Electronics manufacturers and wireless phone companies have been resisting any government mandate to include FM receiver chips in cellular telephones. There are, however, some phones available which ...

Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components and a wire long enough for the bands that the radio will receive.

Put FM radio in cellphones and everyone will benefit. That’s the gist of a report commissioned by an NAB technology advocacy program. “Cell phone service providers, radio broadcasters and handset ...

Jeff Keith is senior product design engineer for Wheatstone Corp. This is one in a series of Q&As with industry professionals about their presentations at the upcoming NAB Show in Las Vegas. Radio ...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has brought a previously hidden iPhone feature to light. Almost all smartphones have an FM receiver chip built into their hardware. It's actually the ...

Some models of Blackberry smartphones already have FM radio receivers built in – but they haven’t been activated. Until now. Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) announced at the Consumer ...

The VHF super regenerative receiver has been trimmed down to a single transistor without compromising its tremendous sensitivity and selectivity while maintaining the same clear audio. The original ...

Silicon Laboratories Inc. has announced the extension of its broadcast audio product portfolio to include the Si473x AM/FM receiver family. The Si473x enables an AM/FM receiver to be easily added to ...

Testing FM receivers is not that much different than testing other pieces of audio equipment. Appropriate tests include the big six: level, frequency response, THD+N, phase, interchannel crosstalk, ...

Frequency modulation (FM) radio is still one of the most commonly used components of entertainment systems in today’s automobiles and plays an important role in overall automotive consumer ratings and ...

XM Satellite Radio Inc. has developed technology that lets radio makers sell AM/FM home units that double as satellite receivers. And it is working to adapt the system to vehicle radios. The ...