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Planar Monolithics Industries (PMI) and AmpliTech are excited to announce the collaboration of their combined product offering, engineering skills and marketing efforts. AmpliTech is the vendor of choice for numerous Tier 1 and Tier 2 mil/space concerns requiring a wide variety of complex amplifiers with mission-critical specifications. PMI has...

Mimix Broadband Inc. , a supplier of high performance gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors from DC to 50 GHz for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, commemorates its 10 th year of business in 2010. The company will celebrate the occasion throughout the year, including at the 2010 IEEE MTT-S International...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the 81180A arbitrary waveform generator, a new generation of instrument that bridges the trade-off between bandwidth and bits. The 8118A is a new class of instrument, an arbitrary waveform generator that provides greater bandwidth and higher resolution. Until now, engineers had to decide between the...

Aeroflex announced that Silicon Laboratories has selected Arendar® 2009 Suite from VI Technology , an Aeroflex company. Arendar 2009 Suite is an enterprise software solution that utilizes a modular architecture, integrated security, comprehensive API and web accessibility to shorten test cycles and speed time-to-market. “We are focused on increasing...

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry organizations, Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium, announced that the organizations have completed their merger (revealed in June of last year). The new organization takes on the Accellera name and will continue to develop electronic design language-based and Intellectual Property (IP) standards of benefit to...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc. and its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp. , received satellite communications equipment orders totaling $12.1 M from a major government prime contractor. The orders are for follow-on procurements of high-power tri-band amplifiers, high-power...

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AWR KK , a division of AWR Corp., an innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, announced an invitation to designers in Japan to take the AXIEM Challenge beginning today through July 15, 2010. AWR's AXIEM EM simulator is the most accurate solver in its class and can typically solve large...

In 2010, only about 40,000 4G machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular modules will ship. All will be WiMAX-based. In contrast, ABI Research estimates that in 2015, more than 12.6 million of the devices – including LTE-compatible models – will ship worldwide. Why would M2M communication, which usually involves relatively low data-rates,...