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Microwave Vision announced the upcoming installation in Asia of a StarLine system, a hybrid planar Near-Field (NF) scanner with a 3 m vertical linear probe array. Hybrid systems are composed of SATIMO 's high-performance probe arrays paired with ORBIT/FR ’s high-precision mechanical positioners. The StarLine product line combines mechanical...

In response to market needs, HUBER+ SUHNER has developed a new series of RF board-to-board connectors that can cope with significantly greater axial misalignment. The new series of connectors addresses the fact that continuing miniaturization and tight space constraints have resulted in the need for more board-to-board connections. Owing...

Ansoft (part of the Ansys Inc. product portfolio) has always targeted the most challenging engineering problems in both the RF/microwave and signal integrity design space with the combination of its industry-leading 3D EM HFSS and circuit/system/planar EM Design environmentóAnsoft Designer. HFSS, the general-purpose 3D EM simulator, solves components with...

Express Distribution Products Catalog This edition is packed full of Aeroflex/Weinschel products that can be shipped overnight via Argosy Component Sales. Express products include fixed attenuators (high power also), adapters, power splitter/dividers, terminations and DC blocks. This catalog also includes programmable attenuators; connector systems (Planar Crown® and Planar Blindmate®);...

Design Software Agilent recently announced tools for circuit-level modeling through system verification for general RF/uW, 4G Comms and aero/defense applications including SystemVue 2010.01 and Genesys 2010.05. These software platforms add X-parameter support and move X-parameters beyond RF into system-level design. The nonlinear model support provides convenient and reliable design...

In recent years the protection of communication services operating in the same adjacent channels has become more and more challenging. Communication systems need to be protected from natural and man-made interference. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) can be radiated or conducted, intentional or unintentional. Understanding physical characteristics of wave propagation is...

Industry News M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc ., a supplier of semiconductors, components and subassemblies for use in RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, and Mimix Broadband Inc . jointly announced that their respective corporate parents have signed a definitive merger agreement that will add Mimix and its subsidiaries to the...

Figure 1 MTT-S IMS attendee totals (pre-liminary numbers for 2010). This year's MTT-S IMS seemed to be a turning point for the industry as the business atmosphere seemed very positive and the show floor busier than the past few years. Going back to Hawaii in 2007, where the total...

The size of the antenna for a given application does not depend purely on the technology, but on the laws of physics where the antenna size with respect to the wavelength has the predominant influence on the radiation characteristics. With modern day communication devices becoming smaller and lighter, demand...

The idea of the "Software-Defined Radio" (SDR) has been circulating in industry and academia for almost 20 years, the term having been coined by Joe Mitola in a 1992 paper. 1 Since that time, many commercial and defense-oriented radio SDR products have been developed and released, most using basic...