Agilent Technologies' FBAR Duplexer Wins 2000 Technology Award From Wireless Design & Development Magazine.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Wireless/Portable Symposium & Exhibition SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A), a leading provider of innovative technologies for communications and life sciences, today announced that its miniature film bulk acoustic resonator resonator /res·o·na·tor/ (rez´o-na?ter) 1. an instrument used to intensify sounds. 2. an electric circuit in which oscillations of a certain frequency are set up by oscillations of the same frequency in another (FBAR FBAR Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator FBAR Foreign Bank Account Report FBAR First Born Anal Retentive ) duplexer has earned a 2000 Technology Award from Wireless Design & Development Magazine. The magazine's readers, editorial staff, and editorial advisory board selected twenty award winners from a field of more than 1,550 products that appeared in the magazine over a 12-month period. Award winners were honored today at a presentation during the Wireless/Portable Design Symposium, held at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif., Feb. 12 to 16. Agilent's FBAR duplexer, which occupies less than 20 percent of the volume of a conventional ceramic device, is a critical component in many innovative, small form-factor mobile phones and information appliances. Applications include wristwatch-sized CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. phones and phone modules for handheld computers. "Agilent's FBAR-based duplexer exemplifies the attributes of our award winners: it is a unique and technologically innovative product that enables engineers to create groundbreaking wireless products," said Kim Stokes, editor-in-chief of Wireless Design and Development. "The FBAR-based duplexer received tremendous response from our reader surveys and was judged to be one of the best of the best by our editorial board and our advisors." "We are extremely pleased that the FBAR duplexer won a 2000 Technology Award from Wireless Design and Development Magazine," said Bryan Ingram, manager of Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group RF Business Unit. "This award is truly a testament to the engineering efforts that went into creating the advanced miniaturization min·i·a·tur·ize tr.v. min·i·a·tur·ized, min·i·a·tur·iz·ing, min·i·a·tur·iz·es To plan or make on a greatly reduced scale. min technology behind this innovative product." Agilent's FBAR technology is used to produce a miniaturized duplexer that supports the design of very thin form-factor CDMA devices. Duplexers play a critical role in a CDMA handset by separating incoming communications from outgoing communications. Agilent's FBAR duplexers occupy less than 20 percent of the volume of a conventional ceramic duplexer. Devices based on FBAR technology provide better power handling, insertion loss, and selectivity characteristics compared to current surface acoustic wave A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is an acoustic wave traveling along the surface of a material having some elasticity, with an amplitude that typically decays exponentially with the depth of the substrate. (SAW) devices. Agilent's FBAR-based duplexer is part of the Agilent CDMAdvantage chipset, which includes all active functions required for 800 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. and 1900 MHz handsets. The Agilent MGA-72543 bypass-switched LNA LNA Low-Noise Amplifier LNA Locked Nucleic Acid (Link Technologies Ltd.) LNA Linolenic Acid LNA Licensed Nursing Assistant LNA Launch Numerical Aperture LNA Ladies National Association LNA Leading National Advertisers, Inc. and the Agilent QCPM-9801 dual band power module are already shipping in high volume to CDMA handset manufacturers. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a diversified technology company with approximately 47,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries. Agilent is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. In fiscal year 2000, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. |
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