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Microwave and millimeter-wave high-power vacuum electron devices (VED) represent a modern technological continuation of one of the original and basic building blocks of RF electronics technology. Based on original vacuum tube (valve) principles that date from the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, these present-day incarnations couple modern...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Inphi Corp. has selected Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS) software for the design of its commercially available DDR3 memory interface chip. “We have had many experiences where a traditional SPICE tool was used in the distributed-circuit arena and produced nonphysical results — ones that...

Technicians in the cellular, PCS, GPS and digital communications fields are finding more requirements for 7-16 DIN adapters. For cellular communications, the 7-16 DIN offers technical advantages over the N or SMA connector interfaces. Capable of carrying high power at high frequencies, RF Connectors' 7-16 DINs are larger, more...

Holzworth Instrumentation announced the release of new component products at IMS 2008. The company is a global provider of high performance, ultra low phase noise RF synthesizers. The addition of low phase noise components to the product line provides engineers with components that are 100 percent tested for extremely...

Jackson Labs Technologies Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge test & measurement equipment, announced the availability of its breakthrough product FireFly-II. FireFly-II is an extremely small COTS Global Positioning System Disciplined Oscillator (GPSDO) that has been ruggedized to meet military requirements, in particular the DOD new and...

Tyco Electronics M/A-COM announced a new RoHS compliant 2.4 to 2.5 GHz Linear Power Amplifier for 802.11b/g MIMO WLAN applications that require high gain, high efficiency and small size all at a low cost. The MAAP-008516 is a three-stage power amplifier designed specifically for linear 802.11b/g applications and is...

NMDG featured a large signal network analyser (LSNA), an instrument and method for HF component characterisation. Its unique capability is the accurate measurement of the voltage and current waveforms at the ports of any component under realistic high-frequency stimuli, going from simple to complex signals, even in non-50 Ohm...

Talley Communications Corp. , a distributor of wireless communications infrastructure and mobile products, announced the opening of a new warehouse in New Braunfels, TX. This facility follows Talley’s Dallas facility, which opened in early March. The focus of this location is to service the wireless contractors and carriers in...

In response to the ever-increasing cost associated with developing new process nodes, Cascade Microtech announced a new initiative to develop integrated measurement systems for on-wafer semiconductor device characterization and process development. This innovative approach results in increased performance and accuracy as well as better, faster service and support, and...

Microphase Corp. announced a high pass filter model HMBC-150HJ with a passband from 0.5 to 18 GHz. The Microphase highpass filter is a breakthrough in filter technology. This miniature device discriminates a desired band of frequencies from all unwanted RF signals below a specified bandpass. The HMBC filter has...