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Industry News Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd . announced that it has acquired privately held US-based venture company SyChip Inc ., a leader in radio frequency chip scale modules (CSM). Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is an innovator in electronics and a global supplier of passive components. Murata agreed to pay...
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Rosenberger Acquires Assets of Agilent

Rosenberger of North America LLC and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement for Rosenberger to purchase assets and to license technology used by Agilent at its Santa Rosa, CA cable assembly shop. Upon completion of the sale, Agilent will obtain these products and services from...
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Z-Communications Appoints President

Z-Communications Inc. , a leader in VCO and PLL technology since 1987, announced the appointment of Mahadevan Sridharan (Sri) as its president. Sri was previously vice president of engineering and marketing of Z-Communications. He holds a PhD degree in microwave circuit design and brings with him a wealth of...
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Fairchild Opens Design Center in South America

Fairchild Semiconductor has expanded its Global Power Resource™ design centers to nine worldwide with the addition of a facility in São Paulo, Brazil. This new design center responds to the burgeoning high technology markets in South America. Fairchild is focusing on the South American region, projected by WSTS to...
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Ask Harlan, June 7, 2006

Harlan Howe has 34 years experience as a microwave design engineer and fifteen as publisher and editor of Microwave Journal ® , and is an IEEE Fellow and past president of MTT-S. He's here to answer your questions on RF and Microwave engineering.
Published June 7, 2006 From: Devendra Chitguppa, BEL Bangalore What is the relation between CW (unmodulated carrier power) and modulated carrier power in the case of BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 32QAM, 64QAM, 128QAM and 256QAM? Dear Devendra, The theoretical modulation losses for various schemes are a function not only of...
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Ask Harlan: Question of the Month - June 2006

Published June 6, 2006 In an effort to better combine the editorial content of our magazine with our newly developed and retooled on-line presence, we have decided to expand Harlan's RF and microwave engineering advice into a monthly feature that appears in Microwave Journal. Harlan has selected one question...
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Question of the Month Answers, May 2006

Published June 6, 2006 In an effort to better combine the editorial content of our magazine with our newly developed and retooled on-line presence, we have decided to expand Harlan's RF and microwave engineering advice into a monthly feature that appears in Microwave Journal. Harlan has selected one question...
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