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World’s First VDES Base Station Installed

IMT VDES Base Station VDES1000 G.1139-2 Protocol Stack False Bay South Africa The institute of Maritime Technology (IMT) in South Africa has installed the world’s first commercial VDES base station. This will provide services to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) broader maritime community and industry interested in using VDES new data applications. The […] Read More

APCO P25 Phase 2 – RF ICs

APCO P25 is the public safety radio standard used across the USA and also deployed in a number of other countries around the world. P25 Phase 2 has a Common Air Interface (CAI) using two-slot Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), 12.5kHz RF channels and H-CPM / H-DQPSK modulation. CML’s RF receiver and transmitter solutions have […] Read More

Canadian Coast Guard VDES Trials

The VDES1000 evaluation platform was mounted in a 1U 19 “rack below the CNS base station. On the vessel a similar 1U 19“rack containing the VDES1000 module. VDES System VHF Antenna and GPS installed on the Ferry in Des Groseilliers. Track showing movement of CCG Ice Breaker drawn using data collected during the trial, showing […] Read More

Come and see us at Embedded World 2019!

CML Microcircuits is excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at this year’s Embedded World trade fair in Nuremburg, Germany, from 26th-28th February 2019. Embedded World is one of the most important exhibitions in the embedded electronics industry, welcoming over 32,000 attendees last year. CML would like to invite you to come and meet Martin […] Read More

NXDN™ Full Rate Support Released

NXDN™ Full Rate Support CML Microcircuits has released a number of updates to its CMX7131/CMX7141 NXDN™ Function Image™ to support NXDN™ Full Rate operation. NXDN™ is an FDMA digital Land Mobile Radio (LMR) open standard and has evolved to become a key narrowband technology in the LMR migration from analogue to digital. The CMX7131/CMX7141 with its updated NXDN™ Function […] Read More

First VDES Base Station Installed

The Institute for Maritime Technology (IMT), a division of Armscor SOC Ltd., continued South Africa’s strong maritime legacy by installing and operating the first VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) base station in the world. This effort forms part of the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) technology work, supporting the South African Navy. IMT established the VDES […] Read More

Looking back on Electronica 2018

“Connecting everything – smart, safe and secure” CML Microcircuits is pleased to announce another successful year at the 2018 Electronica exhibition. CML participated as a Co-Exhibitor with our German Distributor, SE Spezial Electronic AG, ensuring that we were listed in the Official Show Guide. The SE Stand was set up as a meeting place with […] Read More

Now the world works in HD, it’s time for the voice codec to catch up

Not too long ago, popular fiction still treated the voice interface as something that belonged in the future, but it is now a reality. When we use the phone to talk to a service provider, often we are talking to technology first and a person second. Just as significantly, emergency services and security systems now […] Read More

Direct Conversion: After nearly 200 years of radio, we’re still finding ways to improve it

While the Internet of Things is a worldwide wonder that promises to connect everything, it’s probably worth remembering that the study of electromagnetism started nearly 200 years ago and was, in a very real way, the birth of radio. It’s also fair to say that the first widespread use of wireless technology was for data, […] Read More

CML’s VDES1000: A flexible platform supporting VDES Solution Development

Introduced in 2002, the maritime Automatic Identification System, (AIS), has been so successful that its use has expanded well beyond its original scope, leading to more and more traffic using the system. The consequent heavy loading of the VHF Data Link (VDL) has become a matter of significant concern for both the International Maritime Organisation, […] Read More