Communications

Avago Technologies has a 25Gbit/s serialiser/deserialiser (serdes) core in 28nm process technology has demonstrated compliance with the Common Electrical Interface (CEI) standard for 25G Long Reach (LR). Achieving CEI-25G-LR compliance it is intended for Asic design in data networking applications and supports the push for 100G Ethernet infrastructure. Avago demonstrated its 25G SerDes cores in backplane applications at the DesignCon 2012 ...

CEVA has announced the availability of a silicon-based, software development kit (SDK) for runtime software development based on the CEVA-XC323 DSP architecture. The CEVA-XC323 silicon embedded in the SDK was designed by CEVA and manufactured on a 65nm process, delivering up to 800MHz performance. The expectation is that this level of performance will support the design of software-based modems and associated application software, running ...

CommScope claims to have an antenna which can be used by operators to add spectrum and bandwidth to mobile networks. The family of ultra-wideband basestation antennas are designed to address the needs of operators for bandwidth growth and additional radio spectrum availability in the future. “This familiy of ultra-wideband antennas will be very beneficial for the forward-looking operator who may need to deploy additional ...

Cambridge Consultants has developed a reference design for radio microphones using the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) platform. Accoding to the Cambridge-based design house the radio microphone design “quadruples the range of existing radio microphone technology, whilst also lowering the total bill of materials costs to under $12 for each microphone”. The new microphone design deploys Cambridge Consultants’ DECT-based Salix audio distribution platform, delivering ...

Broadband wholesaler LightSquared is objecting to a government report stating that its modified L-band network is not compatible with “several GPS-dependent safety-of-flight” systems. The report, issued 13 January by the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) executive committee (EXCOM), stated that there are “no practical solutions” for rolling out the LightSquared network, even in the downgraded version proposed in June ...

INSIDE Secure, the secure chip specialist, says its near field communication (NFC) devices can be used to interact with the Kovio RF Barcode wireless tags based on printed silicon technology. By combining proprietary high-performance silicon inks with high throughput and low-cost graphics printing technologies, Kovio RF Barcode tags can be easily printed on flexible substrates at low cost making them practical to be used in mass-market consumer products. “The ...

David Cameron visited the 20 year-old Low Power Radio Solutions of Witney which makes its ‘easy-Radio’ low power radio modules for the licence-free bands. The picture shows the PM with Sandie Sharples who is the customer service director of LRPS and md John Sharples. “We have traditionally manufactured in the UK as our products are complex and high quality,” says John ...

In what may be the death knell for nascent L-band broadband provider LightSquared, nine federal agencies that have analysed the potential interference to GPS receivers from network over the past year agree that the system can not coexist with GPS operations. “Based on testing and analysis, there appear to be no practical solutions or mitigations that would permit the LightSquared ...

UK educational satellite FUNcube-1 will be launched by in the third quarter this year. The spacecraft, which has been created volunteer radio amateur organisation AMSAT-UK, will join a number of other spacecraft on a DNEPR rocket sometime in the third quarter of 2012 “Our target audience is students at both primary and secondary levels, and a simple cheap USB dongle ...

Treehouse Labs will reveal an asset tracking and control system operating through phones and web-enabled devices using IEEE802.15.4 low-power radio at CES next week. The system is branded ‘BiKN’, and the platform includes customisable apps, web interfaces, gateways, routers, and end-to-end management and security, “allowing customers to build low-power wireless sensor networks that connect and control smart objects from a ...