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Microwave Journal Waveguide Newsletter View in Browser | View on Mobile November 15, 2011 Letter From the Publisher   The New Media Kits are Here! The New Media Kits are Here! Carl Sheffres, Publisher, Microwave Journal Like Steve Martin in " The Jerk " when the new phone books...

Modelithics Inc. has released the latest version of its linear and nonlinear system level model libraries for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave device and components. The Modelithics COMPLETE Library version 8.0 for AWR’s Microwave Office™ software introduces 46 new Global Models for passive RLCs, and 18 new nonlinear models for...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the industry’s first secure digital ultra-high speed card-compliance test software. The new SD UHS-II bus interface technology increases secure digital performance with data rates up to 1.56 Gb/sec in consumer electronics applications. The compliance test package helps designers accelerate the development of SD UHS-II card-based...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced it has commenced volume production of multiple 3G/4G power amplifiers (PA), in support of two leading smartphone families. The two most recent smartphones supported by RFMD feature RFMD's PowerSmart™ power platform and RFMD's RF724x family of ultra-high efficiency power amplifiers. The first smartphone,...

A new report by Mobile Experts predicts strong purchases of filter and tower-mounted amplifier products by North American mobile operators over the next five years. The overall market total will reach $260 M during 2011, with a step in future growth coming from rising LTE deployment. The overall market...

In a recent market study, researchers estimated that by the year 2015, manufacturers will be shipping more than a billion IEEE 802.11ac radios annually. The figure is impressive, especially because 802.11ac does not yet exist as a public standard. So one may be wondering, "What is this 802.11ac specification...

The US Army's Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate has awarded a contract to SRC Inc., formerly Syracuse Research Corp., for the development of an Omni-Directional Weapon Location (OWL) radar system. The contract includes a 32-month award valued at approximately $9 M. Under the terms of this contract, SRC will...

Northrop Grumman Corp. will build and deliver the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) for the Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) under a contract with NASA. JPSS is a system of polar-orbiting satellites to be developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for weather forecasting, storm...

Raytheon Co. has completed the shipboard installation of the Cobra Judy Replacement program's X- and S-Band antennas onto the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25). These massive active phased-array antennas, each weighing more than 500,000 pounds, were installed onto the ship at Kiewit Offshore Services (KOS), Corpus Christi, TX....

A research team from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, has developed two new techniques of cancer diagnosis and treatment with the aid of microwaves. One method is an alternative to mammography that uses X-rays to detect breast cancer. The other method aims to treat tumours in the head...