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Channel Microwave announced that it has been acquired by Smiths Group plc , and will now operate as an independent division of Lorch Microwave Inc. "We are proud to become a part of the Smiths family of companies, and we are committed to maintaining the sound business practices and...

NoiseWave announces the immediate availability of the NW18G-MI Noise Instrument. The unit is a manual Additive White Gaussian Noise generator that features broadband frequency coverage from 2 to 18 GHz. Power out is -14 dBm and the unit features a flatness of ± 2.5 dB. The NW18G-MI operates from...

Lockheed Martin has elevated preferred supplier Evans Capacitor Co. to the Platinum level of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control’s three-tiered Preferred Supplier Program. The Preferred Supplier Program supports the company’s philosophy of building a world-class supply chain that demonstrates excellence as the standard and continuous improvement as the...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced its first high performance Dielectric Resonator Oscillator (DRO). An exciting new product, the HMC-C200 is one of the lowest phase noise X-band DRO products in the industry. The HMC-C200 DRO features a...

Richardson Electronics Ltd. , the electronics components distributor with strong local support and a key presence in all major markets worldwide, announced that it is stocking and delivering Vincotech ’s newest complete GPS receiver system solutions, the A1084-A and A1084-B receiver modules and the A1035-H receiver/antenna module. Both the...

“The outlook for mobile handset markets continues to improve,” says Jake Saunders, ABI Research’s VP for Forecasting. “While 3Q-2009 showed a YoY 6.5 percent contraction in shipments to 291.1 million, 2009 should close out with only a 4 to 5 percent contraction (to 1,138 million for the year).” Handset...

Boonton , a Wireless Telecom Group (WTG) company, introduced its new PIM 31 precision analyzer for testing passive intermodulation of RF components and assemblies. Passive intermodulation is an unwanted mixing effect that is caused by non-linearity of passive components in RF paths, generated when two or more signals are...

Is the Lack of Fine-Pitch Probes and Fixtures Preventing Product Advancement? Recent advances in micro-probe technology may have broken through the roadblock to miniaturization. Durable, fine-pitch probes in sizes from 20 to 8 mils along with corresponding test fixtures support product miniaturization in cases where the electronic assemblies have...

Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a 27 to 34 GHz QFN packaged receiver with a noise figure of 2.5 dB and 13 dB conversion gain. This receiver, identified as XR1019-QH, integrates a low noise amplifier (LNA), image reject mixer and LO buffer amplifier within a fully molded 4x4 mm QFN...

A massive increase in international co-operation and significant investment in awareness-building and training are essential if the concept of an Internet of Things (IoT) is to be turned into a meaningful reality, says a European Union-funded project in its final report, RFID and the Inclusive Model for the Internet...