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Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced Advanced Design System (ADS) 2009 Update 1, the industry's first complete, front-to-back solution for monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and RF module design. The release integrates 3-D electromagnetic (EM) analysis, wireless standards-based design verification libraries, X-parameter simulation, and statistical design and yield optimization. Advanced...

Jazz Semiconductor® , a Tower Group company and a leader in Analog-intensive Mixed-signal (AIMS) foundry solutions, announced its ISO/TS 16949 certification, the highest international quality standard for the automotive industry. This represents a critical milestone in the company’s strategic roadmap and has paved the way for increased presence in...

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Gore) announced that Richardson Electronics Ltd. will now sell Gore’s high performance line of Test & Measurement Microwave/RF Cable Assemblies. “Richardson and Gore have built a strong relationship around Gore’s ePTFE and PTFE material technology bringing solutions for EMI grounding and shielding,” said Mark...

Amplifiers/Semiconductors Download the Puzzler (PDF) Across 4 The vector ratio of voltage to current, the reciprocal of admittance 9 Wideband gap III-V material used to produce broadband, high power amplifiers 11 Undesired changes in a waveform that result in spurious content of the signal 14 A device or impedance...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , received $4.4 M of orders for broadband, solid state, high-power RF microwave amplifier systems from an international OEM. The amplifier systems, which include the latest solid-state switching and transistor technology, and provide for very broad frequency...

The tally of wireless operators committed to deploying LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks and offering LTE-based services to their subscribers in 2010 has climbed to at least 12, according to a major new study from ABI Research . By the following year nearly 34 million users worldwide are forecast...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced four new Digital Variable Gain Amplifiers which are ideal for automotive, broadband, cellular/3G, WiMAX/4G, test & measurement equipment and military applications between 70 MHz and 4 GHz. The HMC707LP5E and HMC708LP5E are...

Empower 's BBM2E4AJP high-power super broadband amplifier module covers 20 to 1000 MHz at 52 dB of gain and 80 W output power. The module is very compact at less than 6.5 inches long and approximately one inch thick, and uses LDMOS devices that provide excellent linearity and high...

Complementing a line of compact Lab Brick Universal Serial Bus (USB) powered and controlled signal generators, Vaunix Technology Corp. has announced a family of Lab Brick Digital Attenuators with 63 dB of programmable attenuation through 6 GHz. The first two standard models are the LDA-102, with frequency coverage of...

Mobile communications operator T-Mobile International has chosen the Rohde & Schwarz group as the exclusive supplier of its standard drive test systems. The contract includes the delivery of R&S® ROMES software and associated mobile radio scanners to five European countries. T-Mobile International will use the drive test systems to...