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Demand for wireless sensor networks is showing significant growth following a period in which adoption was impacted by the economic downturn. In 2009, 802.15.4 chipset shipments were down almost 30 percent compared with the previous year. But according to the latest ABI Research report on the WSN market, a...

Rogers Corp. ’s High Performance Foams Division will be exhibiting its new BISCO® A2 Sound Barrier silicone material at the upcoming Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas, Long Beach, CA, September 14-16, 2010, Rogers booth # 958. The new BISCO A2 Sound Barrier has been designed to meet challenging aircraft standards...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced eight new measurement applications for its PXA X-Series signal analyzer. The measurement applications cover a range of industry standards in cellular communication, wireless networking, digital video and other general purpose applications. In addition, three new measurement applications have been added to Agilent’s MXA and EXA...

WIN Semiconductors Corp. , a pure-play Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) foundry, and Presto Engineering , a semiconductor product engineering company, announced a strategic collaboration to deliver characterization and testing services for companies developing products utilizing GaAs technology from WIN. The agreement covers wafer-level and packaged part development activities, including design...

Cree Inc. announced that it has achieved a major breakthrough in the development and wide scale commercialization of silicon carbide (SiC) technology with the demonstration of high quality, 150-mm SiC substrates with micropipe densities of less than 10/cm2. The current Cree standard for SiC substrates is 100-mm diameter material....

Euroconsult , an international research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite and space sectors, forecast that the number of satellite communications terminals aboard commercial and private ships will more than double over the next decade as demand for bandwidth on the high seas continues to surge. In a...

European Microwave Week Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 1 A component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency 7 A property of some electric circuits where an increase in the current entering a port results in a decreased voltage across the same port...

The market for short-range wireless ICs is forecast to expand this year; total shipments of Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi ICs will increase approximately 20 percent compared to 2009. “Bluetooth ICs still lead the short-range wireless IC market,” says ABI Research Industry Analyst Celia Bo. “Unit shipments are...

Help may be on the way for iPhone 4 users frustrated by dropped calls with the arrival of Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Systems (RF MEMS), semiconductors that can improve the performance of antennas in cell phones, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. Long plagued by technological hurdles and...

DARPA is soliciting innovative research and development (R&D) proposals in the area of Cognitive radio Low-energy signal Analysis Sensor Integrated Circuits (CLASIC), a thrust within the DARPA Adaptive RF Technology (ART) program. The goal of CLASIC is to enable monolithic, high performance, ultra high energy efficiency, signal recognition integrated...