Flexibility key to portable wireless design
Wireless connectivity has become a wildly popular feature with end users, resulting in a fast-paced technology push with its attendant proliferation of standards. That is good news for companies wanting to add compelling features to palmtops, laptops, cell phones and a variety of in-home and in-car multimedia products. But the rapid development of features and standards has become a headache for the engineers who have to design whiz-bang wireless features into tiny form factors.