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Short on RF Engineers? Consider H1B This column advocates for considering non-US professionals to fill in the steadily growing shortage of RF engineers. In addition to presenting the practical and fiscal advantages, this article also highlights the contribution of “imported” engineering talent to securing future domestic jobs. Unlike the...

It all started with the idea of revolutionizing time measurement in motor racing, using a portable lap-timing system. After two years of research, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Heuermann and his colleague Dipl.-Ing. Kai Hanisch successfully tested their microwave transponder-based laptiming system, MicroLap. Unlike conventional systems, Microlap allows for accurate chronometry...

It is likely that femtocells and picocells will form an integrated part of the initial rollouts of Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, say analysts at ABI Research. These cellular mini-base stations, which offer improved wireless coverage indoors, have been generating considerable interest in mobile wireless markets, and according to...

The 5 th European Radar Conference (EuRAD) will be held from 30 to 31 October 2008 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as part of European Microwave Week. The 5 th European Radar Conference is the major European forum to present the current status and future trends in the field of...

ProVision Communications , a wireless video and RF network planning company, has announced the appointment of former Lucent EMEA chief executive David Rogers as its new chairman. The appointment comes at a strategic time for Bristol, UK-based ProVision as it is rapidly developing its business to take advantage of...

Ericsson leads the world’s mobile infrastructure market, but it faces stiff competition from Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent as well as from some Asian vendors, especially a buoyant Huawei . “As of 1Q 2008, Huawei owned almost 8 percent of the world’s cellular infrastructure market, compared to Ericsson at...

RMI Corp. , a provider of high-performance processors for communication and media, has increased its partner alliance members to include CSR and SiGe Semiconductor . These new partners were selected to work with RMI to deliver a low cost GPS implementation in RMI's mPND reference solution, recently announced at...

Anritsu Co. introduces the ML2480B series wideband peak power meters that combine wide 20 MHz bandwidth and 64 MS/s sampling rate that allow the instruments to conduct highly accurate peak power measurements on next-generation wireless and military communications signals. The new power meters provide best-in-class performance and ease of...

Industry News Autoliv , the world’s largest maker of air bags and seat belts, announced it has agreed to buy the automotive radar sensors business of Tyco Electronics for $42 M. This part of the business unit designs and manufactures active radar proximity and attribute sensor systems used in...

The following booth numbers are complete at the time of going to press. GPU-based Cluster Solution Acceleware’s C30-16 is a commercially available GPU-based cluster solution. This solutiocombines the company’s new clustering technology with its portfolio of designed-for-parallel computational algorithms to harness the power of 64 GPUs, delivering unprecedented performance...