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Microwave & RF Components and Subsystems This Web site features the Weinschel division’s components and subsystems. It is updated often and offers a complete library of downloaded data sheets for a wide variety of RF and microwave components and subsystems. New items include on-line quote forms, keyword search, expanded...

Power Amplifier for CDMA Handsets This RF power amplifier (RMPA0965) is optimized for CDMA2000-1X applications in the 824 to 849 frequency band. It has single positive-supply operation, low power and shutdown modes, and provides 40% CDMA mode efficiency at 28 dBm average power output. Its high/low power modes optimize...

Industry News Agilent Technologies , Boeblingen, Germany, announced its 100th design win for its film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) duplexer and full band transmit filter. These devices are designed into nine of the 10 code division multiple access (CDMA) phone manufacturers’ handsets for the US market. The Agilent ACMD-7401...

LTCC Design Guide This design guide is for advanced electronic packages produced with co-fire multi-layer ceramic technology (LTCC). The guide includes a basic process overview and ceramic specifications for HTCC and AlN to assist in materials selection. Structural and metallization interconnect capabilities are shown with appropriate tolerances. AdTech Ceramics...

The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $153 M contract to continue full rate production of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Guidance Replacement Program (GRP). This program is a key modernization effort that will upgrade the guidance-system electronics in the Minuteman III ICBM to extend the...

Lockheed Martin has received a US Air Force contract totaling more than $112 M for continued production of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), the world’s first stealthy cruise missile. The first lot of full rate production, Lot 4, is for 288 missiles. Lockheed Martin was approved for Milestone...

Lockheed Martin has been invited to compete for the next phase of the Integrated Wireless Network (IWN). IWN will provide secure, interoperable nationwide wireless communications for federal agents and officers and allow multi-agency operations between the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury. The final contract is potentially worth...

Scandinavian train operator, SJ, has awarded Icomera the €11 million contract to equip its fleet with the company’s Wireless Onboard Internet Service. Under the terms of the contract Icomera will deliver its Intercity Edition for the current X2000 train type and Commuter Edition for the new X40 fleet. Significantly...

Three factors will conspire to put progress in RFID implementation on ice for the immediate future, according to ABI Research. Erik Michielsen, director of RFID and Ubiquitous Wireless at the technology analyst firm, says that “by themselves, none of the three situations is a deal-breaker, but their cumulative effect...

The ZigBee standard has arrived. Just as ABI Research forecast earlier this year, the ZigBee standard was ratified recently. ABI Research has based its ZigBee shipments and ASP forecasts on the assumption that the ZigBee ratification would take place at the end of 2004. The recent ratification by the...