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Toshiba Corporation announced the development of a new receiver IC for digital mobile communications systems. The new IC has been developed to assure smaller, more cost-attractive receivers for personal handy phone systems (PHS), a new generation of digital mobile communications systems now under development in Japan. The new receiver IC reduces the area taken up by the circuitry of PHS phones, its high level of integration cutting the number of circuit elements to almost half that found in current state-of-the-art handy phones. This is achieved by utilization of silicon BiCMOS processing of a direct conversion receiver (DCR) chip. The [more ...]