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Aeroflex Modular Test Platform Expands Testing Capabilities

Aeroflex announced the addition of new communications standards to its PXI 3000 Series modular test platform, now enabling communications test engineers to address a variety of 2G and 3G wireless data standards with a single, flexible, software-defined system. With the addition of the new Bluetooth measurement suite and the...
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Rogers Debuts LoPro™ Laminates

The Advanced Circuit Materials (ACM) Division of Rogers Corp. introduced RO4730™ LoPro™ laminates for base station, RFID and other antenna designs. RO4730 LoPro laminate materials combine low-loss dielectric with low-profile copper foil for reduced passive intermodulation (PIM) and low insertion loss. The specially formulated RO4730 LoPro thermoset resin system...
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Crystek Launches 136 to 174 MHz Red Box VCO

Crystek 's CRBV55FL-0136-0174 Red Box voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) operates from 136 to 174 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5~4.5V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -123 dBc/Hz @ 10 KHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +9 dBm. Crystek’s Red Box line...
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GaAs Bulk Substrate Market Shrinks in 2009

The Strategy Analytics annual forecast, “Semi-insulating GaAs Substrate Markets: 2008-2012,” covering the semi-insulating (SI) GaAs (gallium arsenide) bulk substrate market concludes that the strong inventory corrections taken in the fourth quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009 will prevent the severe sharp decline observed in 2001. However, the...
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Aeroflex Introduces TD-LTE Multi-UE Test Mobile

Aeroflex announced the TM500 TD-LTE Multi-UE, adding multiple handset (multi-UE) testing capabilities to its market-leading test mobile range supporting TD-LTE infrastructure development. The TM500 TD-LTE Multi-UE enables TD-LTE infrastructure equipment vendors to test the performance of their TD-LTE base stations (e-NodeBs) under loaded conditions, accelerating the pace of infrastructure...
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AWR Introduces Version 2009 of Microwave Office Design Software

AWR , a leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced Version 2009 of its Microwave Office design suite. The latest release of AWR's flagship product features new MRHB technology that dramatically increases the speed and reduces the computer memory required to perform steady-state analysis of complex nonlinear systems...
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