From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750775AbWFEXNR (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:13:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750789AbWFEXNR (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:13:17 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:25009 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750775AbWFEXNQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:13:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 01:12:33 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux UWB and Wireless USB project Message-ID: <20060605231233.GJ3469@elf.ucw.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> UWB is a high-bandwidth, low-power, point-to-point radio > >> technology using a wide spectrum (3.1-10.6HGz). It is > > > >How much power is low power? > > For what I know (and I could be wrong) max is around -40dBm/MHz > in the US. I am no expert in the nitty-gritty radio details, but > I've been told that is 3000 times less emissions than a common > cellphone, around .1 uW? [this is where my knowledge about radio > *really* fades]. Common cellphones are 2W, iirc; (so it would be ~1mW) but I was more interested in system power consumption. WIFI is too power intensive for a cellphone (mostly). Is this designed to go into cellphones? notebooks? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html