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1. Power amplifier wars, Gallium Arsenide vs. CMOS
(Blogs/Industry Squibs)

...ewhat playful and exaggerated, but this does not mean that a real fight pitting Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Power Amplifiers (PAs) vs. CMOS based PAs is not shaping up. Take for example the recent column ...

2. VT Silicon, world's first 4G silicon-based power amplifier
(Blogs/Startup Blurbs)

...the block diagram is shown below. Instead of gallium arsenide (GaAs), which is traditionally used for power amplifiers, VT Silicon intends to use Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BICMOS which has a signific...

3. Black Sand Technologies, 3G CMOS based RF power amplifier
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We’ve written about Black Sand Technologies, a semiconductor startup focused on CMOS RF Power Amplifiers out of Austin, TX, on several occasions: We first profiled the company back in 2007, sho

4. LightWaves, the future is not wireless
(Blogs/Startup Blurbs)

...able and wireless technologies. There are a great number of startups specializing in RF technologies, digital amplifiers, and software defined radio. Even wireless power harnessing for low power appli...

5. eetimes.com updates emerging startup list to version 8, plenty of new additions
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...e Thermal Solutions Inc. (Durham, NC): Thermal and Power Management Nujira Ltd. (Cambridge, England): Power Amplifiers Efficiency Percello Ltd. (Ra'anana, Israel): Digital Baseband Solutions Qua...

6. Powervation, the art of digital power control
(Blogs/Startup Blurbs)

...tations of what are typically considered analog problems. Examples include Blacksand Technologies and digital amplifiers, Bitwave Semiconductor and programmable transceivers, and WiSpry’s tunabl...

7. Zilker Labs acquired by Intersil
(Blogs/Startup Blurbs)

...he past five month the company has also acquired D2Audio and Kenet Inc., specializing in intelligent digital amplifiers and FemtoCharge technology, respectively. ...

8. Quantance, efficient radio frequency transmit circuits
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... a few startups targeting wireless devices this year: Black Sand Technologies working on silicon based power amplifiers, WiSpry developing programmable RF products, and finally BitWave Semiconductor...

9. BitWave Semiconductor, programmable transceivers: Softranceiver
(Blogs/Startup Blurbs)

... for semiconductor startups recently, but as always there are exceptions to the rule. One hot area is digital amplifiers. We wrote about digital amplifiers and BlackSand technologies in particular her...

10. Black Sand Technologies, Susanne Paul's Insights
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... insight on Black Sand’s chief technologist Susanne Paul and her thoughts regarding silicon based power amplifiers. If you ever wondered what it takes to be a chief technologist, here are a few...

11. austin emerging 100, quite a few semiconductor startups
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...tartup specializing in ultra efficient power supplies D2Audio  - a startup designing intelligent digital amplifiers for audio components  Intrinsity - a little surprising that Intrinsity ma...

12. WiSpry, integrating MEMS with active silicon
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...ions. Further down the line WiSpry envisions the integration of their technology into transceivers, low-noise amplifiers and power amplifiers. The important part here is for the integration of the MEM...

13. ISSCC 2008, a quick recap - part II
(Blogs/Industry Squibs)

... sense-amp (NSR-SA), which seems to have better mean and sigma variation than conventional differential sense-amplifiers. It requires several ratioed circuits and also incurs a power penalty due to cr...

14. Black Sand Technologies, a small-cap genius bet
(Blogs/Startup Blurbs)

...unded by Austin Ventures. The company mission at this point is to come up with a technique to implement power amplifiers using conventional silicon chip technology, thus making them much easier to int...