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ISCO International, LLC, a leading provider of flexible spectrum conditioning solutions for wireless service providers, today announced that Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has successfully implemented ISCO’s Proteus™ spectrum conditioning equipment in order to increase capacity, improve performance and provide a superior customer experience from Shentel’s PCS network. The implementation...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. announced availability of the RoHS-compliant PE64904 and PE64905 DuNE™ Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTC). The new 5-bit, 32-state digitally controlled variable capacitors provide a monolithically integrated impedance tuning solution for demanding RF applications. These UltraCMOS™-based devices enable wide-band tunable networks, minimizing mismatch losses, improving system efficiency and...

Active Spectrum Inc. demonstrated the latest tunable filter technology for co-site interference mitigation in next generation cellular radio, wireless communication and radar systems at the 2011 International Microwave Symposium in Baltimore, MD. Next generation radar and wireless communication systems have stringent requirements for transmit and receive isolation, and future...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. closed its acquisition of SiGe Semiconductor Inc. , a leading global supplier of radio frequency (RF) front-end solutions that are facilitating wireless multimedia across a wide range of applications. The companies entered into a definitive agreement on May 17, 2011. Per the terms of the agreement,...

TowerJazz announced a signed agreement with Public and Private Consortium Tecnopolis del Sur (Tecnopolis del Sur) to help foster research and technological development in Argentina to enable product competitiveness in the international market. The terms of the agreement include training of the R&D groups of Tecnopolis del Sur by...

The consumer wireless market has seen a “rebirth” of sorts in the last few years, as new data-hungry, mobile devices infiltrate the market and compete for bandwidth on the network. The resurgence in WiFi has been in large part due to the inability of the cellular network to keep...

In the MMIC arena, microwave functions previously achieved with a chain of multiple single-function MMICs are being replaced with more highly integrated, application-specific, multi-function MMICs. As a result, functions recently requiring 10 to 15 individual MMICs are now being designed with as few as four MMICs. Similarly in the...

Today, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is much more than GPS, which was introduced for civilian use more than a decade ago. Nations around the world are working on their own navigation satellite systems for strategic reasons and also to offer improved user experience. Today, two GNSS systems...

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and an RF measurement is only as reliable as the most uncertain component or practice. Increasing complexity of communication schemes are driving stringent performance requirements of today’s RF components and networks. The vector network analyzer (VNA) is the instrument...

Modern base station receivers for wireless communication infrastructures cope with extreme sensitivity and intermodulation characteristics, requiring sub 1 dB noise figures and high linearity for the low noise amplifier (LNA). Until recently, these specifications were only met using compound semiconductor technologies like GaAs PHEMT. However, NXP’s latest developments with...