The $475m acquisition will enable the company to expand its digital signal processors (DSPs) and analogue chip operations, giving TI the facility to cater for all third-generation (3G) wireless standards.
In addition to their economy, embedded systems have some advantages over server-based systems, such as responding to, and compensating for, the noise level in the user's environment. Psychologists have found that the strongest signals come from...
Airwave works on the Tetra radio protocol (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) which transmits signals on the 17.6Hz frequency. The Airwave handsets are supplied by Motorola on a service managed by telco 02. But a spokeswoman for Motorola defended the...
Telephone and cables were designed to carry far higher frequencies than 50Hz power cables and in every aspect offer superior performance for all data applications. Power cables employ low-grade plastic that is unfriendly to high-frequency signals...
Wal-Mart plans to spend $3bn over the next few years on a new inventory tracking technology that uses radio frequency signals to keep tabs on merchandise, sources familiar with the project said. Wal-Mart expects a big payoff from the technology...
However, every time I look at the spectrum using an analyser and antenna I find a desert, just a few signals and a lot of random noise. This is the world I grew up in as a young engineer, where interference, multi-path, scatter and signal-to-noise...