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The SANITAS (“Enabling safer systems by a new collaborative verification methodology across the entire value chain”) project, which aims to strengthen German competiveness by developing processes and verification methods for more flexible and secure automated manufacturing, has been launched by leading German companies. Under the project management of Infineon...

Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract valued at approximately €46 M for the sale of its ARTHUR Weapon Locating System (WLS) to the Italian Army. The order was obtained in collaboration with the Italian partner Selex Sistemi Integrati, who will supply the command and communications solution,...

Motorola Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Israel-based Motorola Integrated Radio System (MIRS) to the Altice Group, a European investor in media and telecommunications. Utilizing Motorola’s iDEN technology, MIRS provides telecommunications solutions to a wide range of customers in Israel including health services, fire and rescue,...

Industry News Crane Co. , a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, and Merrimac Industries Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of RF microwave components, assemblies and micro-multifunction modules, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Merrimac by Crane. Crane...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Herley Lancaster division has received a follow-on contract valued at more than $1 M from a major US prime contractor to manufacture multi-function integrated microwave assemblies (IMA) for a US Navy electronic attack aircraft. Richard F. Poirier, CEO and President, commented, "This award...

Forward Concepts has announced the publication of its newest in-depth study of the worldwide Smartphone market and the key chips that enable them. The extensive (470-page) study, "Smartphone Device & Chip Market Opportunities '10," covers the top 24 Smartphone vendors and their 2009 market shares and change from 2008....

AWR® , a leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced that Sherry Hess, Vice President of Marketing, has re-launched her popular guest blog (first appearing on Microwave Journal ’s website) on the AWR website. The new AWR blog is designed to provoke discussion of industry issues and trends...

Narda , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the Model 4916 broadband isolator, which is a rugged unit that provides high isolation and low insertion loss and has an operating frequency of 11 to 18 GHz. The Model 4916 has isolation of at least 20 dB, insertion loss of 0.5...

Richardson Electronics Ltd. announced it has teamed with Scintera Inc. to bring Scintera’s recently announced SC1887 to the worldwide market. The SC1887 delivers critically needed power amplifier linearity improvements without requiring access to the I/Q baseband signals. This digitally controlled analog technology works at the RF signal level, can...

Sapphicon Semiconductor , a designer and manufacturer of high performance integrated circuits based on silicon-on-sapphire (SoS) process technology, and AWR Corp. , a leader in high frequency EDA, introduced process design kits (PDK) for AWR software that support Sapphicon’s advanced SoS processes. AWR’s Analog Office® RFIC design software is...