Industry News

Abilis Acquires Two Product Lines from Freescale

Abilis Systems , a Kudelski Group company, and a pioneer RF semiconductor company, announces the acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor CMOS Modulators and Silicon Tuner product lines. The acquisition of these assets will allow Abilis to expand its broad portfolio of leading, silicon-based digital TV (DTV) and tuner solutions and...
Read More

AWR Adds Electromagnetics Track to AWR.TV

AWR , a leader in high frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced it has added a broad array of content related to electromagnetics (EM) to AWR.TV, its comprehensive multimedia Web resource for technical and product information. The site has also been enhanced to make it easier for viewers to...
Read More

Herley Awarded $16.6 M IDIQ Contract

Herley Industries Inc. announced that through a subsidiary, it has been awarded a $16.6 M firm-fixed-price, time and material, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for Radio Frequency (RF) Modules. As required, repair services and engineering and technical support services will also be performed. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China...
Read More

Analog Clocking ICs Replace Expensive, High Frequency VCOs

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, expanded its clock-product portfolio with the launch of the AD9552 oscillator frequency upconverter and the AD9547 clock synchronizer. Both products streamline system designs and reduce implementation complexity and cost while improving jitter performance. The AD9552 replaces...
Read More

Cobham Awarded $15 M for Advanced NextGen Radio

Cobham has been awarded US$14.8 M by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) program. Under this cost plus fixed fee contract, Cobham Sensor Systems, Lowell, MA, will design, develop and demonstrate low-cost wireless network nodes that support adaptation by means of...
Read More

Korea and Ericsson Target 4G-based Green Eco-system

Ericsson and the Republic of Korea have initiated a collaboration aiming to use mobile broadband and other communication technologies, such as machine to machine (m2m), to create a green eco-system. Korea, one of the world's most advanced ICT nations, and Ericsson, a leader in telecommunications, have identified mobile broadband...
Read More

Microwave IC Design Workshop at IEEE SoC Conference

Liam Devlin, Drector of RF integration at Plextek , the electronics and communications design consultancy based in Cambridge, UK, will be hosting a workshop at the 22 nd IEEE System on Chip Conference, 9 to 11 September, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The workshop, which takes place on the Thursday,...
Read More