Industry News

Focus on EuRAD and the Exploitation of Communications Techniques

EuRAD Chairman, Patrick Beasley, discusses a developing conference, the convergence between radar and communications technologies, environmental issues and more.
Right from its inception European Microwave Week has involved radar activities; with the number of radar related papers increasing year-by-year until in Amsterdam in October 2004, the current series of separate conferences began. That growth has continued with the 2006 European Radar Conference seeing a substantial conference programme consisting...
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ABF Elettronica — Expanding Horizons and its Customer base

Showing the exuberance of youth the company intends to make friends and influence people
ABF Elettronica is a relatively young company of just twenty years. The main manufacturing is at our Italian headquarters but since 2004 the company has turned its attention to the new opportunities of integration provided by emerging East European countries. Consequently, we have recently built a plant in Romania,...
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Coupled Line Noise in High Sensitivity RF Receiver Circuits

Current trends in modern wireless communications systems require advanced digital signals to handle high data throughput. The wider frequency bandwidth of a data-containing signal channel, along with sophisticated digital modulation, result in stringent signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) requirements to maintain affordable data loss (bit error rate (BER), packet/frame error rate...
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AWR Introduces RF Planning Tool for Communication Design

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR ® ), a provider of high frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, announced RFA™, a system-level architectural planning tool, which provides an advanced radio frequency (RF) budget analysis feature and “frequency heritage inspection” capabilities for next-generation communication design. This new entry-level product is the...
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Filtronic Samples New Family of Packaged MMICs

Filtronic Compound Semiconductors announced they are now sampling a new family of packaged MMICs targeting the Wireless Infrastructure (WI) and WiMAX market segments. The FMA3017QFN, FMA3018QFN and FMA3019QFN MMICs are balanced low noise amplifiers packaged in industry standard, cost-effective RoHS compliant outlines. Each MMIC is designed for optimum performance...
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’Disruptive Technologies’ XtremeQ™ Filters and Resonators from DLI

Dielectric Laboratories Inc. (DLI) is offering microwave filters and resonators in its XtremeQ™ series now available from prototype to high volume manufacturing. XtremeQ filters and resonators can be ordered from DLI’s extensive catalog “Resonators, Filters and Custom Ceramic Components” or manufactured to customer’s specification utilizing proprietary or patented ceramic...
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Chelton Telecom & Microwave — the Need for a European Focus

The Cobham company with a wide RF and microwaves portfolio identifies EuMW as a key event for European and global development
During 2006, Chelton Telecom & Microwave decided to focus on just three important shows, with European Microwave Week being an automatic choice. With its European coverage and high profile in the microwave industry, it is one of the shows that counts and where we, as a company, want to...
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RFHIC — from Asia, to Europe and Beyond

Dr. Samuel Cho, CTO of RFHIC gives a Korean perspective on addressing European and global markets
As a Korean company, RFHIC sees the European market as being key in expanding microwave technology and a stepping-stone to other markets. We believe that by investing in the European market we will be able to further develop newer technology and develop enhanced products. European Microwave Week has an...
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Focus on EuMIC 2006 and the Microwave Integrated Circuits of Tomorrow

The EuMIC Chairman, Steve Marsh, highlights the inaugural conference and look to a future with perhaps GaAs-only mobile phones and GaN chips in base stations
As has been much publicised, 2006 heralds the inauguration of the European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, which carries on from the highly successful GAAS ® symposia. The GAAS Association and the European Microwave Association have worked together to produce a conference that maintains the excellent traditions of the former...
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MPG Opens Sales Office in Sweden

Microwave Products Group® (MPG), composed of Dow-Key Microwave and K&L Microwave , announced the opening of a new office in Stockholm, Sweden. This new location significantly enhances MPG’s ability to serve new and existing customers in Scandinavia. It also supports company initiatives to improve customer relations and corporate growth...
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