EDN

Audio modulator design cuts size, cost of pro speakers

A sound amplification technique from SLS Loudspeakers (Springfield, MO) promises to reduce the size and cost of high-power, professional quality speakers. The approach, dubbed Evenstar, uses a pair of ...
EDN

Tutorial on Designing Delta-Sigma Modulators: Part 1

The transition from second-generation (2G) to third-generation (3G) wireless cellular systems requires multi-standard adaptability in a wireless receiver. An important answer to this request is the ...
Nasdaq

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Demonstrate 400G/lane Modulators Built on Silicon Photonic Wafers for Data Centers and AI Optical Connectivity

Innovation paves the way for a high-volume, silicon photonics 400G/lane platform to meet next-generation 3.2T optical communication architectures for datacom and AI applications. The integrated ...
Nasdaq

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Achieve Breakthrough in 400G/Lane Silicon Photonics Platform for Next-Generation Optical Communications

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor have announced a successful demonstration of a 400G/lane modulator on Tower's silicon photonics platform, PH18DA, which achieves over a 3.5dB extinction ratio using ...
Electronic Design

Standard CMOS Yields Integrated Photonic 100-Gb/s Optical Modulator

Due to materials realities and device physics, it’s challenging to develop high-performance optical transceiver functions on standard CMOS processes, but the potential benefits of such photonic ...
Electronic Design

RF Quadrature Modulator Operates From 100 MHz To 1 GHz

CML Microcircuits unveiled a new I/Q modulator in its family of RF integrated circuits. The CMX993 is a highly integrated, general-purpose RF quadrature modulator that operates between 100 MHz to 1 ...