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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...

An online end-user survey recently completed by ABI Research has found that RFID is being used or evaluated for a growing number of applications across a wide range of vertical industry sectors. Over 180 organizations worldwide responded to the survey, providing a detailed picture of the current state of...

AR Web Demonstrations Visit this web site to watch AR specialists demonstrate some of the most innovative products and systems, and review important industry information. Demonstrations include: TGAR: Automotive Transient Generator System Overview and Demonstration; AR’s 8 to 20 GHz Solid State Amplifier Series; AR’s Field Monitoring Equipment; a...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that ST Microelectronics has selected Agilent's physical layer sink test solution to test its devices according to the MIPI D-PHY standard. This test setup provides the industry's first and complete automated physical layer receiver and transmitter tests, and also speeds up and simplifies test. Agilent's...

Radio Waves Inc. is celebrating its 25 th anniversary. The company has been designing and manufacturing high quality microwave antennas for 25 years and proudly building these antennas in Billerica, MA. When asked about his company’s 25 th anniversary, Andy Singer, president of Radio Waves, said, “It is the...

This series looks at the past five decades of our industry as described in this magazine. In this third installment of our six-part series, we focus on the 1970s, the decade of Watergate, a gas crisis, Americans held hostage in Iran... ah, yes, good times. At least we had...

Last June I spent a week and a half in Europe visiting Sweden, England and Italy. Bill Bazzy and I started the trip together; however, except for two days in Sweden and a day in Rome we went our separate ways. Sweden In Sweden I spent a good deal...

Tracing from Maxwell, through World War II to the communications boom and beyond, this report provides an insight into Europe’s historical role and the part it continues to play in the development of the global microwave industry. When Ted Saad and Bill Bazzy took their “Flight into the European...

The digitally-controlled attenuator (DCA) is a fundamental element of any system that combines microwave components and embedded digital control in its architecture. It consists of a bank of fixed attenuator pads, each of which can be switched in or out to adaptively select the optimum signal level for a...