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Infineon Technologies has been conferred the Global Award for Supply Chain Excellence by the renowned Supply Chain Council (SCC) in recognition of outstanding contributions towards logistics process improvement. The company also received the Award for Supply Chain Operational Excellence. Both awards honor the successful reorganization of the company’s global...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Herley New England division in Woburn, MA, has received a $3 M contract from a US prime contractor to produce diplexers and attenuators for use in Radar Warning Receivers (RWR). Radar warning receivers are electronic systems that detect all radar signals, determine the...

The Phase Matrix model PLS-4900-Q10E is a high performance, low noise, 4.9 GHz phase-locked oscillator (PLO). The design of this PLO’s primary source consists of a low-noise, bipolar-silicon-transistor oscillator. In addition, a buffer amplifier in the output path provides the desired power output and load isolation. Power output is...

As the demand for thinner, larger and more expensive LCD displays continues to grow, designers and manufacturers face new challenges with these increasingly complex technologies. Rogers Corp. ’s newest offering - PORON® ShockSeal foams - are specifically engineered to meet the challenging cushioning, sealing and protection requirements that larger...

The proliferation of wireless communication devices in daily surroundings shows no sign of stagnation. It is also obvious that no single technology is capable of satisfying all the needs of the vast number of applications within private or industrial environments. In the quest for multimedia-capable data rates, the need...

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced six- and four-channel electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters for LCD display applications, the TPD6F202 and TPD4F202. Electrostatic discharge (ESD) ratings exceed the IEC 61000-4-2 specification by at least three times for contact discharge. Both are 67 percent better than the specification for air-gap discharge. This...

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced the industry's first integrated IQ modulator in full production for the wireless infrastructure market. The high-performance TRF372017 integrates a direct up-conversion IQ modulator with a phase-locked loop (PLL) and wideband voltage crystal oscillator (VCO) to simplify local oscillator (LO) design and reduce board space....

ITS Electronics Inc. announced an initial $4 M contract with TECOM Industries Inc. to supply its High Power Transceiver-HPT, which will enable the antenna system for a major commercial carrier’s new onboard Wi-Fi service. TECOM’s KuStream™ 1000 antenna system is being installed on the carrier’s fleet of more than...

Cobham Sensor Systems , a gallium-arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) supplier, has completed the requalification of its new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Blacksburg, VA. The relocation of its manufacturing and design facilities from Roanoke to Blacksburg began in February and culminated in October with the successful completion...

RF Micro Devices (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced that it has been awarded a $1.5 M R&D contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) related to gallium nitride (GaN) microelectronics, including the development of materials,...