Articles by MWJ Staff

Thales Alenia Space Italy and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. are forming a strategic partnership. The initial focus of the partnership is to combine the experience and capabilities of each company to offer new, highly-responsive and agile space radar solutions for a variety of customers. The joint business agreement...

Following approval from the Government of India’s Foreign Investment Promotions Board, Mahindra & Mahindra and BAE Systems will set up a Joint Venture in India focused on land systems for the Indian market. This approval is a key step in setting up the joint venture, and in accordance with...

NTT DOCOMO Inc. has successfully developed a trial large-scale-integration (LSI) chip that consumes less than 0.04 W of power yet supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal detection and decoding for downlink transmissions at 100 Mbps, the speed required for the forthcoming mobile system known as Super 3G, or LTE, approved...

2008 was a tough year for ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, reports In-Stat. There are now four fewer UWB chip makers than there were in the middle of 2008, the high-tech market research firm says. Focus Semiconductor declared bankruptcy; WiQuest shut its doors; Intel stopped its program; Artimi and Staccato Communications...

For the fourth consecutive year, ABI Research puts a different twist on the traditional December activity of surveying the year just past and speculating about what the new one will bring, with a white paper titled “What’s Isn’t Going to Happen in 2009.” The paper is available for free...

The economic downturn will slow growth and innovation in many areas but will create attractive investment opportunities in the communications and media sectors in the New Year, according to M/C Venture Partners, which released its annual list of the Top-10 communications and media industry trends to watch in 2009....

Industry News AWR , a leader in high-frequency design software, expanded its relationship with Rohde & Schwarz , a leading test equipment manufacturer, to provide expanded sales channels for AWR products such as Microwave Office® in China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. The expanded sales distribution partnership will boost AWR’s...

Software for Compliant Testing AR’s SW1006 software is a standalone program that combines conducted immunity test software, radiated susceptibility test software and pre-compliance conducted and radiated emissions test software into one user-friendly package suitable for corporate to professional test lab users. The software automatically performs both calibration and immunity...

New Waves: High Frequency Components, Boards and Systems Multi-position Switch The QK series of coaxial multi-position switches feature K type connectors that operate in a frequency range from DC to 40 GHz. Available actuator options include normally open and TTL circuitry with integrated indicator circuits. Terminated models are also...

Integrated Interconnect Technologies for 3D Nanoelectronic Systems Muhannad S. Bakir and James D. Meindl, Eds. Make way for solutions to the challenges in chip reliability, power delivery, I/O signaling and heat removal now blocking the way to ultimate performance 3D gigascale SoC. This cutting-edge book on off-chip technologies puts...