Industry News

Low Density Laminate Overcomes PTFE Limitations

Circuit weight and density are critical factors in some microwave applications, notably in satellites and airborne systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). To meet the needs for high electrical performance with mechanical reliability, Rogers Corp. has developed a new addition to its well-known line of RT/duroid® circuit-board materials: RT/duroid...
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Catalog Update

Application Notes These free application notes provide insight into solving tough measurement problems in a unique way; in both the manufacturing and design environments. Offering the best combination of speed and scalability, and created and supported by renowned worldwide measurement experts, Agilent’s X products help engineers bring innovative, higher-performing...
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New Products

New Waves: Government and Military Electronics
WiFi/WiMAX Power Dividers BroadWave Technologies has expanded its WiFi/WiMAX power divider offering to include four-, six- and eight-way configurations. Model series 151-215-XXX are 50 Ohm, DC to 6 GHz, 1 W units with SMA female connectors. Insertion loss is 1 dB nominal for the four-way configuration across the DC...
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The Book End

Introduction to Communication Electronic Warfare Systems; Second Edition Richard Poisel Focusing mainly on the engineering aspects of communications electronic warfare (EW) systems, this thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular Artech House book offers a current and complete introduction to the subject. The second edition adds a wealth...
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Career Corner

Making a Connection Most studies find that 60 to 70 percent of jobs are found via networking and not through the normal job posting and application process. In addition, there are a number of jobs that are never posted on web sites or advertised as they are filled directly...
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The Puzzler - October 2009

Amplifiers, Oscillators and Government Electronics Download the Puzzler Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 2 The frequency interval from 1 to 2 GHz (hyphenated) 4 802.16e (2 words) 8 The matching of the modulation, coding and other signal and protocol parameters to the conditions on the radio link (2 words)...
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WIN Semiconductors Announces Process Design Kit

AWR and WIN Semiconductors Corp. (WIN) announced the release of the WIN/AWR H2W PH50-00 process design kit (PDK). The PDK for the WIN PH50-00 GaAs enhancement/depletion-mode pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (PHEMT) and heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) foundry process is the latest in AWR’s series of PDKs available to...
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