imported_Jack Cook

...ALL ON A SINGLE, SMALLER,OW POWERCHIP

Peter Judge posted a story about Broadcom integrating Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an FM radio on a single 65nm CMOS chip. The device should cuts costs and will certainly speed upconverged phone services.

Not being the first to integrateWi-Fi and Bluetooth on a chip, Broadcom'ssmaller lower-power technology will make this an appealing entry.

Peter said:

... multiple radios in one chip can be tricky because of self-interference - at least between Wi-Fi b/g and Bluetooth in the 2.4GHz range. Broadcom believes it has cracked this with its InConcert algorithms that run the two in tandem, either with separate antennas, or sharing an antenna to save space.

Check out Peter's entire article here at ARNnet

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Pocketbrain

I wonder what will be their method of multiplexing the Bluetooth and WiFi signals in the single-antenna application. Time-division seems likely, but your BT and WiFi won't be coordinated. Aw dang it, somebody hand me my old "Signals and Systems" textbook.

Admin

HAHA.... I am working with a Fiber Mux right now at work. This thing is awesome, it is going to save hundreds and thousands of dollars!