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Cree Inc. , a major force in the development of Silicon Carbide (SiC) MESFETs and Gallium Nitride (GaN) HEMTs for RF and microwave wireless applications, relies on AWR 's Microwave Office design environment to bring its hybrid-based GaN power amplifiers to fruition. One of the most impressive (and challenging)...

Cascade Microtech Inc. announced the release of two products that streamline engineering and production testing of high-bandwidth, short-range RFIC devices for WirelessHD™, automotive radar and other 60 GHz wireless applications. Using a combination of Cascade Microtech's proprietary thin-film technology and coaxial probe technology from its industry-leading Infinity Probe® architecture,...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced two new GaAs MMIC SMT low noise amplifier and driver amplifier products, which allow designers to address point-to-point microwave radio, military, space, VSAT, and test instrumentation applications from 14 to 40 GHz....

San-tron Inc. has announced the release of a new UG-27 C/U, the first right angle adapter to feature solderless construction. The solder-free construction offers dependability equal to a straight plug while achieving 90° bends. The solder-free adapters also address ROHS compliancy issues by reducing lead content. The 50 ohm...

At the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Infineon Technologies AG introduced a family of high-power LDMOS transistors for design of broadband wireless network base stations. With industry leading power levels up to 300 W and video bandwidth exceeding 90 MHz, the new transistors fully support the high peak to...

Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced Advanced Design System (ADS) 2009 Update 1, the industry's first complete, front-to-back solution for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and RF module design. The release integrates 3-D electromagnetic (EM) analysis, wireless standards-based design verification libraries, X-parameter simulation, and statistical design and yield optimization. Advanced...

Jazz Semiconductor® , a Tower Group company and a leader in Analog-intensive Mixed-signal (AIMS) foundry solutions, announced its ISO/TS 16949 certification, the highest international quality standard for the automotive industry. This represents a critical milestone in the company’s strategic roadmap and has paved the way for increased presence in...

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Gore) announced that Richardson Electronics Ltd. will now sell Gore’s high performance line of Test & Measurement Microwave/RF Cable Assemblies. “Richardson and Gore have built a strong relationship around Gore’s ePTFE and PTFE material technology bringing solutions for EMI grounding and shielding,” said Mark...

Amplifiers/Semiconductors Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 4 The vector ratio of voltage to current, the reciprocal of admittance 9 Wideband gap III-V material used to produce broadband, high power amplifiers 11 Undesired changes in a waveform that result in spurious content of the signal 14 A device or impedance...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , received $4.4 M of orders for broadband, solid state, high-power RF microwave amplifier systems from an international OEM. The amplifier systems, which include the latest solid-state switching and transistor technology, and provide for very broad frequency...