Articles by MWJ Staff

Continued strong growth in M2M (machine-to-machine) communications markets will see about 95 million cellular M2M modules shipping in 2013, according to ABI Research. Of shipments to the three main segments— telematics, telemetry and wireless local loop—about 34 million devices are expected to be for telematics and 39 million for...

Industry News In Strategy Analytics’ annual ranking of the world’s top GaAs device manufacturers, RFMD, Skyworks and TriQuint remained at the helm of the Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) industry in 2007, driving annual growth of 17 percent year-on-year. Overall, the GaAs device market was worth $3.6 B in 2007 with...

Test Solutions Aeroflex.com has been completely redesigned to be more user-friendly and easily accessible. The home page has been cleanly divided with an overview of Aeroflex corporate at the top, followed by entry points for either the Test Solutions or Microelectronic Solutions Groups, highlighting a featured product from each....

New Waves: Industrial, Scientific and Medical Applications Solid-state Amplifiers AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation’s new solid-state amplifier family covers the 8 to 20 GHz frequency range. Model 5S8G20A offers 5 W of power and model 20S8G20A provides 20 W. Both models are perfect for EMC and wireless testing. Like the other...

MIMO Poster This poster is designed to enrich engineers’ understanding of Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO), an enabling technology for communication standards that is used with WiMAX™, LTE and WLAN. This free full-color poster, “Ten Things You Should Know about MIMO,” presents MIMO operation and test methodologies, using specific...

RFID Design Principles Harvey Lehpamer This cutting-edge book serves as a comprehensive introduction to RFID, offering you a detailed understanding of design essentials and applications, and providing a thorough overview of management issues. By comparing RFID with WLAN and Bluetooth, this practical resource shows you how RFID technology can...

Fueled both by consumer demand for entertainment and communication as well as governmental regulatory and economic incentives, companies at all levels of the broadband services and infrastructure value chain are developing new technologies and enabling new services that will continue to push the US broadband market forward over the...

Free MIMO Poster This full-color poster from Agilent, “Ten Things You Should Know about MIMO,” presents MIMO operation and test methodologies, using specific examples to high-light the impact on the radio system or associated test. Visit www.agilent.com/find/mimo-forward to order a copy. Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA (800) 829-4444,...

The US Army awarded Raytheon Co. and Boeing a $125 M contract for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) program. The contract funds a 27- month technology development program to develop and fire three prototype missiles with fully integrated tri-mode seekers. “There is an urgent warfighter need to field this...

Lockheed Martin announced the successful delivery of a space communications system that will bring more accurate and timely decision-making information to the US Air Force Space Commanders. This upgrade to the Combatant Commanders Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S) communications processing system enhances space message delivery reliability to and...