Industry News

Pulse Electronics introduces power splitters for PIMinator line of low PIM in-building DAS antennas

Pulse Electronics Corp., a leading provider of electronic components, introduces a new line of power splitters for its PIMinator low passive intermodulation (PIM) indoor distributed antenna system (iDAS) family. When there are multiple antennas in a building, the signals need to be split between the antennas. Pulse's power splitters are designed to work with its PIMinator line of antennas to ensure a PIM spec of -155 dBc at 2x20 W. 


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Anritsu adds TETRA analysis and coverage mapping to LMR Master

Test & Measurement

Anritsu Co. introduces TETRA analyzer and TETRA coverage mapping options to its industry-leading LMR Master™ S412E handheld analyzer. Combining the LMR Master’s best-in-class performance and compact durable design with the new TETRA measuring and analysis tools makes the handheld analyzer the most comprehensive test solution for deploying, installing, and maintaining public safety, transportation, utility and critical communication networks.


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TI increases ZigBee, 6LoWPAN and BLE range by up to 7x

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the SimpleLink™ CC2592 range extender that provides up to a 7x improvement in range when paired with TI’s 2.4 GHz low power RF solutions for ZigBee®, 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN and Bluetooth® low energy networks. The first launched pairing is the CC2592 with the SimpleLink ZigBee CC2538 wireless microcontroller (MCU) to speed time to market of ZigBee-enabled equipment.


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Two Microwave Detectors

Schottky Detectors BZD AtlanTecRF ePR

AtlanTecRF has two models of Zero Bias Schottky Detectors with high sensitivity and a wide operating temperature range. The first two frequency ranges offered are 10 MHz to 18 GHz and 2.0 to 8.0 GHz, both with sensitivity of 500 mV/mW and TSS of -50 dBm. Flatness over the 10 MHz to 18 GHz frequency band is +/-1.25 dB max and VSWR for each unit is 2.0:1.


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Combined capacitor companies make debut

With a combined history exceeding 175 years, Dielectric Laboratories (DLI), Novacap, Syfer Technology and Voltronics have come together into a single organisation, Knowles Capacitors. This new entity is a division of Knowles Corp. of USA, an independent publicly traded company. A result of the merging of some of the world’s leading speciality capacitor manufacturers, Knowles Capacitors becomes one team of great people sharing a common vision.


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