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HRL Laboratories LLC will be a partner in Stanford University’s Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC), established in 2009 with a $20 M, five-year grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The CNEEC mission is to research sustainable energy technologies through nanostructuring and material science....

BridgeWave Communications , a supplier of gigabit wireless solutions for 4G network backhaul, and Provigent , a provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced a strategic partnership enabling BridgeWave to extend its market leading millimeter-wave solutions to the edge of 4G networks. Provigent will...

December 2010 Aeroflex Introduces New SGA By Aeroflex Aeroflex has just introduced a new range of general purpose portable benchtop RF instruments at an attractive price. The first products include two SGAs covering the 100 KHz to 3 and 6 GHz range. These signal generators are compact and lightweight...

Teledyne Technologies Inc. and Intelek plc jointly announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Teledyne for the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Intelek (the “Offer”). Under the terms of the Offer, Intelek’s ordinary...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Orlando, FL-based subsidiary, Comtech Systems Inc., received an order for $11 M from an international prime contractor for transportable troposcatter systems to be used by a middle eastern government. This is the first material troposcatter equipment contract with this foreign government. The order...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced a cost-effective complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) front-end module (FEM) for general packet radio service (GPRS) handsets. Skyworks’ newest device, the SKY77555, offers handset OEMs industry-leading architectures...

Agilent Technologies Inc. expanded its digital communications analyzer (DCA) portfolio with the introduction of the 86100D DCA-X wide-bandwidth oscilloscope. The DCA-X provides engineers with the tools needed to characterize their high-speed digital designs easily and accurately. The DCA-X mainframe platform will allow engineers to make next-generation measurements that include...

Tektronix Inc. and Fluke Corp. announced that they have donated $100,000 to DeVry University for a five-year scholarship program. In the program, $20,000 will be awarded each year in $1,000 scholarships to 20 students each in the name of Tektronix and Fluke. "We are very pleased to be able...

AWR® Corp. , a leader in high frequency EDA, announced AWR Connected™ for Cadence® Allegro®, which enables PCB and RF co-design, simplifying the design process for high performance printed circuit board (PCB) design and significantly shortening cycle times. AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro is an interface between Cadence’s Allegro...

Short range wireless ICs, including Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi have been widely adopted in computing, communication and consumer products in recent years. "The market for short range wireless ICs is booming in 2010," says ABI Research analyst Celia Bo. "Total shipments will increase approximately 18 percent compared...