Industry News

STMicroelectronics Centers on Innovation

STMicroelectronics has expanded its Innovation and Systems Integration Center (CIIS), which is based in Grenoble, Switzerland. The center, dedicated to system-on-chip solutions, is located in the heart of the Polygone Scientifique, the Grenoble scientific cluster, and will offer two new facilities covering a total area of 13,000 m 2...
Read More

Antenova Teams Up to Expand RF Design

Antenova Ltd. has acquired the RF design engineering team from a US-based developer of advanced RF power amplifiers for mobile handsets. The team will be housed in a new Design and Support Center in the Chicago area in the first quarter of 2007 and will complement the company’s North...
Read More

M/A-COM Joins MoCA®

M/A-COM , a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a provider of wireless radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components, announced that the company has joined the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA ® ), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation to develop and promote specifications for the transport of digital...
Read More

Agilent Joins Forces with German Military

Agilent Technologies has won a European-wide bid to supply the German Federal Armed Forces with more than 1,500 digital storage oscilloscopes (DSO). The 6000 series oscilloscopes will be delivered by the end of the year and will be used by engineers and technicians to test electrical equipment at the...
Read More

Editorial Index

ANTENNAS Abri, M., N. Boukli-Hacene and F.T. Bendimerad “Design of a Dual-band Ring Printed Antenna Array,” No. 5, p. 228. Chair, R., A.A. Kishk, K.F. Lee and D. Kajfez “Performance Comparisons Between Dielectric Resonator Antennas and Printed Microstrip Patch Antennas at X-band,” No. 1, p. 90. Chen, Wen-Shan “A...
Read More

Agilent Completes Acquisition of PXIT Inc.

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets of PXIT Inc. , a privately held company that provides signal integrity testing systems for broadband optical transceiver manufacturers. Financial details were not disclosed. All of PXIT's Massachusetts-based employees have joined Agilent. The combined technology and capabilities...
Read More

New Literature

Power Products Brochure This 36-page brochure features the company’s line of microwave PIN diodes and modules for small signal/high speed switching, large signal switching/attenuators, limiters and Schottky mixers in a variety of surface-mount and high-rel packages, plus its new line of RF power semiconductors for avionics, radar, microwave, broadband,...
Read More

The Book End

Planar Microwave Engineering: A Practical Guide to Theory, Measurements and Circuits Thomas H. Lee Cambridge University Press • 880 pages; $80, £45 ISBN: 0-521-83526-7 This book is a response to the students, hobbyists and practicing engineers who have complained about the lack of a modern reference that balances theory...
Read More

2007 IEEE MTT-S RWS Exhibitor Showcase

Advanced Test Equipment 325 San Diego, CA O. Isarevich, M. Jahn Advanced Test Equipment Rentals offers effective solutions on rentals, leases and sales of test and measurement equipment including network and spectrum analyzers, cellular test sets and more. Equipment available from Agilent, Anritsu, Aeroflex/IFR, Bird, Narda, Noise/Com, Rohde &smp;...
Read More