RF Design product showcase
Technews Industry Guide - Wireless 2013
Electrical Power & Protection
Industrial Wireless
RF Design supplies a diverse range of products for the wireless applications market, these include:
Axsem’s AX5043 RF transceiver and AX8052F143 RF microcontroller are for use in 70-1050 MHz narrowband communications with low power requirements, as well as the AX5051 transceiver and AX8052F151 RF microcontroller for the 400-470 and 800-940 MHz bands.
Laird Technologies’ BL600 series modules make it easy to add single-mode Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), or Bluetooth Smart, to small, portable, power-conscious devices, including those powered by AAA or coin cell batteries.
Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF51822 is a multi-protocol SoC suited for Bluetooth low energy and 2,4 GHz ultra low-power wireless applications. It is built around a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 CPU with 256 KB Flash and 16 KB RAM, and integrates a rich selection of analogue and digital peripherals.
Signalquest’s SQ-SEN-200 is an omnidirectional tilt and vibration sensor. It acts like a normally closed switch which chatters open and closed as it is tilted or vibrated.
The u-blox LISA-U200 module is a 3.75G solution providing up to six-band HSPA+ and quad-band GSM/EDGE data transmission in a compact form factor.
The LEON-G100 is a complete and cost efficient solution that brings full feature Quad Band GSM/GPRS data and voice transmission technology.
For more information contact Andrew Hutton, RF Design, +27 (0)21 555 8400, [email protected], www.rfdesign.co.za
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