SD card enables low-cost Wi-Fi connectivity in digicams

Eye-Fi offers Share, a Wi-Fi-enabled SD card that makes it easy and affordable to add Wi-Fi connectivity to any digital camera with an SD card slot.

Integrating 3G radio into embedded devices

This article walks through key decisions to help best integrate 3G technology with your existing hardware and software.

Enhancing 3G handheld radios with smart antennas

Smart antennas hold the promise of providing significant performance improvement in 3G handheld radios.

Unclogging the pipeline toward 3G technology

To make GSM apps work seamlessly in the field, an intimate knowledge of 3G technology's four fundamental blocks is required

Cut cost, space in industrial vision systems

Industrial vision systems can provide simplified installation, lower maintenance and reduced total cost of ownership.

Issues involved in designing Ethernet over USB

This paper focuses on the issues on how communication data can be transmitted from host to USB device via USB bus with software drivers to achieve such work.

Designing low leakage current power supplies

Reducing the Y-capacitor's size results to low leakage currents and still meet conducted EMI limits with adequate margin.

Converter clocking tech extends to high speed data clocks (Part II)

The jitter requirements for converter clocks are a nice fit for high speed data clocks of 10GHz and above.

Techniques for evaluating deterministic jitter

This article discusses the effects of power supply noise interference on PLL-based clock generators and describes techniques for evaluating the resulting deterministic jitter.

A summary of PLL and clock system design

An on-chip PLL can eliminate the delay between the external and internal clock caused by on-chip clock driver delay.

High-rate Bluetooth opts for 60GHz

The Bluetooth SIG has dropped plans to use UWB it acquired from the WiMedia Alliance, and is now conducting due diligence on 60GHz technology.

2.5B low-energy Bluetooth ICs to ship in 2014

The first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) products are being prepared for the market, ahead of a specification to be ratified by the Bluetooth SIG.

Bright future awaits LED market

Experts at the LED 2009 Conference in painted a bright picture for LEDs as a growth market, but stressed technical challenges in reliability and efficiency.

Flat-panel market set for 2010 rebound

After a gloomy 2009, the flat-panel display market is expected to recover in 2010 with a 5 percent CAGR and revenues of $93.3 billion.

iSuppli: DRAM rebound will continue to 2010

The DRAM industry in the second and third quarters of 2009 posted the strongest sequential growth in revenue and pricing seen in at least five years.

Powerchip, Taiwan Memory seek gov't funds

Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. and Taiwan Memory Corp. (TMC) are separately seeking state support in an effort to survive, according to Gartner Inc.