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ON Semiconductor Corp. and SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. announced the signing of a definitive purchase agreement providing for the acquisition of SANYO Semiconductor Co. Ltd. , a subsidiary of SANYO Electric, and other assets related to SANYO Electric’s semiconductor business, by ON Semiconductor in a cash and stock transaction...

Software & Design Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 5 An iterative process of selectively refining the finite element mesh based on the results from a previous solution (2 words) 11 Radio in which some or all of the physical layer functions are software defined (3 words) 12 A class...

They go by many marketing names: Single RAN, Uni-BTS, Multi-RAN, Multi-standard Radio. But they all mean essentially the same thing: relatively simple upgrades that allow a single standard base station to support multiple technologies. The next few years will see a rapidly growing – although possibly short-lived – wave...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that Samsung Electronics is leveraging one of its power amplifier (PA) modules for the GT-B3710 – a high speed fourth generation (4G) USB modem that is the...

A new inventory management system developed by TASC Inc. for the US Navy will allow Naval warehousing facilities to automatically count and locate RFID-tagged inventory in real time. The software platform integrates a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with an inventory management system. "Good asset management is essential to...

2011 will be the year when LTE goes live in a big way, as Verizon in the United States and DoCoMo in Japan will begin wide-scale roll-outs by the end of 2010. ABI Research Analyst Bhavya Khanna reports, “132 networks have reported trials or plans to launch LTE commercially,...

Electro-Metrics introduced the all-new EM-6003 antenna kit. This complete antenna kit covers the broadest frequency range available in a small, rugged, deployable package. The EM-6003 kit features three all new passive antennas that set standards in the field. The EM-6857 "Club" provides omni-directional coverage over a frequency range greater...

Next year will be my 30 th anniversary of active duty as a marketer in the high technology world – much of it in the arena of communications technologies. I have served enterprises large and small, start-ups to international conglomerates – connectors, test equipment, synthesizers, filters, antennas, complex packages...

Summertime is associated with big blockbuster movies and beach reading material. Hollywood moguls and book publishers recognize that summer is the time to kick back and let others entertain us. In that vein (and assuming that microwave engineers aren’t the only professionals who take busmen holidays), the MWJ editorial...