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ITT Corp. announced a strategic realignment of its defense segment, a move designed to better align the company with the emerging needs of its expanding global customer base, which is increasingly integrated and network-centric. The realignment will enable better integration of its product portfolio, encouraging a more coordinated market...

Next generation wireless systems are moving towards ever increasing data rates, higher spectral efficiency and improved quality of service. This development has largely been facilitated by advanced terminals with multiple antennas. However, the use of multiple antennas not only opens up new opportunities, but also presents new testing challenges....

S-parameters have been used to represent linear networks for simulation and design since the 1960s. Measuring S-parameters was made possible with the introduction of the network analyzer. Designers could then integrate S-parameter "black-boxes" along with other electrical components using linear frequency-domain simulators. The measure, model and simulate triumvirate has...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and provider of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC), announced the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the global 2.4 GHz ISM band. The transceiver supports the IEEE802.15.4 standard and may be used...

EADS Defence & Security has joined forces with State Security Networks Ltd., operator of the Finnish VIRVE network, to start testing the TETRA Enhanced Data Service (TEDS) as of May 2010. The work will be conducted on a test network with the same characteristics as the live VIRVE authority...

NEC Corp. (NEC) and NEC Electronics Corp. (NECEL) have successfully developed the Low-Power Low-Noise All-Digital Phase Lock Loop (ADPLL) LSI. The newly developed LSI is suitable for midget wireless equipment yielding a long operation lifetime for small-sized batteries. It also features low-phase noise, which is vital to many modern...

Geensoft , a new, independent company focusing on the provision of software design tools and associated professional services for embedded systems development, has been created by a management buy-out of the former embedded design tools business of Geensys. The MBO creating Geensoft has been led by former Geensys executives...

The programme for the next conference of the ARMMS RF & Microwave Society , to be held on 19 and 20 April at Milton Hill House, Oxfordshire, UK, has been announced. The ARMMS RF & Microwave Society is an independent professional society comprised of individuals with an interest in...

Avago Technologies has announced two new economical, easy to use general-purpose InGaP Hetero-Junction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) MMIC gain block amplifiers for use in a variety of wireless applications. The AVT-51663/53663 gain blocks, which operate within the DC to 6000 MHz frequency band, can be used as either a broadband...

Valpey Fisher Corp. , a leader in low noise timing solutions, announced the creation of its Microwaves Products Group. The group will focus on the design, manufacture and marketing of high performance RF/microwave components and integrated modules for a broad range of end markets, including microwave point to point,...