Industry News

RF Industry Outlook Brightens

Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, released “RF Component Industry Review: January – March 2006,” noting that financial performance reported by RF component suppliers in Q1 improved. Demand for RF components in Q1 remained strong, supported by strength in the cell phone market. Fifty-three percent of the...
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Around The Circuit

Industry News Dr. Leo Young Dr. Leo Young died September 14, 2006, of complications from cancer. He was 80 years old. He was a pioneer in the microwave industry and served as president of both MTT-S and IEEE. He received his BS degree in physics and math in 1946...
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Power Amplifier Linearization Using an Indirect-learning-based Inverse TDNN Model

In this article, an effective digital predistortion procedure of data acquisition, analysis, modeling and linearization for high power amplifiers is presented, based on tapped delay neural networks (TDNN). Memory effects of high power RF amplifiers wer...
Current research studies are drawing more and more attention on the memory effects of high power amplifier linearization, especially for cellular base transceiver system applications. 1,2 Although many studies on power amplifier linearization have been conducted, linearization of strongly nonlinear systems with large memory, which exacerbates the performance of...
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Kulicke & Soffa Closes Purchase of Alphasem

Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. closed the previously announced purchase of Alphasem, a supplier of die bonder equipment, from Dover Technologies International Inc., a subsidiary of Dover Corp. The purchase price was $27.1 M in cash, after a working capital adjustment and subject to further post closing adjustments. "We...
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Keithley and Mesatronic Enter Agreement

Keithley Instruments Inc. , a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announced it has partnered with Mesatronic Group , Voiron, France, to develop advanced probe cards for semiconductor parametric testers used in RF and low current DC applications. William Merkel, marketing director for the Keithley Parametric Test Product...
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