Credit: ccarlstead CC-BY 2.0. Playing cards developed their four-suit design in the 1480s in France. By the late 1800s, factories mass-produced standard English playing cards that featured diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades, a design that prevails as of September 2014. Older cards were based on Latin suits of cups, swords, coins and rods.
Definition - What does Spread Spectrum mean? Spread spectrum is a technique used for transmitting radio or telecommunications signals. The term refers to the practice of spreading the transmitted signal to occupy the frequency spectrum available for transmission.
The RF401A is a frequency hopping spread spectrum radio designed for 900 MHz license-free ISM band operation. It has a 910 to 918 MHz operating-frequency range and a configurable transmit power output of 5 to 250 mW. It provides one of three selectable active connections including CS I/O, RS-232, and USB.