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Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas has been awarded a contract to participate in a consortium on a new initiative named Beyond Next Generation (BuNGee) aimed at achieving a tenfold increase in mobile broadband infrastructure capacity. The €4.7 M initiative, which is planned to continue through June 2012, is funded...

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design, Second Edition John W.M. Rogers and Calvin Plett This newly revised and expanded edition of the 2003 Artech House classic, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design , serves as an up-to-date, practical reference for RFIC design. This edition includes numerous updates, including greater coverage of...

Industry News Pamtech founder, George F. Grund III , passed away on April 23 rd . Grund was the founder of Pamtech (Passive Microwave Technology) in March 1976. The company, located in Camarillo, CA, designs and manufactures high performance ferrite products such as circulators and isolators. Pamtech is privately...

Hittite Microwave has launched two new low cost, highly flexible RMS power detectors for RF power measurement/control in Cellular/3G, LTE/WiMAX/4G, broadband, test equipment and military applications between DC and 5.8 GHz. Ideal for the measurement of complex modulated waveforms with large, dynamically changing crest factors, the HMC1010LP4E RMS Power...

Aeroflex Inc. announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Control Components Inc. (ACC) from EMRISE Corp. for $20 M in cash. The closing of the acquisition is subject to the approval of EMRISE’s stockholders, as well as certain customary closing conditions. Closing is expected to occur...

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...