Richard K. Williams is the president, CEO, and CTO of AnalogicTech. He holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MSEE from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. Prior to launching AnalogicTech, he was the senior director of device concept and design at Siliconix. Email address: richardwilliams@analogictech.com Web site: http://analogictech.com
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April 14, 2005[POV: Point Of View] Features Drive Supply Complexity In Handhelds
Today's convergent devices--handhelds and smartphones--are surprisingly complex. They consist of one or more RF power amplifiers (PAs) and receivers, a digital baseband processor and microprocessor host, electronic memory, a high-resolution image sensor, at least one high-quality display, various lighting functions (white backlighting, camera flash, and even color fashion lighting), a lithium-ion battery, and a power-management system with integral battery-charging. In the last year, the...