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Introduction A voltage controlled oscillator or VCO is an oscillator that can be frequency controlled by an external voltage. The external voltage is called a tuning voltage and it is typically connected to a voltage variable capacitor (varactor) within the resonant oscillator circuit. As the voltage changes, the capacitance...

Fabless semiconductor company Lime Microsystems has joined the Femto Forum, the independent industry and operator association that supports femtocell deployment worldwide. The Forum promotes the adoption of femtocell technologies through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. Lime Microsystems’ technology is ideally suited to femtocells as its reconfigurable multi-band...

Agilent Technologies announced that it will collaborate with the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to research large-signal and sub-mm-wave characterization techniques. "Agilent has been one of our biggest and most reliable supporters for the past two decades," said Leo de Vreede, associate professor in the research school...

Anritsu Co. announces enhancements to its Site Master™ family that continue to position the handheld analyzers as the de facto instruments for deploying, installing and maintaining wireless networks. The new enhancements, which are also available in the Cell Master™ handheld base station analyzer, include a 30 percent improvement in...

The 38 th European Microwave Conference (EuMC) that will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 28 to 30 October, is the core of European Microwave Week 2008, the largest event in Europe dedicated to microwave electronics. The European Microwave Conference is the premier forum for the presentation of...

Tektronix Inc. , a worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced that PulseCore Semiconductor has successfully used a full suite of Tektronix test instrumentation to test and validate its recently announced USB 2.0 integrated circuit (IC). The new PulseCore IC is the first in the industry to...

Inphi® Corp. , a leader in analog performance and signal integrity, announced the successful interoperability demonstration of its market leading 40G DQPSK modulator driver with Sierra Monolithics (SMI), a leader in 40 Gbps SerDes, multiplexer and clock multiplier unit (MUX/CMU). The result of this demonstration is the industry’s first...

Recent decades have seen the widespread adoption of short-range wireless communications, including wireless LANs (Wi-Fi), ultra-wideband (UWB) and RFID. All of these can be used as part of real-time location systems (RTLS). According to a new Research Brief from ABI Research, however, a preoccupation with the technologies alone is...

Park Electrochemical Corp. has announced that its Neltec Europe SAS and Neltec SA business units are proposing to restructure their operations. As a result, Neltec Europe SAS, Park’s digital electronic materials business unit located in Mirebeau, France, is proposing to close its operations completely and, in accordance with French...

Those still undecided or putting the finishing touches to their paper submissions for the next ARMMS conference being held on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 November 2008 at the Hotel Elizabeth near Rockingham, Northamptonshire, UK, are reminded of the imminent 3 October deadline . This two-day conference, sponsored by...