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Nujira has expanded its development team focused on bringing to market a Coolteq™ solution to address the ballooning cost, size and power consumption of 4G handset RF front ends. As vice president of handset development, Julian Hildersley will lead a team that includes Martin Wilson, chief scientist and founder,...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is the latest organization to sign up to the Chief Executive Officer charter, to ensure that more women are attracted to the science, engineering and technology sectors (SET). In the UK, more than 500,000 women are qualified to work in engineering, science...

One of the top 10 system-on-chip (SoC) design companies in Taiwan has taken an ARC® license. The new customer is incorporating ARC International's low power solution into cellular baseband designs targeting the worldwide cellular handset market. The company chose ARC IP because it could custom tailor the performance, while...

The worldwide RFID market will exceed $5.3 B in 2008, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Annual revenue growth will increase over the next five years, accelerating over the mid-term as high-growth, high-volume applications such as supply chain management, ID documents, ticketing and contactless payment drive shipments....

Computer Simulation Technology AG (CST) announces the release of version 2009 of the electromagnetic simulation software CST STUDIO SUITE™, including its flagship product CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS). Researchers and design engineers use CST STUDIO SUITE for the analysis and optimisation of EM-based components. By choosing the most appropriate...

2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will...

PrismTech™ , a leader in advanced software integration and infrastructure solutions, announced that the regulatory and certification authority for both Software Communications Architecture (SCA) and JTRS compliance, the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Testing and Evaluation Lab (JTEL), has selected its Spectra™ 2 tools suite to assist with the...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced two new additions to its medium power amplifier product line. These GaAs PHEMT MMIC amplifiers provide frequency coverage in the 5 to 18 GHz and 34 to 42 GHz bands, and are...

Agilent ’s Advanced Design System (ADS) 2008 Update 2 provides new updated wireless verification models that are compliant with Version 8.3 of the emerging 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. The new models support creation of Frame structure 1 – FS1 (FDD) multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) signals in 2x2...

Aeroflex/Weinschel introduces a series of Programmable Step Attenuators that provide attenuation from 0 to 70 dB or 0 to 110 dB in 10 dB steps. These attenuators provide programmable adjustments of RF signal levels in precise steps of 10 dB and consist of a cascaded assembly of switched attenuator...