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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. announced that its first power management products, the UltraCMOS®-based Point-of-Load (POL) DC-DC Buck Regulators with integrated switches, are available for sampling.

Mercury Computer Systems Inc. announced that it has received a contract from a major defense prime contractor to provide high performance digital signal processing modules and software to facilitate a technology refresh for the prime’s airborne radar application. The Mercury solution and subsequent refresh will also protect the prime’s significant investment in software development across a range of products.

Harris Corp. has been awarded an IDIQ contract with a potential total value of $400 million to provide the U.S. Special Operations Command with next-generation communication capabilities.

Visit Microwave Journal's Online Show Daily page for the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2012 in Montreal for the latest coverage of the show and conference.

Rogers Corp. will be offering a wide range of its high performance circuit board materials at the upcoming Del Mar Electronics & Design Show on May 2-3, 2012 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego, CA. Representatives from Rogers Advanced Circuit Materials Division will be available at Booth #622 to help visitors obtain optimum performance using the company’s many different circuit board material offerings.

Auriga Microwave announces the promotion of Dr. Nickolas Kingsley to Director of Engineering. Dr. Kingsley will assume responsibility for managing Auriga’s RF/microwave engineering team while Dr. Yusuke Tajima, Auriga’s CTO, will focus on driving Auriga to the elite heights of GaN- and GaAs-based RF microwave front ends. 

Teseq Inc., a leading developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, announced it has hired Michael Yantz as its new Vice President of Business Development. Yantz, who is a veteran in the EMC testing industry, will focus on cultivating new North American and international sales channels and opportunities for Teseq while expanding the company’s reach into new markets.

Wireless connectivity ICs totaled more than $8 billion in 2011 and will produce revenues close to $40 billion for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, GPS, and combo ICs through 2016.

Agilent announced the industry’s most advanced PC-based oscilloscope analysis software, which allows engineers to analyze previously captured signals from oscilloscopes made by Agilent and other vendors.

Four new MMIC Upconverter and Downconverter devices from RFMD offer high performance and low cost for high frequency applications. The RFUV1002 and RFUV1003 Upconverters incorporate an image rejection mixer, LO buffer amplifier, variable gain amplifier, and DC-decoupling capacitor. The RFRX1001 and RFRX1002 Downconverters incorporate an image rejection mixer, LO buffer amplifier, integrated LNA, and DC-decoupling capacitor. Each device is packaged in a 5 x 5 mm QFN to simplify both system-level board design and volume assembly.