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National Instruments announced the NI USRP-2920 and NI USRP-2921 instruments, offering a new educational platform that delivers a true hands-on learning experience with real-world signals to RF and communications university labs, which previously relied on computer-based simulation to augment theory. The new platform, consisting of NI universal software radio...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , booth 323, is releasing its newest GaN packaged transistor device, the T1G6001528-Q3, in conjunction with European Microwave Week in Manchester. The T1G6001528-Q3, a gallium nitride (GaN) packaged HEMT RF power transistor that delivers high output power and efficiency over a wide bandwidth: DC to 6...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions , a leading supplier of high performance analog semiconductor solutions for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, is showcasing a broad portfolio of new products for Networks, Aerospace and Defense, and Multi-Market applications. Product solutions on display in M/A-COM Tech’s Booth #422 include: • A complete chipset...

NuWaves Engineering , an international communications company, has expanded its NuPower™ series of power amplifiers with the introduction of the L- and S-Band PA. NuWaves’ NW-SSPA-15W-1.0-2.6 is a high performance solid-state power amplifier delivering 15 W across the frequency band of 1 to 2.6 GHz. The small form factor...

American Technical Ceramics , a leading manufacturer of microwave, millimeter-wave and RF passive components, announced the launch of its new website. ATC’s newly redesigned website features many valuable additions and enhancements in navigation, searching and e-commerce that afford easy access to all ATC product information. An all new online...

DuPont Microcircuit Materials , part of DuPont Electronics & Communications, is highlighting two key technical developments at the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society’s 44 th International Symposium on Microelectronics, Oct. 9 to 13, 2011, in Long Beach, CA. The company’s newest product development, DuPont™ GreenTape™ 9K5 low temperature co-fired...

AWR Corp. and Magus (Pty) Ltd. , developers of the Antenna Magus expert system for antenna synthesis, announced a joint marketing relationship focused on accelerating the pace of antenna design for wireless-enabled products. The first result of this relationship is AWR Connected™ for Antenna Magus, an interface between the...

The rapid growth of wireless communications, as well as space-borne systems, leads to the increasing demand of low power, high efficiency systems. High efficiency is the prime requirement for any space-qualified transmitter or wireless communication systems. Higher efficiency means greater output power with reduced power dissipation. Achieving higher efficiency...

Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors, (MIM caps) have played a vital role in the design of a wide variety of MMIC circuits, particularly where low loss/high-Q is a critical design requirement. Because of their ease of fabrication, they can be found in the design kits of both silicon and compound semiconductor...

In recent years, the 7 GHz of contiguous bandwidth have been opened for unlicensed use at millimeter-wave frequencies around 60 GHz (known as V-Band) in the US and Japan. High rate wireless communication technology operating at millimeter-wave frequencies has been an interesting topic with various applications and tremendous potentials....