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Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. announced that it has acquired privately held US-based venture company SyChip Inc. , a provider of radio frequency chip scale modules (CSM). Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is a passive components supplier. Murata agreed to pay approximately $140 M as the total consideration for outstanding shares,...

EPCOS , a manufacturer of passive electronic components, closed the deal that transfers its tantalum capacitor business to US American capacitor manufacturer KEMET effective April 13, 2006. Now that all relevant regulatory authorities have approved the transaction the closing could be finalized. The contract of sale between EPCOS and...

QinetiQ has been awarded a £2.5 M, 12 month UK MoD contract to deliver an integrated and modular, mobile command and control system. The system is based on field proven COTS components all integrated into a number of commercial vehicles; to form distinct, totally secure IT communications nodes. With...

SUSS MicroTec has announced that Microsystems Plaza (MiPlaza), a MEMS and nanotechnology research and development facility and service provider at the HighTech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has selected the company’s wafer bonding equipment for the manufacture of MEMS and biomedical devices. The two systems, consisting of a BA8...

Richardson Electronics announced a global distribution partnership with TeraVicta Technologies , Austin, TX, to distribute its complete line of MEMS-based RF switching solutions. MEMS switches provide the low insertion losses, high isolation and high linearity of electromechanical relays, with the size, power consumption and production advantages of high volume,...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced that its Defense and Space Systems division has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed US prime contractor to build electronics for a US Department of Defense satellite program. The contract award calls for EMS to build an undisclosed quantity of units that will find...

Andrew Corp. has acquired Precision Antennas Ltd. , a Stratford, England-based provider of antennas for terrestrial and satellite communications systems. Under the agreement, Andrew paid approximately $26 M to acquire the subsidiary of UK-based Cobham plc. Precision Antennas designs and produces microwave antennas for use in carrying point-to-point radio...

M/A-COM , a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a provider of wireless radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components, announced the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) assembly and testing service targeted towards commercial and defense applications and manufacturers. Based in the company's Lowell, MA facility, M/A-COM's reduced time-to-market...

High Power RF Amplifier The model SSPA 0.020-0.520-100 is a high power, super broadband, RF amplifier that op-erates from 20 to 520 MHz. This power amplifier is ideal for broadband military platforms as well as commercial applications because it is robust and offers high power over a multi-octave bandwidth....

Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques: Second Edition George D. Vendelin, Anthony Pavio and Ulrich L. Rohde Wiley-Interscience • 1078 pages; $148 ISBN: 0-471-41479-4 Approximately 15 years have passed since the first edition of this book. While the basic principles have not changed, today’s technology provides huge...