Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Wireless Design Online Newsletter

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:52:01 -0500

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Wireless Design Online Newsletter - http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com
Thursday, January 30, 2003
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FEATURED ARTICLES
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1) Tektronix Delivers Breakthrough Versatility and Value to RF Engineers Pressured to Meet
3G Deadlines
2) Ansoft's Founder, Chairman, and CTO Dr. Zoltan Cendes Elected IEEE Fellow
3) Wavecom's Quadband WISMO Modules Selected By Curitel Communications, Inc.
 
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1) Tektronix Delivers Breakthrough Versatility and Value to RF Engineers Pressured to Meet
3G Deadlines; Simultaneous View of Multiple Domains Just One of Many Features Found On New
Analyzer at Unprecedented Price
 
BEAVERTON, Ore., Jan 27, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE:
TEK), an innovator of test, measurement and monitoring tools for wireless designers and
manufacturers, today announced its new wireless communications analyzers that combine
vector signal analysis and spectrum analysis in one instrument to improve engineers'
view...
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9688/793725
 
2) Ansoft's Founder, Chairman, and CTO Dr. Zoltan Cendes Elected IEEE Fellow
 
PITTSBURGH, Jan 28, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ansoft Corporation (Nasdaq:ANST) today
announced that Dr. Zoltan Cendes, the company's Founder, Chairman, and Chief Technology
Officer, was recently elected an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the application of finite-element modeling to
microwave guides, structures, and circuits....
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9689/793725
 
3) Wavecom's Quadband WISMO Modules Selected By Curitel Communications, Inc.
 
ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France & SEOUL, South Korea, Jan 28, 2003 -- Wavecom SA
(Nasdaq:WVCM)(Euronext Nouveau Marche:7306), the world's number one provider of integrated
wireless modules, today announced the signature of a contract with the Korean handset
vendor Curitel Communications, Inc....
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9690/793725

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FEATURED PRODUCTS
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1) ICS-660 DAC Board
2) Q3-Series HF Coils
3) Power Dividers/Combiners
4) IQ Demodulator
5) High Power Terminations
6) Flexible Microwave Cables
7) POLARIS TOTAL RADIO Transceiver
8) Ruggedized C-Band Frequency Synthesizer 
9) SMARTS II Area Monitors
10) Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillators (OCXO)
 
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1) ICS-660 DAC Board
 
The ICS660 is the newest DAC board in the "Precision in PCI" family of analog I/O
products. Designed for a wide variety of data conversion applications that require a high
dynamic range, including radar, cellular base station and test and measurements, the
ICS-660 digital IF transmit-processing DAC board significantly advances the state of the
art... 
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9691/793725
 
2) Q3-Series HF Coils
 
Features:
- Customizable 
- Mil Quality at a Commercial Price 
- Highest Q for its size without the use of ferrites 
- Seated in epoxy for moisture protection
- More...
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9700/793725
 
3) Power Dividers/Combiners
 
Standard cellular/PCS coaxial dividers/combiners feature low insertion loss, high
isolation, and 10 watt power handling capability, independent of load VSWR, and operate at
800 MHz ? 2700 MHz. Intended for use in base station applications, these units are offered
in 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 16 channel modes and cover the full transmit and receive bands for
AMPS, GSM, or PCS systems....
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9692/793725
 
4) IQ Demodulator
 
Model UPC3205GR is a silicon RFIC IQ demodulator from NEC. Designed for digital
communications applications, the device features an on-chip quadrature phase shifter that
achieves +/-0.5-dB amplitude balance and +/-2-deg. phase balance with an input frequency
of 479.5 MHz....
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9693/793725
 
5) High Power Terminations
 
The NEW HTF-series of high power terminations have been redesigned to extend the frequency
range and offer lower VSWR. These units have 50 ohm impedance and are standard with N male
or N female connectors. Other connectors are available upon request....
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9694/793725
 
6) Flexible Microwave Cables
 
UTiFLEX is a complete line of high performance flexible microwave cables built by
MICRO-COAX. The entire UTiFLEX product line is constructed using a low or ultra density
PTFE dielectric offering excellent loss characteristics, outstanding phase stability, and
unsurpassed flexibility compared to standard flexible cables..
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9695/793725
 
7) POLARIS TOTAL RADIO Transceiver
 
The POLARIS TOTAL RADIO transceiver is a highly integrated, triple-band radio for GSM and
GPRS applications with EDGE receive capabilities. The POLARIS transceiver performs all
major functions of the RF section, including both transmit and receive...
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9696/793725
 
8) Ruggedized C-Band Frequency Synthesizer
 
Elcom MFS compact devices employ a single module design implemented with CMOS, ASICs,
advanced MMICs and a dedicated microprocessor. A C-band synthesizer with 125 KHz or 1 KHz
step, up to 1.2 GHz bandwidth and an integrated PLDRO requires only 8 watts of DC power --
a 65% savings over competing units....
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9697/793725
 
9) SMARTS II Area Monitors
 
SMARTS monitors operate like common household smoke detectors to provide continuous
detection of RF radiation. Using the latest, ultra-wideband sensor technology of the
Nardalert XT Personal Monitors, the SMARTS II covers most of the usable RF spectrum in a
single monitor...
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9698/793725
 
10) Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillators (OCXO)
 
Corning's Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (OCXO) typically consists of a precision
quartz crystal, an oven block, a temperature sensor, a heating element, oven circuitry,
oscillator circuitry and insulating material. The crystal and other temperature sensitive
circuit elements are placed in the oven block...
http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/nl/9699/793725

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