RF & Microwave Industry News

Tektronix Announces UWB Test Cookbook

Tektronix Inc. , a worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced it has created the world’s first Methods of Implementation (MOI) for the new Ultra-wideband (UWB) WiMedia PHY Test Specification Version 1.2 and released a new version of UWB Analysis software for DSA/DPO70000 series oscilloscopes that provides...
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Plextek Establishes Specialist Defence Group

Plextek , the Cambridge, UK-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has formed a specialist Defence Group focussed specifically on defence contracts and liaison with the UK MoD. The Defence Group has been set up as part of a strategic initiative to help raise the company’s visibility in the supply...
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SELEX GALILEO Opens EWOS Facility in UK

SELEX GALILEO has opened its new Electronic Warfare Operational Support (EWOS) facility in Lincoln, UK, dedicated to the delivery of EWOS capability and products. Located at Alpha Court, on the western outskirts of Lincoln, the 1100 m 2 facility, which includes a 200 m 2 Radio Frequency screened laboratory,...
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NEC Laboratories Europe Celebrates 10th Anniversary

NEC Laboratories Europe , the European R&D centre for network technologies, was established as Network Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany, in April 1998 and celebrated the landmark by holding a 10th Anniversary Symposium for around 50 invited representatives in various fields from universities and companies in Europe. NEC Laboratories Europe...
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Globacom Signs Nigerian Expansion Contract

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a contract with Globacom , Nigeria’s second largest national operator, to extend the network capacity and performance of its mobile and fixed networks. The project, which is part of the operator’s IP network transformation, will enable it to extend the delivery of advanced mobile and triple...
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DMU Awarded Satellite Navigation Research

A pioneering navigation device which can tune into different satellite networks around the world is being developed by researchers at De Montfort University (DMU) Leicester, UK, in partnership with Nottingham Scientific Ltd. (NSL). NSL specializes in the commercial exploitation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) technology. Satellite navigation receivers...
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An Improved BSIM4 Model for 0.13 μm RF CMOS Using a Simple Lossy Substrate Extraction Method

An improved BSIM4 large-signal model for a 0.13 μm RF CMOS transistor with lossy substrate description is presented in this article. To accurately accomplish the CMOS model for microwave circuit designs, the RLC networks representing the parasitic...
In order to improve the simulation accuracy of microwave circuit designs, an accurate active device model plays an important role for circuit simulations. According to previous studies, the BSIM models can precisely predict the characteristics of deep sub-micron MOSFETs at operation frequencies below 1 GHz for digital and analog...
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Software-defined Radio Transmitters for Advanced Wireless and Satellite Communications Systems

This article reviews and discusses the critical issues in designing software-defined radio (SDR)-based transmitters for wireless and satellite applications. Digital predistortion-based linearization techniques as an enabling technology for SDR transmit...
The wireless and satellite communications communities have always been looking for power efficient radios. However, the power efficiency is greatly dominated by the efficiency of the RF power amplifier (PA) in the transmitting path. Recently, most of the communication systems being deployed or to be deployed in the near...
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