EDGE Handsets: Baseband Processing Methodologies
By Alan Varghese
The EDGE specification has gained wide acceptance as a technology for voice/data convergence. Its now up to wireless handset designers to re-engineer their products to support this capability.
ADSL Front Ends: Jumping Analog Hurdles
By Cormac Conroy, Samuel Sheng, Sang-Soo Lee, and John DeCelles
The promise of broadband access to the home still has many obstacles to overcome. To avoid clogging up the broadband space with noise and linearity issues, the analog front end of broadband networking equipment is of key concern for designers.
Getting to OC-192 with Net Processing
By Charles Wiebe
Todays carrier-class IP networks in and above the OC-192 range require more than traditional processing. Therefore, designers need to move away from traditional network processing techniques to nonprocedural processing solutions to reach 10-Gbps operation and beyond.
Ensuring Loop Stability in VCO Tuning
By Brendan Daly
Instability is a very real problem for VCO-controlled communication products. It is important to understand the causes of and the various techniques to counteract this instability.
Emerging Technology Series #3: Turbo Decoding in Comm Apps
By Robert Cottrell, Martin Langhammer, and Volker Mauer
Turbo decoding is a powerful tool for solving the many error correction headaches that communication systems designers face with next-generation systems.