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Coilcraft’s new RFC family of leaded power inductors offer a low-cost, high-efficiency option for power supply applications. They are offered in three performance levels: the RFC0807 Series, the RFC0810 Series and the RFC1010 Series.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced new capabilities for the EXM wireless test set.The capabilities were added to address the latest technology evolutions in wireless communications with support for WLAN 802.11p, 802.11ah, 802.11ac Wave 2 Measurements, and Bluetooth® 4.2. The EXM now can make the measurements required to efficiently manufacture today’s and tomorrow’s Internet-of-Things wireless devices.

CRFS, the world’s leading provider of distributed RF spectrum Intelligence systems, is pleased to announce a new distributor agreement with Dublin-based Acustek Ltd.

Dow-Key® Microwave Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer of electromechanical switches, announced it will showcase its 411HQ, 461H and 511H series of switches at the SATELLITE 2015 Exhibition, booth 7112, in Washington DC on March 17-19 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Cobham Wireless' TM500 network tester family is helping mobile operators to accelerate the deployment of high capacity networks. Already supporting key LTE-A features such as carrier aggregation of two and three component carriers, TDD/FDD carrier aggregation and eICIC, the TM500 now supports coordinated multipoint transmission/reception (CoMP), a major feature of 3GPP LTE-A Release 11.

Mercury Systems Inc., a leading high-tech commercial provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems powering today’s critical defense and intelligence applications, announced it has opened the second of four planned, world-class Mercury Innovation Centers – this one located at its corporate headquarters in Chelmsford, Mass.

Avago Technologies Ltd. and Emulex Corp. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Avago will acquire Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $606 million, or $609 million net of cash and debt acquired.

Linear Technology introduces the LTC5564H, a high temperature grade RF Schottky peak power detector that operates from 600 MHz to 15 GHz, and has ultrafast detection response time of 7ns from a pulsed RF signal. The device has an on-chip fast latchable comparator with a total detection and propagation delay of 9 ns.

Altium Ltd., a global leader in electronic design automation, native 3D PCB design systems (Altium Designer®, CircuitStudio®, PCBWorks®, CircuitMaker®), ECAD design data management (Altium Vault®) and embedded software development toolkits (TASKING®), has announced the next update to its flagship PCB design tool, Altium Designer. Altium Designer 15.1 will introduce several new features for improved design productivity, documentation outputs and high-speed design efficiency.

Exelis has received orders valued at $7.6 million from ADS, Inc. on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense through the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Tailored Logistics Support (TLS) program to provide mission command on-the-move systems. The systems will be used for undisclosed worldwide deployments. Called Global Network on the Move-Active Distribution, or GNOMAD, the system provides a broadband, satellite communication (SATCOM) on-the-move (SOTM) networked command and control connectivity.