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RF Industries Ltd. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Long Island, NY-based Cables Unlimited Inc. (CUI), a seller of high value fiber-optic cabling and connector products to enterprise and carrier network customers, for a total purchase price of $5.6 M, consisting of $2.8 M in cash and...

At IMS 2011 in Baltimore, NMDG announced that the list of DC pulsers and pulsed DC receivers supported in the NMDG ICE software platform has been extended with the Focus MPIV pulsed IV system and the Rohde & Schwarz RTO scope. Using NMDG extension kits for vector network analysers,...

At IMS 2011, Valpey Fisher Corp. , a leading provider of high performance integrated products for timing and frequency control announced its latest product offering: the VFH3225, the industry’s smallest size high reliability/commercial off the shelf (COTS) oscillator which offers outstanding performance for military applications. The device delivers frequency...

The biggest news of the show was National Instruments’ acquisition of AWR and Phase Matrix. This brings together the high frequency component capabilities of Phase Matrix to NI hardware and the modeling expertise of AWR for integration with the test systems. David Vye was able to interview the NI...

ADI introduced two 1 W, 2-stage RF driver amplifiers featuring the ability to cover the entire cellular frequency range used in wireless communications systems. The highly-integrated are pin-compatible, easy-to-tune and integrate two stages of gain, thereby saving significant board space when compared to traditional discrete designs. ADI also introduced...

Components AML Communications had a variety of new products that included GaN amplifiers to 18 GHz with wide band options up to 2 to 18 GHz and 20 W or 100 W at 7.8 to 11 GHz. The also have released low phase noise units such as a 2...

Nuhertz Technologies has introduced a new feature, an electromagnetic co-simulation technique, in its design software program, FilterSolutions®2011. The technique was introduced at the “Simulation and Surrogate Driven Microwave Design Technology” workshop at IMS 2011 in Baltimore, MD. The Nuhertz software creates synthesized designs of filters. The newly presented co-simulation...

The expression “too big to fail” may have a lot of negative connotations when it comes to bailing-out institutions responsible for the global financial crisis, but when it comes to describing the annual International Microwave Symposium and its exhibition, the size of this event is all that matters. “Big”...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has introduced its eighth generation (Gen8) LDMOS RF power transistors for wireless base stations – allowing signal bandwidths up to 60 MHz and providing optimized I/O matching structures to enable wideband, affordable, compact, multi-standard and highly efficient Doherty power amplifiers. The transistors were introduced during IMS...