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Smartphone shipments to emerging markets will drive growth in the worldwide smartphone market in the years ahead. According to the latest smartphone forecast from the International Data Corp. (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China will become the leading country-level market for smartphone shipments in 2012, moving ahead of the current leader, the United States. Looking ahead to 2016, two additional emerging markets, India and Brazil, will enter the top five country markets for smartphone shipments.

X-COM Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Bird Technologies Group, introduced Version 3.0 of its Spectro-X software, the industry’s most comprehensive tool designed to search for signals of interest within long-duration recordings of signal activity in the RF and microwave spectrum. The new features in Spectro-X Version 3.0 include a “zoom” function that lets users more easily focus on a specific point in time and frequency, and integrated pulse search and analysis capability that allows long pulse trains to be identified based on key signal characteristics.

TDK company EPCOS, a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems, and Pulse Electronics, a leading antenna manufacturer, used AWR’s Microwave Office to design indie, a breakthrough technology that answers the challenge from carriers in the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance to develop a single, operator-independent RF platform supporting all NGMN operator frequency bands.

Versatile Power Inc., a technology leader in the design and manufacture of custom electronic subsystems, announced it has been selected to present at the 41st Annual Ultrasonic Industry Association (UIS) Symposium in San Francisco, Calif., April 16-18, 2012, at the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel.

Rohde & Schwarz offers manufacturers of mobile devices and consumer electronics two universal test platforms: the R&S CMW500 and the R&S CMW270. The R&S CMW500 covers all common cellular and non-cellular standards, while the R&S CMW270 has been customized for non-cellular standards. New options now provide additional WLAN signaling functions.

Agilent announces two new videos, “MIPI M-PHY Automated Tx Test Demo” and “Anticipate Multi-Standard Radio (MSR) Performance with Agilent SystemVue”, created to help understand the intricacies of the evolving cellular standards to enable faster delivery of  products to market. 

Rogers Corp. will be highlighting two of its leading printed-circuit-board (PCB) laminate materials for commercial and military satellite-communications (satcom) electronic applications at the upcoming Satellite 2012 Exhibition. 

Tektronix Inc. announced a complete automated solution for MIPI Alliance M-PHY testing, providing the industry’s widest and most complete coverage of this emerging standard.

RFMD announced the expansion of its product portfolio to include new 3G/4G antenna control solutions optimized to solve complex RF requirements of 3G/4G smartphones.

Azimuth Systems Inc. announced robust enhancements to its popular Azimuth Field-to-Lab^™(FTL) solution. This latest release of FTL offers new features that allow customers to better visualize the radio environment, profile channel conditions, and more accurately recreate “real world” conditions in the lab using Azimuth’s integrated (open) automation platform, Testbuilder.