New Wireless Chip
As a self proclaimed techno-geek, I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting technologies, primarily via Slashdot.
This morning, I found an article to a new chip that promises to drastically cut the power requirements of wireless devices such as cellphones and Wi-Fi laptops.
See the article here
April 24th, 2006 at 9:44 am
That’s a nice invention,Nirenjan!
I hope they do not plan to charge very much to license this technology because Cell Phone manufacturers do not care about battery life. If they did, they would have started using switching power supplies years ago instead of continuing to use linear supplies. By using a switcher instead of a linear supply they could more double the current battery life of a phone. Thats in real life, not just theory.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
@Ganga: You’re the electronics expert here, not me. By the way, did you note the point about only a few transistors being required in the ILFD circuit? That would save a huge amount of real estate on the chip…