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Platronics Seals announced the purchase of the ceramic packaging group formally called Tech-Ceram Corp. from M/A-COM Technology Solutions located in Lowell, MA. Platronics Seals is a 44 year-old electronic packaging company located in Spartanburg, SC. Under the purchase agreement Platronics has acquired all ceramic manufacturing equipment, processes and raw...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and picoChip announced a high-volume manufacturing test solution for 3G femtocell products. The jointly developed solution is based on picoChip’s picoXcell semiconductors and software, and Agilent’s N7310A chipset software. The new integrated manufacturing test solution delivers rapid calibration and verification testing capabilities for original design manufacturers...

RF and microwave microstrip BPFs with high selectivity, low insertion loss, suppression of spurious sideband and wide stopband are widely used in recent wireless communication systems. 1 In 2002, the IEEE extended the 802.11b standard in the 2.4 to 2.4835 GHz frequency range; the fast development of WLAN communications...

RFaxis , a fabless semiconductor company focusing on innovative, next-generation solutions for the wireless and connectivity markets, unveiled its RFX8000 ultra-high efficiency multi-mode/multi-band transmitter integrated circuit (IC) chip for 3G and 4G cellular wireless devices. This RFX8000 chip is based on a new patent pending RF multi-mode/multi-band transmit IC...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) has certified Agilent’s GoldenGate RFIC simulator as part of UMC’s internal model validation program. The addition of the GoldenGate RFIC simulator to UMC’s advanced RF technologies will enhance the accuracy, model compatibility and simulation efficiency to help accelerate the design...

OEwaves’ OE8000 ultra-low phase noise measurement system simplifies phase noise testing for NIST . The high performance measurement system requires virtually no setup, and its user friendly interface allows simple operation and quick phase noise measurements. The unique measurement system was developed to measure OEwaves’ proprietary ultra-low phase noise...

MTT-S IMS 2010: Post-show Coverage If this page does not display correctly, go to www.mwjournal.com June 3, 2010 MTT-S IMS 2010: Making Waves in California Much of the success of the IMS is the yearly draw of engineers to the industry's premier technical content. The volunteers of the technical...

In the 1980s, the running joke was "GaAs is the future and always will be." Up until that time it had shown great promise, but was having a hard time living up to its performance potential and was plagued by high material costs and inconsistent processes. However, due to...

The ADF7242 is a low power, short-range transceiver designed for operation in the global 2.4 GHz ISM band. It complies with the IEEE 802.15.4-2006 2.4 GHz PHY requirements with a fixed net data rate of 250 kbps and DSSS-OQPSK modulation. Additionally with GFSK/FSK modulation, the ADF7242 supports a wide...

GaAs MESFET-based switches have been a mainstay of the celluar telephony marketplace for more than two decades. These switches have and continue to deliver high performance over the entire cellular spectrum. Additionally, they are capable of very broadband performance; able to handle moderate power levels; and accomplish this at...