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Lime Microsystems’ single-chip multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver has been selected by Global Wireless Technologies (GWT) for the latest version of its Universal Access Point (UAPTM) femtocell, the UAP106/232. The UAP106/232 is a configurable platform for femtocells supporting WCDMA and CDMA2000 standards and is software upgradeable to support 4G LTE....

TowerJazz , a specialty foundry leader, announced it was selected by Toppan Technical Design Center Co. Ltd. (TDC) as its preferred specialty foundry supplier. TowerJazz has successfully engaged in multiple specialty design projects in Japan with TDC in the area of Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technologies used for high...

Ducommun Inc. announced that its Ducommun Technologies Inc. subsidiary, a current supplier of lighted push button switches, time delay relays and TCAS switches to The Boeing Co. , has been awarded a contract to deliver the Next-Generation 737 engine start switches. These rotary switches, currently being designed and qualified...

The next generation of military tactical radios will serve as nodes and hubs in mobile ad hoc networks. These networks will connect ground, naval, airborne and satellite assets into an interactive mesh of battlefield information and decision-making. The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, “Electronic Component Demand...

Aviat Networks Inc. , a wireless expert in advanced IP migration solutions, announced that it has opened a new 128,000-square-foot facility at 5200 Great America Parkway in Santa Clara, CA, and will now be the location of its corporate headquarters. The relocation follows the company’s global re-branding effort as...

HRL Laboratories LLC will be a partner in Stanford University’s Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion (CNEEC), established in 2009 with a $20 M, five-year grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The CNEEC mission is to research sustainable energy technologies through nanostructuring and material science....

BridgeWave Communications , a supplier of gigabit wireless solutions for 4G network backhaul, and Provigent , a provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced a strategic partnership enabling BridgeWave to extend its market leading millimeter-wave solutions to the edge of 4G networks. Provigent will...

December 2010 Aeroflex Introduces New SGA By Aeroflex Aeroflex has just introduced a new range of general purpose portable benchtop RF instruments at an attractive price. The first products include two SGAs covering the 100 KHz to 3 and 6 GHz range. These signal generators are compact and lightweight...

Teledyne Technologies Inc. and Intelek plc jointly announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Teledyne for the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Intelek (the “Offer”). Under the terms of the Offer, Intelek’s ordinary...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Orlando, FL-based subsidiary, Comtech Systems Inc., received an order for $11 M from an international prime contractor for transportable troposcatter systems to be used by a middle eastern government. This is the first material troposcatter equipment contract with this foreign government. The order...