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QinetiQ 's EMC Group is enhancing its world leading mobile test capability for providing on-site EMC evaluation and testing for all vehicle platforms and fixed installations. Most significantly, its microwave instrumentation has been updated to provide an 18 to 40 GHz capability for the evaluation of susceptibility and measurement...

On 20 October Nordic Semiconductor ASA and Nu Horizons Asia Ptd Ltd. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Nu Horizons Electronics Corp., announced the signing of a Pan-Asian partnership agreement. This agreement involves the distribution for all of Nordic's products throughout the territories of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India,...

ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) has received $120 M in contracts from the Swiss defense procurement agency, Armasuisse , to provide the Swiss Air Force with advanced Link-16 connectivity for its fighter aircraft. The funding represents a continuation of work by TRS on the Florako command and control program. This is a...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Ikanos Communications Inc. to sell its FUSIV network processor and Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) product line. The divesture is in line with ADI’s strategy of focusing its digital signal processing (DSP)...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has selected a name for its upcoming semiconductor test spin-off company. The new name, Verigy , will be used when the new company separates from Agilent, which is expected to occur near mid-2006. The name is built from the Latin prefix "veri-" ("true, genuine"),...

Trilithic Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of RF and microwave passive components and filters, announced the opening of a new sales office in Europe. With this expansion, Trilithic will provide local sales support for all customers and sales agents in Europe as well as initiating new business development...

With its seventh-generation high voltage (HV7) RF LDMOS technology, Freescale Semiconductor has achieved the RF power transistor performance required for use in WiMAX base stations operating in the 3.5 GHz band. Freescale claims this achievement marks the first time RF Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) technology from any...

To develop and support its activities in India, e2v organized a training course for its distributor, Aimil Ltd. The company sent three members of staff to run the course: Alice Reinheimer, senior applications engineer for sensors from the US office and Martin Edwards, product manager electronic tubes and Andy...

Wireless communications specialist Nordic Semiconductor and Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. have announced a North American extension of their existing pan-Asian distribution agreement, which was agreed in October 2005. The expansion of the distribution partnership covers distribution rights in the United States, Canada and Mexico for the company’s wireless communication...

A contract worth over $225,000 has been awarded to Pascall Electronics by Thales UK Ltd. to supply phase locked, microwave frequency signal sources, with the complete order to be delivered before the end of March 2006. Continued development has helped to stimulate new orders and Pascall's range of PLDROs...