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The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has taken the next step in setting up the UK Innovation Investment Fund (UK IIF), a venture capital fund of funds to support the UK’s technology companies. Capital for Enterprise Ltd. will release the Request for Proposals (RFP) for prospective Fund...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Varian Inc. announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Agilent of Varian, a worldwide supplier of scientific instrumentation and associated consumables for life science and applied market applications. Agilent will pay $52 cash per share of common stock for Varian...

The economic downturn has impacted governments, industries, companies (large and small) and individuals. The RF and microwaves industry is no exception and while its diversity means that some sectors have faired better than others, very few have remained unscathed. Unfortunately, for many companies the terms restructuring, rationalisation and cost...

Bob is asked to develop a new radio system design, with some tough goals on RF performance and power consumption. Like many RF engineers, Bob has never really been comfortable with mixers. There is something mysterious about how they convert one frequency to another, and his formal education only...

HRL Laboratories LLC announced it has received Phase 2 funding to continue developing the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, or CT2WS. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the goal of the CT2WS program is to improve warfighter situational awareness in a variety of operations, including reconnaissance,...

Agilent Technologies introduced a VME/VXS module that simultaneously provides wide input signal bandwidth and dynamic range. The SVM3500 is a quad-channel 12-bit digitizer allowing channel interleaving to provide sampling up to 2 GS/s. With more than 2 GHz analog bandwidth, the module is ideal for applications in radar, Electronic...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two final-stage LDMOS RF power transistors giving designers a choice between discrete and integrated circuit (IC) solutions. This choice, along with two accompanying reference designs, offers designers greater flexibility and speeds time to market. The new transistors are optimized for use in power amplifiers based on...

HRL Laboratories LLC announced that it has partnered with the National Secure Manufacturing Center at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant (KCP) to provide multiple-project wafer services to the Department of Defense (DoD) Trusted Foundry Program. The National Secure Manufacturing Center provides the national security community secure...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and leading provider of amplifier technology, introduced a compact, 36 V precision JFET-input (junction field-effect transistor input) operational amplifier (op amp) with low noise and distortion over a wide temperature range. The 19 MHz ADA4627 JFET-input...

ENS Microwave LLC announces that it has opened business as a small, woman-owned manufacturer of high performance flexible and semi-flexible microwave cable assemblies. Kristen Schretzenmayer, formerly VP of Operations at IW, Microwave Products Division, has assembled a staff with over 50 years experience in the interconnect industry. ENS offers...