STMicroelectronics introduced a new design to connect an antenna to a Bluetooth transceiver using a single chip. Two new integrated balun devices can be used to convert the antenna signal to a balanced pair of signals as required by the Bluetooth transceiver. The company said the new devices occupy up to 70% less printed-circuit-board area, simplify design and assembly, and ensure better balanced signal channels with low losses, thereby improving wireless performance.
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STMicroelectronics Shrinks Next-Gen Bluetooth
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You just read about Bluetooth. Here is what it replaced:
IrDA (infrared) served 1993–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
IrDA (infrared) short-range, line-of-sight data links using modulated infrared LEDs between devices (up to 4 Mbit/s), needing direct aim and close proximity. Its job passed to Bluetooth — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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