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Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced an industry first integrated RMS power detector that is capable of simultaneously measuring the instantaneous (RF envelope) power and the true RMS power of any input RF input signal from 100 MHz...

Baseband digital predistortion (DPD) is an attractive method to improve the performance of high power amplifiers (PA). The feedback loop plays a very important role in the baseband DPD system. Its aim is to obtain the sampled signals on which the model of the PA is based and the...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that it has received a follow-on contract award of approximately $7.1 M to produce complex integrated microwave assemblies used in the upgrade of an existing electronic attack aircraft program. The award is from a major US defense contractor, and production will be at Herley New...

CAP Wireless Inc. (CAP), a supplier of high-performance microwave and RF amplifiers and amplifier-based subsystems, announced the CHPA0618-1 ultra-broadband power amplifier for broadband military platforms within the defense electronics and homeland security industries. The unit incorporates gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology into CAP’s patented Spatium™...

Trilithic ’s RF and Microwave Components division has released a new low cost series of 2 W fixed attenuators. The XFP-6 series features a frequency range of DC to 6 GHz, with attenuation values from 1 to 40 dB. VSWR is excellent and specified at 1.25, and the attenuation...

L-3 Electron Technologies Inc. (L-3 ETI) announced the introduction of its model 8923H dual-band 300 W 30 GHz/175 W 45 GHz Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier. Designed for military SATCOM uplink applications, the new TWT has a remarkably small footprint and weighs less than four pounds. “The model 8923H...

Crystek 's CVCO55FL-0200-0239 voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) operates from 200 to 239 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 to 4.5 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -123 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +9.0 dBm. The model CVCO55FL-0200-0239...

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New York - The escalating build-outs of 3.5G and 4G mobile networks will continue to propel the point-to-point microwave industry as radio shipments with higher capacities will become the norm, a new report from Visant Strategies finds. "Growth in PTP shipments is being driven by deployment and preparation for...

The Antenna Applications Symposium and its predecessor, the Air Force Antenna R&D Symposium, have for fifty years provided a unique forum for exchange of ideas and information about the practical aspects of antenna design, development, and use in systems. The Antenna Applications Symposium emphasizes antenna design and application to...