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Workshops & Courses International Workshop on Wafer Level CSP and Flip Chip Packaging Topics : Wafer level packaging materials and processes, wafer level burn-in and test, small die and memory products, ultra-high density substrate technologies for WLP, new and advanced wafer technologies, wafer package reliability. Site : Stone Mountain,...

News From Washington Engineered Support Receives $3.5 M Order for Avionics Testing System from US Navy Engineered Support Systems Inc. received a $3.5 M order from the US Navy for the production of aircraft avionics testing subsystems for Consolidated Automated Support Systems (CASS). This order, which represents a modification...

International Report Thales Wins Euro 210 Million NH90 Contract International avionics contractor Thales Avionics has been awarded a Euro 210 million contract covering the supply of avionics and electrical power system equipment into the multi- national NH 90 helicopter programme. Working with partners Diehl Avionik Systeme, Teldix, Galileo Avionica...

The Commercial Market Terrorism Attacks Accelerate Interest in GPS Applications According to Allied Business Intelligence, Global Positioning System (GPS) applications have attracted increased interest in the wake of the terrorism attacks of 2001. American society has changed from one that is casual toward these kinds of threats to one...

The Book End Radio Receiver Design Kevin McClaning and Tom Vito Noble Publishing Corp. 796 pages; $89 ISBN: 1-884932-07-X This reference book has been written by engineers, for engineers involved in the design of radio receivers and systems and can also be used by students interested in the subject....

Product Feature A High Power Multi-carrier Power Amplifier Celiant™ Corp. Warren, NJ Power amplifiers are critical radio frequency components of wireless network systems, typically representing 10 to 40 percent of the cost of a basestation. There are a variety of wireless standards associated with 2G, 2.5G and 3G wireless...

Cover Feature A High Gain Power Amplifier with Variable Bias for Multi-mode WCMDA Applications RF Micro Devices Greensboro, NC This article describes a new high performance power amplifier (PA) for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) applications. With the transition from second generation (2G) systems, such as Global System...

Product Feature An X-band, High Power, MMIC-based Microwave Amplifier Milmega Ltd. Isle of Wight, UK When established performance ranges are extended, it is often a simple case of developing and building on the original technology. Not so for the AS 80110/30 microwave amplifier, which has been produced to extend...

Technical Feature Low Phase Noise SiGe Voltage-controlled Oscillators for Wireless Applications A low phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is one of the critical circuits in modern telecommunications systems. In recent years, silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology has become one of the most promising technologies for VCO designs. This article...

Technical Feature A Varactor-tuned Oscillator with Linear Tuning Characteristic Munkyo Seo, Joo-Yeol Lee and Kyung-Kuk Lee LG Electronics Inc. Seoul, Korea Sangwook Nam Seoul National University Seoul, Korea In certain areas of microwave applications such as FMCW radars, FM modulators and phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits, the system performance is...