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Scandinavian train operator, SJ, has awarded Icomera the €11 million contract to equip its fleet with the company’s Wireless Onboard Internet Service. Under the terms of the contract Icomera will deliver its Intercity Edition for the current X2000 train type and Commuter Edition for the new X40 fleet. Significantly...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently announced plans to increase the level of support for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), which grants shippers meeting security guidelines expedited processing at US ports. According to a new study by market intelligence firm ABI Research, continuing government programs will...

After two decades of development and despite increased competition from alternative technologies and from more companies developing lab-on-a-chip products, lab-on-a-chip technology finally appears to be making its mark within the MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) industry, according to In-Stat. Revenues of lab-on-a-chip devices are forecast to increase at a Compound Annual...

2005 will witness two major commercial telematics developments across multiple continents, according to ABI Research. United Parcel Service (UPS) will introduce the first of 70,000 new Delivery Information Acquisition Devices (DIADs) it intends to deploy over the next three years, starting with the US and Europe (DIADs are the...

RFID tags are poised to become the most far-reaching wireless technology since the cell phone, according to high tech market research firm In-Stat. Worldwide revenues from RFID tags will jump from $300 M in 2004 to $2.8 B in 2009. During this period, the technology will appear in many...

Smart Antennas Lal Chand Godara CRC Press 464 pages; $139.95, £85.00 ISBN: 0-8493-1206-X Smart antennas involve processing of signals induced on an array of sensors such as antennas, microphones and hydrophones. They have applications in the areas of radar, sonar, medical imaging and communications. The smart antenna field has...

High Frequency Circuit Simulator Nexxim™ is a circuit simulation tool that combined with Ansoft Designer™ targets the next generation of analog/mixed signal applications, including high performance RFCMOS, GaAs/SiGe RF ICs and gigabit computer and communication backplanes. With a multitude of algorithmic innovations in transient and harmonic-balance analyses, Nexxim achieves...

Industry News San-tron Inc. has been awarded a long-term contract by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems to be the primary supplier for the cable connectors used in the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) system. The connectors will be supplied to Boeing from the company’s Ipswich, MA facility, allowing for the...

Microwave & RF Components and Subsystems This Web site features the Weinschel division’s components and subsystems. It is updated often and offers a complete library of downloaded data sheets for a wide variety of RF and microwave components and subsystems. New items include on-line quote forms, keyword search, expanded...

As a supplier of microwave and millimeter-wave components, Hittite Microwave Corp.’s products are found in numerous designs within the microwave radio, point-to-point/multipoint, VSAT and test equipment markets. In particular, the company’s microwave and millimeter-wave mixer ICs have been used to implement image reject mixer (IRM) and single sideband (SSB)...