Industry News

Design of a Dual-band Planar Dipole Antenna for WLAN Applications

In this article, a dipole antenna is designed to operate in the 2.4 and 5.2 GHz WLAN bands. A novel T-shape slit is embedded in the dipole antenna to achieve dual-band operation for WLAN applications, and to avoid increasing the area of the antenna. Th...
There has recently been much research on broadband and multi-band antennas for various wireless communication systems. The IEEE has issued regulations for the wireless local area network (WLAN, 802.11a/b) since 1999. The development of WLAN has already reached maturity and has become fairly universal. The development of antennas used...
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Tailored RF & Microwave EDA Solutions

Today’s engineering environment puts diverse requirements on simulation tools, demanding large spatial dimensions in terms of the computational domain on the one hand, while incorporating small, detailed and complex structures on the other. What’s needed is to address these spatial limitations and apply more advanced simulation routines for combined...
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Catalog Update

PNA-X Brochure Agilent now offers a new 32-page brochure that describes in detail the PNA-X premier-performance microwave network analyzers’ applications, measurement functions, and the latest in calibration technology. The PNA-X provides the widest range of measurement applications in a single connection with breakthrough speed, accuracy, and performance compared to...
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New Products

New Waves: RF & Microwave Software
Front-to-back Solution Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced Advanced Design System (ADS) 2009 Update 1, a complete, front-to-back solution for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and RF module design. The release integrates 3-D electromagnetic (EM) analysis, wireless standards-based design verification libraries, X-parameter simulation, and statistical design and yield optimization. Advanced...
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New Products

New Waves: RF & Microwave Software
Attenuator Design Kit EMC Technology introduces a new ultra broadband, wire bondable chip attenuator kit, K-BAND-DKIT. Designed with high frequency in mind, this kit offers a complete selection of wire bondable attenuators both fixed (KFA) and temperature variable (KTVA). The products included in the kit operate effectively in the...
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New Products

New Waves: RF & Microwave Software
Instrumentation Desktop Amplifiers MITEQ’s latest offering in its instrumentation amplifier series, Models NSP2000-NVG, NSP4000-NVG and NSP4000-NFG, are now available with a frequency range from 0.1 to 40 GHz. Fixed or digitally-controlled variable gain models are available. The variable gain models offer a digital control range of up to 15...
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The Book End

Analytical and Computational Methods in Electromagnetics Ramesh Garg This book allows one to achieve optimal microwave system performance by mastering the principles and methods underlying today’s powerful computational tools and commercial software in electromagnetics. It offers clear and complete explanations of electromagnetics, providing the analytical background needed to understand...
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Career Corner

RF/Microwave Engineering Job Market, June 2009 According to EngineerSalary.com, RF engineers held over 51,000 jobs in 2008, making this one of the smallest segments of the engineering community. They expect that this number will increase 8.2% by the end of 2010, and stay a fast growing segment until 2014....
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