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Communications

5G Trends in 2016: Shifting the Design Workflow Paradigm

Ken Karnofsky, Senior Strategist for Signal Processing Applications at MathWorks, examines 5G trends for 2016.
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Test & Measurement

Solving the Wireless Test Repeatability Puzzle

The octoBox Wireless Testbed from octoScope completely isolates an access point and a client from ambient RF interference.
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Trends & Analysis

25 Quotes from the 2015 Engineering Salary Survey

Engineers have wide-ranging opinions about their profession, so here are a few written responses that did not appear in the final draft of the survey.
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Cellular

LTE: Driving Data Through the Airwaves

Stefano Moioli, Director of Product Management, Cellular, at u-blox, examines emerging business models for LTE-based services and applications
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Test & Measurement

Prototyping Our Way to 5G Reality

We’re seeing 5G technologies move forward to address today’s wireless-communications challenges, and the vision of an Internet for everyone and everything comes more in focus ...
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WiFi

Freescale Delivers 10G Wi-Fi

Freescale’s QorIQ LS1043A residential gateway reference design uses Quantenna Communications’ QSR10G 10G Wave 3 802.11ac Wi-Fi support to deliver 10G wireless communication.
Courtesy of Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images
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Processors

LTE Could Invigorate Sluggish Baseband-Processor Industry

Qualcomm still leads the pack in a cellular-baseband-processor market that saw just a 2.5% y/y climb in Q1 2014.
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Communications

Smartphone Apps Processor Market Jumps 25%

Despite the relatively healthy numbers, Strategy Analytics’ new report still says there’s an overall decline in the market between Q1 2013 and Q1 2014, both in revenues and shipments...
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Communications

Configurable 4G LTE Router Eyes Industrial M2M Comm

Built for industrial applications, the 4G LTE LR77 v2 cellular router from Conel exploits the fast data-transfer speeds (up to 100-Mbit/s download; 50-Mbit/s upload) of the LTE...
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4G/5G/6G

Gallery: The Best Smartphones at CES 2014

A gallery of the latest smartphones introduced at CES 2014 including a phone with a 20 megapixel camera and one that is waterproof.