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Skyworks Solutions Inc. and Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. announced that the two companies have amended their previously announced merger agreement. Under the terms of the revised merger agreement, Skyworks will acquire all of the outstanding shares of AnalogicTech for $5.80 per share in cash through a tender offer that...

ORBIT Communication Systems Inc. , a provider of mission-critical connectivity solutions in a variety of markets, including satellite communications, tracking and telemetry, and communications management systems, is showcasing its Maritime VSAT Satellite Communications systems product line at Marintec China 2011. The maritime conference and exhibition at the Shanghai New...

Anritsu Co. introduces the MW8209A PIM Master, an innovative passive intermodulation (PIM) analyzer that covers the 900 MHz band to address the growing need to measure PIM in E-GSM networks, including UMTS Band VIII and LTE Band 8. Designed for use with Anritsu handheld analyzers, the MW8209A comes with...

Texas Instruments Inc. announced a sub-1 GHz radio frequency (RF) value line plug-in-board for TI’s MSP430™ microcontroller LaunchPad development kit. The new 430BOOST-CC110L RF BoosterPack includes ETSI-compliant and FCC-certified modules to help speed development time, reduce certification costs and eliminate barriers associated with the RF hardware design process. The...

Monthly Military Update: Expert Insight View in Browser | View on Mobile November 17, 2011 Solutions for Wideband Radar and SatCom Measurements This application discusses using wide-bandwidth oscilloscopes to directly measure and analyze X, Ku, and Ka-band radar and SatCom transmitter outputs up to 32 GHz -- helping to...

Juniper Research forecasts a rapid uptake of LTE mobile broadband technology in the next five years but with a very limited global reach. Subscriber levels will attain 428 million by 2016 but will only reach 6 percent of the global subscriber population. Most of this growth is expected to...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. , a supplier of high performance analog semiconductor solutions, announced that it has honored WIN Semiconductors Corp. with its Foundry Supplier of the Year Award for 2011. WIN Semiconductors provides M/A-COM Tech with GaAs MMIC foundry services across a broad range of HBT and pHEMT...

Objective Interface Systems Inc. (OIS) announced that Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) ported a complete APCO P25 waveform and Software Communications Architecture (SCA) radio system to a small form factor Android device in just one day with zero source code modifications using the ORBexpress communications software. This port by...

Micronetics Inc. announced that it has been awarded an initial production order valued at approximately $2.4 M from a leading precision antenna system manufacturer for the supply of high performance microwave subsystems. Each subsystem, which consists of a transceiver, on board computer, power supply, and a high power amplifier...

Linear Technology announces the LTC3103 and the LTC3104, 15 V, fixed frequency synchronous buck converters capable of delivering 300 mA of continuous current to output voltages from 0.6 to 13.8 V. The LTC3103 consumes just 1.8 µA of quiescent current, while the LTC3104 (which offers a 10 mA programmable...