RF & Microwave Industry News

Agilent Ships Latest IC-CAP Platform for DC and RF Device Characterization and Modeling

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...
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Harris Corp. Receives $10 M Order

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...
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AMETEK Acquires Coining Holding Co.

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,...
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Tektronix Meets Design Goals with 8HP SiGe Technology

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...
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Design of a Metamaterial Bandpass Filter Using the ZOR of a Modified Circular Mushroom Structure

In this article, the design of a new bandpass filter, based on a modified circular mushroom metamaterial structure, is proposed. Half circular mushroom cells are used as the zero-order resonators (ZOR), and an intermediate gap is used to capacitively c...
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...
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A HEMT Large-signal Model with Improved Transconductance and Gate Capacitance Peaking Characteristics

In this article, an improved large-signal device model of HEMTs is presented, amenable for use in commercial nonlinear simulators. The proposed model includes independent modeling equations to control the peaking and compression behaviors of the HEMT t...
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...
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Program Milestones and Tests Support Radar and Weapons Systems

April saw a fair number of reports of test successes for major programs for various armed forces across the globe with activity in radar and weapons systems particularly prominent
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...
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