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Low-Power Wireless at ISSCC 2014
February 11, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—Low-power wireless for short-range communications is becoming widely in demand for such devices as personal area networks, ID cards, and medical applications. The newest radios are operating in a wide range of frequencies and bandwidths to address many diverse applications. for wireless, low power is the key factor. Wee Liang…
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RF Techniques at ISSCC 2014
February 10, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—This session focused on RF building blocks that can minimize or eliminate external component in radio systems in wireless systems. The first half of the session looked at the transmission side, mainly for cell phones, and the remainder offered receivers. One interesting paper from David Murphy at Broadcom is a…
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First time in Musicans Heaven by Rob O’Reilly
As I approached the Anaheim Coliseum the signs and banners for the conference were everywhere. I begin to get excited. As a musician, I knew I was about to enter musician’s heaven. First stop, the press booth to pick up my credentials. The check-in process was quick and painless, but as I witnessed the next…
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New Electronics Lead Performance – NAMM 2011
January 15, 2011, Anaheim, CA – At the NAMM show the instruments and hardware lead the way for new performance equipment. One of the areas of innovation was in microphones. A major announcement for studio microphones was from Telefunken. They were able to recreate and manufacture the stainless steel dual vacuum VF-14k that is the…
