Industry News

World’s First Soldier ‘Smart Radio’ has Mapping Tools, Video Transmission

Harris Corp. has introduced the RF-7800S-LR Leader Radio, the world's first soldier "smart radio" – with embedded GPS, encryption and a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The RF-7800S-LR provides unit leaders with combat-proven tactical communication and computing capabilities in a single, lightweight device for enhanced mission flexibility. The Harris RF-7800S-LR...
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Raytheon Awarded $32 M for US Navy’s Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $32.2 M US Navy contract for the Global Positioning System-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Service program for Navy surface and subsurface platforms. GPNTS, designed to replace the current Navigation Sensor System Interface, supports mission-critical real-time positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data services, including...
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ERA Update

Proposed in January 2000 by the European Commission in its communication Towards a European Research Area, the creation of a European Research Area was given new impetus in 2007 with the European Commission's Green Paper on ERA. The Treaty of Lisbon introduces a legal basis for the creation of...
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German Project to RELY on Developing New Chip Design Methodology for Self-test

Seven partners from the German business and research communities are teaming up in the three-year RELY research project to explore ways of enhancing the quality, reliability and resilience of modern microelectronic systems. The focus will be on applications in transportation, medical technology and automation – sectors where microelectronics is...
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COST-TERRA Promotes More CR Trials

COST-TERRA, a forum spearheading a regulatory breakthrough for the European development of Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio (CR/SDR) technologies, is promoting more active trials of CR to identify its best feasible application, guide policy-makers to open a regulatory framework and facilitate development of the technology. After assessing several...
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Markets for Millimeter-wave Products Growing Rapidly, Engalco Reports

Engalco has released a new industry and markets report covering the following categories of connectorized microwave and millimeter-wave modules: broadband amplifiers, limiting amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, low phase-noise amplifiers, medium-power amplifiers, power amplifiers, CW-immune DLVAs, SDLVAs, "Other" DLVAs, frequency converters, frequency synthesizers and transceivers. "Amplifiers and Integrated Microwave Assemblies"...
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Around the Circuit

Industry News TowerJazz announced the closing of the sale of all its holdings in Hua Hong Semiconductor Ltd . (HHSL), the parent company of HHNEC , one of Mainland China's leaders in the field of IC foundry service, in a HHSL share repurchase transaction for $32 M in cash....
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