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Microsemi Corp. , a manufacturer of high performance analog-mixed signal integrated circuits, high reliability semiconductors and RF subsystems, announced the successful completion of its tender offer, through its wholly owned subsidiary Artful Acquisition Corp., for all outstanding shares of Actel Corp. The tender offer expired at 12:00 midnight, New...

In 2015, shipments of fixed wireless terminals (FWT) and cellular routers will total nearly 13 million, according to the latest forecasts from ABI Research. The research includes market analysis for industrial terminals, business gateways, telephony adaptors—all relatively mature markets showing stable modest growth—and the newest market segment, mobile broadband...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has acquired certain assets of Signametrics , a manufacturer of PXI, VXI, PCI and USB digital multimeters (DMM), and modular switching products. These test and measurement products are commonly used in manufacturing production and automotive test systems. Signametrics, a privately held company, is a...

Industry News L-3 Communications announced that it acquired 3Di Technologies LLC . 3Di provides highly specialized end-to-end secure satellite communications utilized by forward-deployed United States special operations and in-theater personnel. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The business will be included in the Microwave Group within L-3’s...

Antennas for mobile TV are usually required to have a very wide frequency band. For example, ultra high frequency digital video broadcasting-handheld (UHF DVB-H) is designed to work in the frequency band from 470 to 862 MHz or a portion of it. This is a very wide bandwidth, which...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a technology for transmitting information spread over a large bandwidth that should be able to share spectrum with other users. This is the main reason why UWB has attracted much attention from the wireless community, both from standardization bodies and chip manufacturers. The UWB frequency range...

Base station applications for WiMAX require low noise amplifiers (LNA) with low noise figures, high linearity, compact size, and excellent input and output return loss. 1 A balanced amplifier topology is often the preferred choice in LNA applications for base station transceiver front-ends, because it presents several advantages over...

With the introduction of high-definition video signals operating at data rates up to 1.485 Gb/s for 1080i and 2.97 Gb/s for 1080p, a new generation of BNC connectors needs to perform at significantly higher frequency than standard BNCs in broadcast studio and transmission applications. To meet the broadcast industry’s...

Cavity filters and dielectric resonator (DR) filters are widely used in communication systems. However, the need for more efficient filters is even greater with the advent of new 4G networks overlaying the existing 3G infrastructure, particularly in areas of limited spectrum and base station resources. Requirements for high attenuation...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced that it has production released the RF3932, a 75 W, highly efficient gallium nitride (GaN) RF unmatched power transistor (UPT) that delivers superior performance versus competing GaAs and silicon power technologies. The release of the RF3932 follows the recent release of the 140...