RF & Microwave Industry News

TestBench Archives

Preview and links to past TestBench articles, a monthly feature of WWW.MicrowaveJournal.Com
December 2010 Aeroflex Introduces New SGA By Aeroflex Aeroflex has just introduced a new range of general purpose portable benchtop RF instruments at an attractive price. The first products include two SGAs covering the 100 KHz to 3 and 6 GHz range. These signal generators are compact and lightweight...
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Comtech Wins $11 M Order

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Orlando, FL-based subsidiary, Comtech Systems Inc., received an order for $11 M from an international prime contractor for transportable troposcatter systems to be used by a middle eastern government. This is the first material troposcatter equipment contract with this foreign government. The order...
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Skyworks Unveils CMOS Front-end Module

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced a cost-effective complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) front-end module (FEM) for general packet radio service (GPRS) handsets. Skyworks’ newest device, the SKY77555, offers handset OEMs industry-leading architectures...
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Agilent Introduces Wide-bandwidth Oscilloscope

Agilent Technologies Inc. expanded its digital communications analyzer (DCA) portfolio with the introduction of the 86100D DCA-X wide-bandwidth oscilloscope. The DCA-X provides engineers with the tools needed to characterize their high-speed digital designs easily and accurately. The DCA-X mainframe platform will allow engineers to make next-generation measurements that include...
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Tektronix and Fluke Donate to DeVry University

Tektronix Inc. and Fluke Corp. announced that they have donated $100,000 to DeVry University for a five-year scholarship program. In the program, $20,000 will be awarded each year in $1,000 scholarships to 20 students each in the name of Tektronix and Fluke. "We are very pleased to be able...
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AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro Streamlines PCB Design

AWR® Corp. , a leader in high frequency EDA, announced AWR Connected™ for Cadence® Allegro®, which enables PCB and RF co-design, simplifying the design process for high performance printed circuit board (PCB) design and significantly shortening cycle times. AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro is an interface between Cadence’s Allegro...
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EDAFocus Archives

Preview and links to past EDAFocus articles, a monthly feature on RF/microwave design and manufacturing support software.
October 2010 HSPICE Enhances Speed and Capacity By David Vye, MWJ Last month, Synopsys announced HSPICE® Precision Parallel (HPP) multi-threading technology would be a significant enhancement to the next release of the analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator HPICE 2010. The new capability, which utilizes a scalable multi-core engine, delivers up to...
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