Thursday 12 November 2015

Radio Frequency and Wireless Design Importance

RF stands for Radio Frequency and is a well implemented and used subset of engineering that composes of devices that are designed to operate on radio frequency (RF). This technology is implemented in any device that is capable of a sending or receiving radio waves such as mobile phones, and Wi-Fi networks. One of the aspects that is most important and adds significant success towards the popularity of the rf/wireless circuit design is its overall power consumption and compact designs. As devices especially mobile phones have gotten slimmer and smaller as technology has progressed, to prolong the time between battery recharge and the overall use, companies have started to use power conscious ICs for radio frequency, baseband and DSP.

RF and wireless features have become an important and highly sought after aspect of any device in today’s age of connectivity and with the dawn of the Internet of Things and its inevitable mass scale implementation just around the corner has made the requirement of devices being wirelessly connected all the more important. There are some aspects that must be taken into consideration however when developing rf/wireless circuits. First of all the designer should have a good understanding of the requirements and the overall design of the device in which the wireless circuit is to be implemented. Bulky and large circuits had become obsolete even before they became popular since they were never feasible in devices. For example, mobile phones in the past usually were very large and bulky with limited functions and actually had large antennas as part of their designs as opposed to today’s slimmer phones that have larger screen sizes, tons of functions, high connectivity options, and smaller sized radio circuits. A good practice to have useable and high-quality wireless circuits for a device is to have help from professionals who are experts in taking trough designs and bring them up to optimum efficiency.


Rf/wireless circuit designs are useless if they are not cost efficient. No matter how good the initial design and application of a circuit, it is just not bound for success if it is expensive to manufacture as the single circuit is composed of many smaller components. During the planning stages, a balance between the feasibility and the cost required should be worked out and as progress is made, the economic value of developing the circuit should be kept as low as possible. There are many companies in the world that specialize in radio frequency and wireless circuit design processes and are usually experts in different fields such as installations, designing, and maintenance. Technology is evolving at a rapid rate and as mentioned, the new phenomenon that is the Internet of Things will make Rf and Wireless technology essential towards not only mobile devices but towards every electronic device.



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Wednesday 4 November 2015

What Turned the World into a Village through Telecommunication



Telecommunication can be described as the exchange of information between two or more than two entities through technological means. Telecommunication uses channels to send out information as electrical signals either over physical or digital mediums. Physical mediums can be signal cables and digital medium can be electromagnetic waves. Telecom devices usually have a transmitter and a receiver and the most common example of modern telecom devices are the mobile phones that are connected to a vast net of a telecommunications network that is used to share information between people and device.A network is usually a telecommunications network which allows computers and other devices that are connected to it share data between them and those on other networks through data connections.

Telecom and networking product design and development are a service that is offered by many companies that provide engineering services and it is one of the most sought after and important services required to an organization or individuals. There are many challenges associated with telecom products developments and some of the most important things that need to be kept in perspective during development are functional performance, availability and reliability of the telecom product. These products include the likes of Broadband Infrastructure Products, IP Networks, Cable Modems and Set-Top Boxes, DSL Modems and Routers, FO Switches, GSM, GPRS and 3G/4G Wireless Protocols, WLAN and Bluetooth. As technology is movie forward a new type of communications network is slowly but surely taking hold in the world of electronic devices. This new technology is Internet of Things which will allow billions of devices to be always connected. This has given arise to the need for developing devices that have some form of telecommunications and networking infrastructure present within them which will allow them to be connected consistently to a network and work more efficiently. 

Telecom and networking product design and development have similar procedures to other electronic devices. When designing a telecom product it is best to capture the core requirements of what the device has to accomplish when put to work in a telecommunications network. A product that is required to perform telecommunications services while being connected to a network like a router must be capable and reliable and be free of needless complexities that may hinder it to reach its full potential and become a problem for the user. To avoid such problems, proper planning and in-depth refining of the requirements to be fulfilled by the product should be done before the idea has been finalized. The hardware and software used should be as per the requirements. Networking devices require thorough testing for they are needed to establish and maintain constant and clean connections between two devices through a network.
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What Embedded Software Really Is For Electronic Designs And Production



Embedded software is a specially programmed to perform specific tasks and is installed on chips or firmware’s which are found in embedded devices. Embedded software could perform a single basic or complex task, but as technology has evolved today, embedded devices programmed with embedded firmware can perform many complex tasks today. Contrary to popular and uneducated belief, embedded software and firmware development is different from software development. For one thing, unlike a software developer who programming an application, any team or individual working on embedded software and firmware development is required to have in-depth knowledge of hardware it is being developed for embedded software’s are made specifically for devices that are supposed to perform a single or set of task. Embedded software development unlike IT software is not dependent on how many lines of code there are, meaning a complex task might actually have only 20 lines of code as opposed to hundreds of lines for a regular software. One thing that significantly differentiates the two fields is the fact that where software developers work on PC for PC, embedded software developers work on PC for PCB and write all their coded software’s and firmware’s for these BOARDS and micro-controllers.

Electronic product design, development and manufacturing Company has the three steps through which every device no matter how small or how big, how basic or how complex passes through on its way to becoming a useable and marketable product. First the basic concept of a new device is conceived in which it is decided what the purpose and uses will be; this step also includes early concept sketches about the shape and size of the device. Once that is finalized, the next step is development. In the development stages, the concept on paper is converted into a physical device which is thoroughly tested by prototyping and made sure that it performs accordingly to its desired function. After it has passed inspections and testing, the device is deemed appropriate for manufacturing and mass production and finds its way to the consumer.


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