Cellular telecoms

3G LTE Long term Evolution

With the push to ever faster data rates being required, LTE, the long term evolution for 3G is the next step in cellular development. Using technologies like OFDM and MIMO it provides significant increases over previous generations.

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Technology History

Professor John Ambrose Fleming

Some say he was the inventor of electronics, others say he developed the left hand motor rule, but possibly his major achievement was the invention of the diode valve or tube, that was the start of electronics as distinct from the electrical science of the day.

Cellular telecoms

Mobile Network Optimisation with SON

Christopher Larmour, CMO of Actix looks at self optimising network technology for mobile telecommunications networks, showing how they are essential for today's systems.

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• TUTORIAL: IEE 802.22 WRAN technology
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Test & Measurement

Spectrum analyzers

With many new technologies being incorporated into spectrum analyzers, their capabilities have markedly increased in recent years.

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• TUTORIAL: Automatic Test Equipment ATE
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Design principles

Electrostatic discharge

A comprehensive tutorial on ESD which covers not only how ESD arises and its affects on electronics equipment, but also how to combat it in a variety of ways from using ESD products, setting up ESD protected areas to developing an ESD control process and the guidelines for designing equipment to withstand ESD.

RF topics

MIMO basics

MIMO is now a key technology enabling significant increases in data rates for systems including Wi-Fi, LTE, and many more. Find out how this technology works.