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Extending its portfolio of high performance radio frequency (RF) solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a high-linearity, ultra-low noise quadrature (IQ) modulator that delivers RF output transmission up to 4-GHz, allowing service providers to easily support multiple wireless communications standards on a single RF transceiver card. TI's TRF370317 IQ modulator is a direct launch RF transmitter device that offers base station equipment manufacturers improved linearity and higher output power, which can improve overall transmitter performance, while reducing power consumption and operating expenditures for service providers.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced the industry's highest integrated 2.4-GHz radio frequency (RF) front end for low-power and low-voltage wireless applications. The CC2591 increases the range (link budget) in wireless systems by integrating a power amplifier for increased output power of 22 dBm and a low-noise amplifier for improved receiver sensitivity of 6 dB.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated announced that TI has joined the newly formed RF4CE (Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics) Consortium. This consortium is designed to create a new protocol that will enable development of radio frequency remote controls which replace IR remote controls, deliver richer communications, increase reliability and improve flexibility. As a key contributor to this technology, TI will provide both hardware and software solutions for the new RF4CE protocol.

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Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a breakthrough generation of ultra-low power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCU), offering the industry's lowest power consumption for devices that can provide up to 25 MHz peak performance, increased Flash and RAM memory and integrated peripherals such as radio frequency (RF), USB, encryption and LCD interfaces. With as low as 160 uA/MHz (microamp per megahertz) active power consumption and 1.5 uA in standby, MSP430F5xx MCUs enable longer battery life and the ability to use smaller batteries for portable applications, or no batteries at all for energy harvesting systems that run off of solar power, vibration energy or human body temperature.

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Continuing to push the boundaries of high-power radio frequency (RF) technology, Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled the world's first 50-volt LDMOS RF power transistor line-up for L-Band radar applications. The line-up is ideal for a wide range of high-power RF applications including air traffic management and long range weather radar.

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Atmel Corporation , announced the availability of the new fully integrated fractional-N PLL RF transmitter IC ATA5749 for car access and TPMS applications. The new device is one of the very few automotive RF transmitter ICs that is fully programmable, thus enabling flexible system design and adaptation. Moreover, it is one of only a few such devices with ultra low power consumption – a significant factor for TPMS applications.

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A new monolithic broadband, high performance logarithmic RF power detector from Linear Technology provides accurate RF power measurement over a wide frequency range covering the 800-900MHz and the 1.7GHz to 2.2GHz cellular bands, as well as the 2.6GHz and 3.5GHz WiMAX bands. The LT5538 RF power detector provides a DC output voltage that is log-linearly proportional to its input power level.

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LEUVEN, BELGIUM AND TOKYO, JAPAN April 21, 2008 Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile, automotive and PC/AV (Audio Visual) markets, has entered into a strategic research collaboration with IMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, to perform research on 45nm RF transceivers targeting Gbit/s cognitive radios. To this end, Renesas has joined IMEC's software-defined radio (SDR) front-end program. This research program includes reconfigurable RF solutions, high-speed/low-power analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and new approaches to digitize future RF architectures.

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Both 3.5GHz and 2.5GHz now supported

Barcelona, Spain and Langen, Germany, February 11, 2008 - Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe's (FME) Mobile WiMAX customers now have the option to address the 3.5GHz-licensed band, in addition to the 2.5GHz band, with Infineon's new WiMAX RF Transceiver SMART WiMAX. This means that the vast majority of all licensed bands worldwide can be supported with one highly integrated and flexible front-end.

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Supports MIMO technology enabling high-speed, reliable communication-

Tokyo, February 7, 2008 - Fujitsu Limited today announced the launch of the world's smallest radio frequency (RF) module for mobile devices, which supports all of the RF circuitry necessary for Mobile WiMAX(1), the highly anticipated next-generation broadband wireless technology. The new RF module, MB86K71, co-developed with Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, was designed using 90-nanometer CMOS process technology. Sample shipment is scheduled to start at the end of February 2008.

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