alignment is included in this option and alignment time for both bands on the APX mobile is approximately 16 minutes. Read more

August 9, 2011 Short-range radio device supplier, LPRS, is now shipping production quantities of its latest generation of wireless modules, easyRadio Advanced (eRA). Manufactured in the UK, eRA is said to offer significant improvements over earlier generations of easyRadio products and incorporates the latest version of LPRS’s easyRadio software protocol; said to remove the complexities of developing a software interface to the wireless modules. Read more

July 26, 2011 Network infrastructure chip maker Mindspeed Technologies Inc., has said it acquired substantially all of the assets of San Diego-based wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) signal processing SoC vendor IPG Communications Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more

July 13, 2011 CML Microcircuits has launched a single chip digital private mobile radio (dPMR) baseband processor. The CMX8341 is targeted directly at low cost, licence free digital PMR (dPMR) radios conforming to the ETSI standard, TS102 490. Read more

July 12, 2011 National Semiconductor Corp., has introduced a family of analog-to-digital converters that the company claims are the industry’s first to directly sample RF signals beyond 2.7 GHz, with third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) up to -71 dBc and sampling at up to 3.6 GSPS. Read more

July 6, 2011 Laird Technologies' Cattron division has announced its enhanced MMCU-4 radio remote control receiver. As part of the CattronControl™ series of remote control systems, the MMCU-4 is a highly configurable modular radio remote control receiver that features four slots which can utilize a variety of I/O cards such as output cards with relays, analog outputs, opto-coupler outputs and input cards for analog and digital signals. Read more

June 29, 2011 CEVA, Inc., and CellGuide have announced a partnership to offer a software-based GPS solution for the CEVA-XC communications processor. Leveraging CellGuide's GPS/GLONASS software IP, CEVA-XC licensees can add GPS capability to their processor designs without any hardware modifications or increase in die size. Read more

June 29, 2011 TriQuint Semiconductor has released four linear low noise amplifiers (LNAs) that eliminate matching components in a wide range of high-performance broadband applications including 3G/4G base station networks. Read more

June 27, 2011 Alps Electric GmbH offers with the TDGA6 series compact HD Radio tuner modules for automotive applications that have been pre-certified by the US-based iBiquity Digital Corporation for worldwide use with its HD Radio technology. Read more

June 22, 2011 CML Microsystems has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder products from Spirit Corp., (Spirit), a Moscow based software company. Read more

June 22, 2011 Microsemi Corporation has announced a design guide for developing next-generation high-voltage, high-power systems based on the company's unique digital radio frequency (DRF) family of hybrid modules. Read more

June 22, 2011 Libelium completed its Smart Cities platform with a new sensor board aimed at measuring noise pollution, dust quantities, structural health and garbage levels. This board may be combined in a network with previously available sensor boards, for gas monitoring, radiation detection and smart parking, thus offering a comprehensive range of sensors for urban use. System integrators can now deploy a heterogeneous wireless sensor network with a combination of sensor boards to support a comprehensive range of city council services. Read more

June 20, 2011 Microsoft, Nokia and Samsung are among 11 companies that are coming together for a White Spaces Consortium launch event being organized on behalf of Neul Ltd., by the Cambridge Wireless networking organization. Read more

June 16, 2011 It is clear that James Collier and Glenn Collinson, two of the founders of startup Neul Ltd., intend to leverage much of their successful Bluetooth experience with Cambridge Silicon Radio in their next tilt at the market. Read more

June 16, 2011 RF Industries, Ltd., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Cables Unlimited, Inc., for cash and equity consideration of approximately $5.6 million. Read more

June 15, 2011 Neul Ltd., has announced some more details of its first white-space radio network called Neulnet and the standard behind that Neul has dubbed Weightless. Read more

June 14, 2011 RF Engines Limited (RFEL) is claiming to have taken a large step towards creating the ultimate radio receiver which is capable of detecting and processing signals across all of the radio spectrum, all of the time. The UK company is introducing an innovative and highly flexible, ultra-wideband, Channelizer IP core – the ChannelCore Flex. Read more

May 26, 2011 In a move that sees it entering a new market segment of security, Rohde & Schwarz has acquired ipoque GmbH (Leipzig, Germany) a provider of software solutions that effectively detect, monitor and optimize network applications. Read more

May 23, 2011 Anritsu Company has introduced three Anritsu options for its LMR Master™ S412E handheld analyzer. With the addition of fixed WiMAX and mobile WiMAX capabilities, the analyser continues to address market needs, as WiMAX is expected to be used as a backhaul technology for distributed land mobile radio networks. Read more

May 19, 2011 IMS Research reports that on the 26th April 2011 the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the use of TETRA products in the US market for industrial, business and transport users. Read more

May 11, 2011 Analog Devices claims to offer the industry's most highly integrated wideband passive mixers for communications applications. The ADL5811 single-channel and ADL5812 dual-channel mixers deliver unmatched linearity for this class of device, low distortion and low noise combined with wideband frequency performance. Read more

May 3, 2011 NXP Semiconductors has unveiled a 16-bit dual-channel LVDS DDR interface digital-to-analog converter which supports output update rates of up to 1.25 Gsps. The company claims that the high-speed DAC offers best-in-class single tone SFDR performance and two-tone intermodulation distortion across a broad output bandwidth of 200 MHz. Read more

April 29, 2011 BEEcube Inc., (Fremont, CA) is planning moves both into the data center and software-defined radio on the road map for its FPGA development platform to be shown at the Embedded Systems Conference. Read more

April 14, 2011 Arasan Chip Systems, Inc., is claiming to be the first company to introduce a MIPI RFFE product. The standard is currently a 1.0 document. Read more

April 13, 2011 RF Monolithics has introduced the WLS-series of Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth combination modules to the company's integrated short-range radio products. With the addition of three standards-based modules – the WLS1270, WLS1271, and the WLS1273 – the RFM integrated short-range radio product line now includes high-performance standards-based technologies in addition to the company's proprietary RFIC- and SAW-based product portfolio. Read more

April 8, 2011 UHF radio frequency identification technology provider Impinj launched two critical components for implementing item-level RFID across retail markets and supply chains, the Monza 5 tag chip and the STP source tagging platform, enabling widespread scaling of RFID retail inventory management solutions. Read more

April 8, 2011 With the DX80DR multi-hop data radio, Banner Engineering extends the reach of its SureCross wireless systems by repeating transmissions in 3 km ‘hops’ to a multi-hop total of 20 km or more. Multiple units can be placed to allow signals to pass over hills and other obstacles that would block a single wireless hop. Read more

March 29, 2011 As Ofcom announces its auction plans for the wireless spectrum designated for 4G services such as high speed mobile broadband access, Low Power Radio Solutions (LPRS) launched the ARW-2400-2700-10 directional antenna for WiMax and WiFi applications. Read more

March 21, 2011 National Semiconductor has introduced a new family of clock jitter cleaners that claim to feature the industry’s lowest phase noise and rms jitter performance: 111 fs from 12 kHz to 20 MHz, and a wideband noise floor of -162 dBc/Hz at 184 MHz output frequency. The level of phase noise enhances the performance of systems used in wireless and wired communications, test and measurement, medical imaging, software defined radio (SDR) and digital broadcast applications, while reducing overall bill of materials (BOM) cost. Read more

March 11, 2011 Freescale Semiconductor claims to have introduced the industry's first system-on-chip for the two-way radio market. The MC13260 consists of an integrated 32-bit ARM-9™ processor, a software defined modem, an RF transceiver and audio converters specifically designed for the two-way radio market. Read more

March 9, 2011 Aeroflex is offering a PC-based application for sending and receiving Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) radio data, using the 3920 as the generator and receiver. With this application, it is now possible for engineers and technicians to capture data from DMR radios and repeaters and also transmit user-defined data over the air to dynamically analyze DMR radio messages and isolate transmission and receiver problems in DMR systems. Read more

March 4, 2011 Agilent Technologies announced what the company believes to be the industry’s first digital radio frequency (DigRF) V4 test solution with dual-capture capability. This software enhancement gives engineers the ability to simultaneously apply a stimulus to devices under test and analyse the results with a single instrument, the Agilent N5343A DigRF V4 exerciser. Read more

March 2, 2011 Energy Micro has revealed advance details of its forthcoming energy friendly radio (EFR) product family. Complementing the company’s EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers, EFR4D Draco high performance radio solutions will consume 25% of the energy of competing products. Based on an ARM Cortex-M0 core, Draco system-on-chip (SoC) radios will achieve receive and transmit current consumption as low as 5 mA and 6 mA respectively. Read more

February 21, 2011 Avago Technologies has announced a linear power amplifier module for mobile and fixed wireless data WiMAX applications that include WiFi and other cellular radios. Read more

February 9, 2011 Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited has launched its 10 Gb/s multipoint microwave backhaul platform. VectaStar Radio Controller (RC), the latest development of the company's VectaStar microwave backhaul and access solution, is designed to meet the growing capacity requirements of mobile operators around the world. Read more

February 9, 2011 DesignArt Networks has recently unveiled its ground-breaking 40-nm 4G SoC family with the launch of five distinct SoC chips. Today the company released its second open SoC platform – the DAN3400. Read more

February 1, 2011 Toumaz launched the TZ1053 Telran, an ultra-low energy (ULE) radio for wireless sensor networks, remote controls, green energy solutions, smart meters, and environmental monitoring. Built on the company’s proprietary AM Mixed Signal technology, the sub-1 GHz radio SoC offers 1 V operation using a single button cell battery and consumes less than 3mW continuous use power consumption. Read more

January 24, 2011 Premo has released two series of radio transmitters, the broadband WITECH-xxxW25 and the narrowband WITECH-xxxN25 series, designed for remote industrial networks. The modules (868MHz for the EU and 915 MHz for the US) come in a variety of models with different CPU capabilities, and RF hardware interface ranging from micro-strip antenna, ceramics, whip or SMA connector for external antenna. Read more

January 12, 2011 Anaren has added two new members to its fast-growing line of Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules. In order to meet operating demands and compliance requirements specific to the European market, the AIR line now includes ETSI-compliant models A1101R08A (embedded antenna) and A1101R08C (connectorized). Read more

January 6, 2011 The military needs lighter, more efficient energy storage devices for its personnel. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $1.7 million contract to Maxwell Technologies, Inc. for developing an advanced energy storage device for portable radios. Read more

December 15, 2010 For vehicles predominantly made of plastic materials such as campers, caravans or license-free light vehicles, Hirschmann Car Communications has developed a foil antenna that can be integrated into windscreens and even into the body structure. Read more

December 15, 2010 Low Power Radio Solutions (LPRS Ltd) has established itself as a major supplier of transducers used in energy saving lighting systems manufactured by Ex-Or Ltd. Read more

December 8, 2010 The new FPX3-869-20 transceiver is the first in a family of powerful, high data rate transceivers from Radiometrix. The radio module makes use of the pan-European high power 869.4 to 869.65 MHz allocation to offer half-watt RF power output in a small (67- x 30- x 12-mm) footprint. Read more

December 2, 2010 Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has agreed to acquire IMEC spin-off company M4S NV, from Option NV, a supplier of wireless broadband equipment, subsystems and software. Read more

December 1, 2010 PMC-Sierra has announced its SynthePHY™ family of integrated dual channel 6 Gb/s SERDES and programmable clock synthesizer solutions optimized for wireless infrastructure radio designs. Read more

November 26, 2010 Peraso Technologies Inc., a fabless chip company working on millimeter-wave radio transceiver technology, has raised C$8 million (about $7.9 million) in an equity financing round led by Celtic House Venture Partners. Read more

November 17, 2010 Anaren has launched a family of Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules designed for the broad electronics market. Working closely with Texas Instruments as a member of the TI Developer Network, Anaren developed the five-module AIR family to provide a more elegant, FCC Certified, 'plug and play' RF solution to electronic engineers challenged with adding wireless capability to new or existing devices. Read more

November 16, 2010 Continuous Computing has announced the general availability of the Trillium® Monitoring Software product line, a derivative portfolio of software based on the company's widely deployed and industry-proven Trillium telecom protocol software. Read more

November 15, 2010 In order to address wireless design opportunities in the region, UK-based Radiometrix is taking steps to strengthen its position within the emerging Indian market through collaboration with distribution firm, APC Technologies.  Located in Gurgaon, close to New Delhi, APC Technologies specialises in the RF and microwave supply chain activities. Read more

November 10, 2010 Fabless ASIC house eASIC Corp., and Radiocomp Inc., have announced a low-power common public radio interface (CPRI) v4.1 solution for radio equipment controller (REC) equipment. Read more

November 9, 2010 Is Intel Corp. re-entering the DSP business? In a major move, Intel has licensed Ceva Inc.'s digital signal processor (DSP) intellectual property (IP). Read more

November 2, 2010 RF Micro Devices, Inc. has unveiled a new family of integrated configurable components for multiple markets. The RFFC207x and RFFC507x product families perform multiple common RF functions in a reduced footprint while delivering the flexibility necessary to develop radio systems that operate over a wide dynamic range and across a broad range of frequencies and channel bandwidths. Read more

November 1, 2010 Icera and Teleca have announced that Teleca has been selected to help develop an Android radio interface layer for Icera's Espresso® 4xx smartphone platform family based on its Livanto® ICE806x baseband chips. Read more

October 27, 2010 For users who require not only the usual mobile radio services but satellite communications as well, Hirschmann car communications has developed an antenna that combines Iridium satellite connectivity with normal GSM radio reception and transmission. On top of this, the company has integrated an antenna for GPS satellite navigation. Read more

October 22, 2010 CML Microcircuits has announced the long-anticipated upgrade of its highly integrated solution for transmitter linearisation, the CMX998. Possibly the best cartesian feedback loop IC available, the CMX998 is even more flexible boasting an impressive RF operating range of 30 MHz to 1 GHz, making it ideal for portable devices. The device also offers low wide-band noise and a high degree of linearisation gain. Read more

October 20, 2010 DesignArt Networks has announced that its latest and disruptive DAN3000 4G SoC family employs multiple customized processor cores from Tensilica®. The result is the first fully integrated 40 nm multi-layer, multi-core SoC platform, delivering more than 1 Gbps in mobile broadband data throughput, ready for LTE Advanced applications. Read more

October 19, 2010 PicoChip has announced that it is the first company to support the newly announced Femto Forum LTE application programming interfaces (APIs). The new APIs help developers of LTE femtocells integrate subsystems from different suppliers reducing integration cost and time, and accelerating development of femtocells and other 'small cell' basestations which are critically important for LTE network deployment. Read more

October 14, 2010 Telit Wireless Solutions is launching a module featuring wireless M-Bus transfer technology, designated E50-868, which supports uni- and bi-directional RF connections at 868 MHz between meters for gas, water, heating or electricity and concentrators. This exchange of data forms the basis for the use of smart meters. They increase the accuracy and transparency of bills, offer better customer service and help improve energy efficiency. Read more

October 13, 2010 Linear Technology has introduced the LTM9004 and LTM9005, two breakthrough RF-to-digital uModule® receivers that integrate the key components for 3G and 4G base station receivers (WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, LTE, etc.) and smart antenna WiMAX base stations. Read more

October 8, 2010 Advantech has unveiled three IEEE 802.11a/b/g single to triple radio access points (APs), designated EKI-6321AG, EKI-6322AG and EKI-6323AG, for industrial wireless outdoor applications. These outdoor AP/bridges/clients incorporate daisy-chain mesh and ultra fast roaming technology to enhance long range wireless coverage and mobility connectivity. Read more

October 7, 2010 RF Micro Devices (RFMD) has added the RFUV5945A I/Q up-converter to its rapidly growing portfolio of components for microwave and millimeter wave radio applications. It is ideally suited for a variety of end markets, including point-to-point microwave radio, military radio, VSAT, and test and measurement. Read more

October 7, 2010 M/A-COM Technology Solutions has introduced a 38 GHz surface mount technology (SMT) packaged GaAs MMIC chipset solution for the point-to-point (PtP) radio market. This 38 GHz chipset includes an integrated up converter and receiver, driver and power amplifiers, a VCO and a multiplier. Read more

September 29, 2010 Mobile operator capital expenditure on key network items is expected grow a marginal 3 percent in 2010. Contributions to this 2010 growth are coming mainly from equipment spending on Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment but also Core Network (CN). RAN CAPEX should grow 3.5 percent while CN spending is expected to grow 8 percent. Read more

September 29, 2010 In his new book 'DAB Digital Radio: Licensed To Fail' published by Radio Books in the UK and US, radio specialist Grant Goddard predicts the failure of DAB digital radio. The author uncovers a secret deal struck between the government and the UK commercial radio industry to force DAB radio upon the British public. In return for the radio industry promising to press ahead with DAB, the government bowed to pressure from the largest commercial group to amend the law so that its most profitable national FM radio licence could be renewed without a public auction. Read more

September 22, 2010 Ubiquisys has completed the second close of the funding round first announced in July, with a $5 million investment led by three Taiwanese companies: SerComm Corporation, UMC Capital Corporation and Pacific Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Advent Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Atlas Venture. Building on the company's flagship deployment with SoftBank Mobile in Japan, the capital will be used to accelerate its momentum worldwide, particularly in the Americas. Read more

September 16, 2010 Claiming to be the first to offer a one-box solution that meets the testing needs of 802.11p devices, LitePoint has developed an adhoc operating mode for testing of 802.11p devices in its WiFi platform with LitePoint IQview/IQflex test systems, and in its multi-radio test platform, with LitePoint IQ2010 test systems. Read more

September 14, 2010 The LTE software for Software Defined Radio (SDR) company, mimoOn GmbH has won a further licensing deal for mi!MobilePHY™ Physical Layer (PHY) software from a leading chip vendor. The agreement means that mimoOn now supplies the majority of SDR chip vendors in the mobile terminals business. Read more

September 7, 2010 PicoChip has launched the PC7300, a complete femtocell hardware reference design that claims the industry's lowest system costs and power consumption with fast time to market. Based on the field-proven PC3xx picoXcell family of femtocell devices, the reference design cuts bill of materials (BoM) costs to under $50 and requires less than 5 W total power, which the company claims is the only femtocell solution on the market today capable of being integrated into gateway devices. Read more

September 1, 2010 Atmel Corporation has developed an active antenna integrated circuit (IC) for FM car antennas, car radios and navigation applications of which the vendor claims it is the industry's smallest car radio antenna – and it has the best noise performance. Read more

August 31, 2010 London-based wireless specialist Radiometrix has announced the release of the KDEC code-hopping receiver. Read more

August 27, 2010 CML Microcircuit has added a new Audio Scrambler and Sub-audio Signalling Processor to the company's family of analog two-way radio ICs.        Read more

August 13, 2010 Antenova Ltd has announced the addition of the M10385 dual-mode receive/transmit internal surface mount FM Antenna Module for a broad range of mobile and digital media device applications. Read more

August 13, 2010 By 2015, the worldwide installed base of digital radio receivers, excluding handsets, is expected to reach nearly 200 million units according to ABI Research's recent “Digital Radio” study. The digital radio market has just began to see consumer adoption in the US and Western Europe. By the end of 2010, about four million digital radios using iBiquity's proprietary HD Radio technology will have shipped in the US. In Europe (led by Britain) governments have chosen the DAB standard and consumers have purchased nearly 13.5 million radio receivers. Read more

August 3, 2010 IZT has introduced the S1000, a signal generator platform which combines the functions of multiple conventional RF generators into one compact, flexible RF test source with support of most radio broadcast standards – FM-RDS, DVB-T, HD radio, DAB, DAB+, DMB-Audio, Sirius and XM. Read more

July 29, 2010 Analog Devices Inc. has collaborated with Xilinx Inc to introduce a radio architecture development platform that helps multi-carrier cellular base station manufacturers reduce engineering resources and improve time to market. Read more

July 28, 2010 CML Microcircuits has announced the release of a new Function Image for the CMX7131 and CMX7141 ICs supporting the development of NXDN compatible digital voice radio equipment. Read more

July 20, 2010 STMicroelectronics' HD radio chipset has been certified by HD Radio 'inventor' iBiquity digital Corp. for meeting comprehensive performance requirements. The move could translate into more momentum for the HD Radio technology for automotive infotainment. Read more

July 13, 2010 They go by many marketing names: Single RAN, Uni-BTS, Multi-RAN, Multi-standard Radio. But they all mean essentially the same thing: relatively simple upgrades that allow a single standard base station to support multiple technologies. The next few years will see a rapidly growing – although possibly short-lived – wave of such upgrades throughout both mature and developing markets. Read more

July 12, 2010 IPWireless and Altair Semiconductor have announced a partnership to develop a suite of multi-band LTE modem products that will support key frequency bands ideally suited to global LTE deployments. Read more

July 6, 2010 This Tinytag wireless data logging system, distributed by PSE - Priggen Special Electronic, consists of a receiver which is connected to a PC and a number of radio loggers. Each radio logger is a self-contained, battery powered unit that can receive, log, store and transmit data to other radio loggers, as well as the central receiver. Read more

June 30, 2010 Anritsu Company has introduced hardware and software for its MT8820C that extends the capability of the tester to support measurement of parametric data during an LTE test mode call. Read more

June 29, 2010 Lattice Semiconductor has partnered with Affarii Technologies to successfully demonstrate what it claims to be the industry's lowest cost, low power Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution at 1300 mW per antenna. Read more

June 24, 2010 The Femto Forum has announced its second plugfest interoperability testing event which will focus on the Broadband Forum's femtocell management standard. The event, which is to be held before the end of 2010, will be overseen by testing and compliance consultancy TRaC Telecoms & Radio and is part of an ongoing programme aimed at ensuring the femtocell industry is built on fully open and effective standards. Read more

June 17, 2010 Aeroflex has launched a new option for the 7100 LTE Digital Radio Test Set that supports CDMA-based data standards such as Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) and evolved High Rate Packet Data (eHRPD) as well as LTE-eHRPD hand-over. Read more

June 9, 2010 Imec has introduced a cognitive baseband radio (COBRA) architecture targeting 4G requirements at up to 1 Gbit/s throughput and multiple asynchronous concurrent streams (for instance simultaneous digital broadcasting reception and high-speed internet access). Read more

June 8, 2010 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has extended its Open Innovation Platform(™) with another focus on system-level design, analog/mixed-signal (AMS)/RF design and two-dimensional/three-dimensional integrated circuit (2-D/3-D IC) implementation. Read more

May 25, 2010 Avago Technologies has announced early prototypes have been manufactured of the company's proprietary five-chip family that targets the expanding 38 GHz and 42 GHz cellular radio infrastructure and backhaul point-to-point radio markets. Read more

May 20, 2010 FreeWave Technologies manufacturer of high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, have announced several updates to its Tool Suite platform management system. Read more

May 13, 2010 2001 Electronic Components Wireless Division has released another first, with the Z-485 radio bridge module for RS-485, specifically designed to provide a plug-and-play alternative to traditional cabling where routing is difficult. Read more

May 11, 2010 Shortlink's radio module realizes complete custom solution without customer in-house RF or electronics expertise and offers quick time to market Read more

May 11, 2010 Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a supplier of high-performance RF CMOS ICs, has signed an exclusive joint development agreement with IBM for the development and manufacture of future generations of Peregrine's patented UltraCMOS silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process technology, which claims to be the industry's highest-performance radio frequency complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (RF CMOS) process. Read more

May 10, 2010 Radiometrix has unveiled its SHX1 narrowband transceiver. Powered by a +5 V regulated supply, this compact multi-channel operation VHF device has an output power of 500 mW, allowing it to cover a range of over 5 km. Read more

April 28, 2010 AvaLAN Wireless Systems announces a new way to achieve robust and reliable data communication in the 2.4 GHz frequency band, the most globally accepted unlicensed portion of the spectrum. AvaLAN's unique, secure, robust 2.4 GHz solution offers 38 non-overlapping independent operating channels. Read more

April 14, 2010 The TXL2 transmitter and RXL2 receiver modules, from London-based wireless solutions developer Radiometrix, are half duplex multi-channel OEM radio modems offered in the company's popular SIL standard footprint. Read more

April 13, 2010 Frontier Silicon is to demonstrate its Verona tuner module at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair, making it possible for radio receiver manufacturers to break the twenty Euro price barrier for low cost, low power WorldDMB Profile 1 radios, driving the migration from analogue to digital radio around the world. Read more

March 8, 2010 Rohde & Schwarz is enhancing its CONTEST test software by adding end-to-end tests on mobile phones under real-world receive conditions. Read more