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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced shipment of the latest release of its device modeling software platform, Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program. IC-CAP 2011.04 provides significant improvements in the modeling flow of semiconductor devices by enabling the IC-CAP Wafer Professional automated measurement solution to link with IC-CAP’s CMOS model extraction...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has received a $10 M order to provide RF-310M-HH multiband handheld software-defined radios to a central Asian nation in support of interoperable secure communications with coalition partners. The RF-310M is the first tactical radio certified by the National Security Agency...

AMETEK Inc. announced that it has acquired Coining Holding Co. , a supplier of custom-shaped metal preforms, microstampings and bonding wire solutions for interconnect applications in microelectronics packaging and assembly, for $148 M in cash. Coining, acquired from an investor group led by Chattanooga, TN-based River Associates Investments LLC,...

Rogers Corp. will be well represented at the PCIM Europe 2011 by two of its divisions offering practical power solutions: Rogers BVBA Power Distribution Systems Division and Rogers Thermal Management Solutions Division. Recently acquired Curamik Electronics GmbH will also be in attendance at PCIM. Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM)...

The International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the annual conference and exhibition of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), is now offering a Graduate Student Challenge. This new competition encourages graduate student members attending the conference to form teams, conduct brain storming meetings, develop new ideas and propose practical...

Tektronix Inc. , manufacturer of oscilloscopes, announced that validation of ASICs designed in IBM’s 8HP silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS Specialty Foundry technology are exceeding target specifications for a planned new performance oscilloscope capable of greater than 30 GHz bandwidth across multiple channels while minimizing noise found in older chip...

Wireless communication gadget users nowadays tend to pursue more convenience, such as multi-functions and higher mobility. The former results in a multi-band service oriented device; the latter drives the development of reduced size equipment. Thus, the roles and expectations of RF components are becoming more challenging. In particular, quality...

The availability of general-purpose harmonic-balance and Volterra-Series simulators has generated a need for accurate nonlinear models of III-V field effect transistors (FET). 1 Due to the heterostructure complexity of HEMTs and the associated physical characteristics, they are most appropriately modeled based on a semi-empirical approach with parameters extracted from...

On the radar front, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman completed a significant milestone for the Cobra Judy Replacement program by delivering the CJR S-band active phased-array antenna to the CJR integration site at Kiewit Offshore Services, Corpus Christi, TX. Meanwhile, Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted...