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Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and a provider of RF integrated circuits, is introducing a TruPwr® RF power detector for 3G and 4G mobile terminals. The ADL5505 TruPwr RF power detector is a highly accurate, easy-to-use device for determining the RMS...

Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, the University of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government are partnering to establish a AU$10 M research centre that will be devoted to innovation in energy-efficient networks and technologies. Bell Labs and the University of Melbourne will share governance of the Centre for Energy-Efficient...

SELEX Galileo has concluded an agreement with ATMOS, a subsidiary of ATECH, to establish them as the Brazilian AESA Radar Centre of Excellence and Airborne Radar Systems House. The agreement is in accordance with the Brazilian Defence Strategy's intention to strengthen the country's national defence industrial capability. The agreement...

Spectrum Control Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of custom electronic products and systems, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets and assume certain liabilities of Sage Laboratories Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ceralta Technologies Inc. Sage Labs, with operations...

Cellular and mobile broadband PC modem shipments grew more than 55 percent in 2009. In 2008, a total of 46.4 million such modems (including USB models, PC Card modems and wireless routers) shipped; in 2009, that figure grew to more than 72 million, according to the latest market data...

A Canadian horticulture research center has contracted with Raytheon Co. to install a prototype microwave frost protection system at its Ontario vineyard. Tempwave™ is a Raytheon-developed system that uses low-level microwave radiant heat to prevent frost damage to crops. Microwave energy is transmitted from towers located in an orchard...

Global mobile handset shipments totaled approximately 1.15 billion in 2009, with enhanced phones and smartphones capturing approximately 81 percent of all handset shipments, according to the latest data from ABI Research. According to Industry Analyst Celia Bo, "In recent years the major technology and application trends in handset design...

Boonton , a Wireless Telecom Group company, introduces a new, very fast 59340 Peak Power Sensor for frequencies up to 40 GHz. Wireless technology is getting increasingly demanding for test and measurement equipment. Highly dynamic signals, often with noise-like signal characteristics, fast switching carriers and pulsed signals, need to...

Semiconductors/ MMICs/ RFICs Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 3 Largest pure play GaAs foundry (2 words) 8 Class of in-phase, equal power split, N-way power divid- ers combines resistive and reactive dividers (2 words) 9 A fourth metal terminal added to a FET structure and biased to improve device...

The current trend in the growing S-band market demands wider bandwidths, higher power levels and wider pulses, which are best served with a new technology to satisfy these advanced requirements. AlGaN/GaN HEMT on silicon substrate technology is a viable alternative to traditional technologies for high power transistors used in...