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Multimedia Over 3G: Technical Challenges and Choices
By Karl Wale
Wireless Applications are infiltrating everyday life at astouding rates. Comm engineers must now tackle the daunting challenges of developing 3G systems that deliver multimedia functionality.

Critical Considerations for Satellite Mobile Handsets
By Brian Senese
Despite the setbacks experienced in 1999, the satcom industry is still a viable option for providing global mobile phone services. Handset engineers have a whole new slew of issues to tackle including frequency, delay time, and signal strengths.

DSP-Based PHYs Enable Online LAN Diagnosis
By Israel Greiss
Downtime can be costly in a network design. Through algorithm development, system designers can now produce testing utilities that enable online diagnosis capabilities in network switching system architectures.

Design Verification Tools: A Buyer's Guide
By Janine Sullivan
It's a given that as communication systems grow to meet demand, their complexity will grow proportionally. As a result of that increase in complexity, designers must rely more and more on the ability of design verification tools.

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