NTL tests wireless broadband conceptRichard WilsonNTL is testing the concept of wireless broadband to the home in a trial of 1,000 households in London.The system operates in the licensed 10GHz frequency band and transmits data point-to-point using transmitters and modems designed by UK firm Ogier Electronics of St Albans. But a spokesman for the cable operator said this was purely ...

Ericsson licenses 3G IP to rival OEMs Richard WilsonEricsson has decided to start licensing more of its technology for enhanced GSM GPRS, EDGE and 3rd generation (3G) mobile systems to other manufacturers.The mobile phone firm, which is restructuring its business in the face of difficult market conditions, is creating a separate company which will be responsible for licensing more of ...

Super handset battery from nanotubes Richard WilsonNEC has announced the development of a fuel cell for mobile terminals using the new carbon technology raw material – carbon nanotubes – as electrodes.The fuel cell has about 10 times the energy capacity compared with a lithium battery, and if used for personal computers, in the future, a continued usage time of several ...

Siroyan completes first soft core designRichard WilsonSiroyan has completed the design and tape-out of its first derivative – a test chip device.Code-named Spey, the chip is a hardware implementation of the Reading-based firm’s Rubicon synthesizable software processor which is based on its VLIW processor intellectual property (IP).“Tape-out has become an important signpost in the life of a start-up, and many ...

Analysis: Do start-ups offer hope?Richard WilsonIs it fanciful to believe that far from being in a state of collapse, large chunks of the UK’s electronics industry are as strong now as they have ever been?The substantial number of start-up firms is evidence of that. At a time when US-based venture capital firms have stopped investing UK investors are still looking ...

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News from E-InSite

Development kit for C51 flash MCUs at $290 Richard WilsonAtmel’s wireless and microcontrollers division is offering a development kit for its T89C51Rx2 family of flash microcontrollers.The kit called Flash Emulator contains a real-time In-circuit Emulator (ICE), a development board supporting PDIL 40 and PLCC44 sockets and an In-system Programmer. The In-system Programmer, together with the FLIP software (FLexible In-system Programmer), ...