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european November/December 2011 business press engineeringengineering europeeurope Radar MEMS/Nanotechnology Low Power RF www.microwave-eetimes.com The European journal for the microwave and wireless design engineer 2 NEWS Performance vs. price? At last, resistive parts that make a priority of both. World needs over 10 million small cells by 2015 Chicago will need approximately demand for data is often high- 84,500 small cells to deliver est. Other sites include airports, truly high-speed LTE by 2015, stations, office buildings and with acceptable coverage and outdoor sites providing wider speeds, according to analysis coverage in busy street areas. from Picochip. To provide LTE The report was put together Got a resistive component priority checklist by Picochip’s CTO Dr Pulley, who of your own? Include Anaren on your RFQ everywhere in the US around list, and we’ll show you how we measure up! 1.8 million small cells would be also concluded that worldwide required, based on estimations there would need to be in excess Designed specifi cally for on data growth and usage across of ten million small cells to deliver commercial wireless the country. This is in addition to comparable performance. bands – and priced more residential femtocells and Wi-Fi. The US is already seeing wide- competitively than ever The analysis models what will spread deployment of LTE, with before – Anaren’s new be required to deliver the adver- basestations being deployed now wireless resistive compo- tised data rates consistently to to deliver next generation ser- nents are the answer when users wherever they are. The ca- vices. 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For > 40+ years of RF and microwave engineering million in 2015, the demand for example, Bluetooth radios can experience, as well as decades of experience devices with near field commu- be integrated with NFC radios, in manufacturing ceramic resistive products nications (NFC) grows as well. making the choice to include Want resistive components – and a resistive The latest research from In-Stat NFC easy for OEMs.” technology supplier – that strike the optimal forecasts that adoption of this Today, the focus of the NFC balance between performance and price? technology will push global an- market is shifting from payment Email us at [email protected] or visit nual shipments of NFC chips to applications that can be enabled www.anaren.com over 1.2 billion by 2015. by NFC, to marketing applica- “As the costs of NFC chips de- tions. With this focus shift, we for samples, cline, and NFC radios are com- expect retailers to begin pilot a quote, or bined with other chip functions, programs in the latter part of application the cost to integrate NFC into 2011 and into 2012 that incor- assistance. 800-411-6596 > www.anaren.com handsets will be outweighed by porate smart posters into their In Europe, call 44-2392-232392 the benefits,” says Allen Nogee, signage and outdoor advertising ISO 9001 certified Visa/MasterCard accepted Research Director. “The growth strategies. (except in Europe) of combo chips will also allow NFC radios to piggyback on tech- www.instat.com Microwave Engineering Europe ● November-December 2011 ● www.microwave-eetimes.com Scan mouser.com here to Distributing semiconductors and electronic watch components for design engineers. video Authorised Distributor Distributor for Semiconductors and Electronic Components Purchase all the brands design engineers want and trust. Come to Mouser for what’s next from these industry leaders. Artisan Building Suite C, First Floor Hillbottom Road High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP12 4HJ, United Kingdom +44 (0) 1494-467490 [email protected] mouser.com Mouser and Mouser Electronics are registered trademarks of Mouser Electronics, Inc. Other products, logos, and company names mentioned herein, may be trademarks of their respective owners. Mouser_MWEE-Nov.indd 1 10/17/11 4:16 PM 4 NEWS IN BRIEF Motorola Mobility highlights some NXP claims Google phone challenges in NFC, Wi-Fi, DLNA design win Google’s recently launched Galaxy A handful of standards will drive new smart- Wi-Fi Display, a technique for streaming video Nexus smartphone includes NXP phone uses and interoperability, but some pose from handsets to TVs. Many TV makers are ex- Semiconductors NV’s PN65N integrated challenges. In addition, it could take four to pected to support the wireless link in 2012 sets near field communication (NFC) solution, six months before Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream but “TV manufacturers have a tendency to do according to NXP. Sandwich, becomes widely available in hand- their own thing, so there will be lots of interoper- The PN65N, which features an sets, said a Motorola Mobility executive. ability challenges to make it all work,” she said. NFC radio controller and an embedded Bluetooth low-energy (BLE), near-field com- A related technology, Wi-Fi Direct, is just now secure element, is fully validated on the munications (NFC), Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Dis- being rolled out in handsets as a peer-to-peer latest release of the Android operating play and the DLNA standards hold great poten- method for sharing data and media, she said. system, Android 4.0, also known as Ice tial—and some potential pitfalls--for developers, The interoperability specifications defined by Cream Sandwich, according to NXP. said Ruth Hennigar, vice president of software the Digital Living Network Alliance could be NXP said that the availability of its product management at Motorola Mobility in a baked into as many as a billion systems by 2014. open-source NFC software on Ice Cream keynote at the Android Developer Conference. But the DLNA specs still leave something to be Sandwich enables mobile phone and For example, one of the most interesting desired, Hennigar said. now also tablet manufacturers to design but complicated applications for NFC is mobile “It’s fairly hard to set up and discover devices NFC-enabled, Android-based mobile payments. “The banks, carriers and merchants on DNLA,” she said. “It doesn’t work consistently devices. For application developers, all want to be in control [of mobile payments] across devices, so if someone can crack the code Android support for NXP’s complete and customers are still nervous about using it,” on making DLNA more useable and discoverable, NFC solution provides an opportunity Hennigar said. there should be an app for that,” she quipped. to create new applications for mobile “Right now you can only have one payment For its part, BLE will be supported on next- payment/secure card emulation, model in your phone at one time because of the generation Motorola Razr phones. The technol- tag read/write and peer-to-peer carriers, and merchants don’t want to deploy ogy will open the door to Bluetooth peripherals communication, according to NXP. multiple scanning devices—so it will take a beyond today’s headsets and keyboards, includ- www.nxp.com while to work out who gets the money and ing medical and fitness devices and a wide range how,” she said. of other possible products. Separately, the Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to Sony to buy Ericsson’s ratify by the end of the year the specification for www.motorola.com stake in handset JV Sony said it has signed a deal to acquire Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson’s 50 percent stake in the Android visual radar smartphone app keeps mobile handset joint venture between the two companies, Sony Ericsson, for drivers safe 1.05 billion euro (about $1.49 billion). Sony Ericsson will become a wholly In a recent example of leaving your driving to The iOnRoad app allows drivers to share their owned subsidiary of Sony (Tokyo), the your smartphone, consumer marketer Picitup has driving achievements with others through Face- company said. The deal also includes a launched a visual radar app for high-end Android book and Twitter, such as taking a snapshot of a broad IP cross-licensing agreement and handsets, which when attached to a car’s wind- hazard or reckless driver and automatically post- ownership of key patents, Sony said. shield, warns the driver of potential collisions. ing it to Facebook. According to Sony, the company The iOnRoad app uses the smartphone’s native Further, it also allows users to improve their has about 11 percent market share in camera and sensors to detect vehicles in front of driving skills by viewing their latest drives and Android phones and 80 percent of its the vehicle, alerting drivers when they are in dan- alerts.