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Agilent Technologies Inc. expanded the world’s most flexible PNA-X network analyzer with 13.5, 43.5 and 50 GHz models. The 43.5 and 50 GHz models support higher frequency applications such as radar and satellite communications, while the 13.5 GHz model is ideal for lower-frequency devices used in wireless communications. Agilent’s...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a single-unit solution -- the U8903A audio analyzer -- that helps users quantify characteristics that affect sound quality in audio devices. The Agilent U8903A is also the next-generation replacement for the widely used legacy 8903B audio analyzer. The scalable, two-channel U8903A includes versatile measurement functions,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced EMPro 2009, the full 3-D electromagnetic (EM) design and simulation software that represents the next step in integration with Advanced Design System (ADS), the industry’s leading RF and microwave design and simulation platform. EMPro 2009 contains both finite-element-method and finite-difference-time-domain EM simulation techniques. Integrated with...

ATC introduces the new 800R NPO ceramic, high RF power lowest ESR MLC series. It is manufactured in one of ATC's signature case sizes; case R (0.070" x 0.090") with a capacitance range of 1 to 100 pF at 500 W VDC. The 800R series is designed to provide...

Channel Microwave Corp. has recently been awarded $3.1 M in contracts for components and subsystems used for military and homeland defense applications. These contracts will be completed next year with expected follow-on orders....

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that Samsung is leveraging both quad-band GSM/EDGE and next-generation WCDMA front-end solutions to power a variety of new 3G smart phones including the Pixon12, a 12 megapixel...

DecaWave , the fabless semiconductor company, has partnered with the Dublin Institute of Technology's Antenna & High Frequency Research Group (AHFR) for antenna design research expertise for its ScenSor chip. The resulting antennas are optimized, but are fully customizable to client technologies and application needs and specifications. The ScenSor...

As the wireless industry prepares for the launch of LTE networks, Spirent Communications plc has announced the Spirent LTE Network Emulator, which is a collaboration with AT4 wireless . The new emulator shares a common platform with AT4 wireless’ E2010 Broadband Wireless Test Set and integrates Spirent’s real-time state...

Plextek , the electronics and communications design consultancy, based in Cambridge, UK, has launched a range of strategic activities to cover environmental advice and evaluation. The company is now able to help clients in communications equipment and services markets to evaluate technology options that both benefit the environment and...

A major order of more than €6 M for laser systems for manufacturing three dimensional cellphone antennae is the latest in a string of successful achievements that LPKF has been able to report in recent months. The client is a major international electronics group. “This order, the biggest in...