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Against the backdrop of the UK government’s continued emphasis on using innovation to drive economic growth, QinetiQ announced the creation of the UK’s first professorship in technology transfer in the physical sciences. The £1 M professorship, which is jointly funded by QinetiQ and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research...

Following the publication of the first EECA-ESIA European Semiconductor Industry: 2005 Competitiveness Report a high level meeting was held to highlight and discuss its findings. Europe’s Enterprise and Industry Commissioner, Günter Verheugen and the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) discussed the report and how the semiconductor industry in Europe...

One of the Wi-Fi industry’s most closely watched stalemates received a new twist. Faced with a deadlock between two competing groups and proposals for the shape of an 802.11n protocol standard, TGn Sync and WWiSE agreed to build a combined proposal that would forge a compromise between the two...

A new 465-page report is now available from Engalco on the subject of “SATCOM Antennas — the Worldwide Industry and Market Opportunities to 2012.” This report indicates that the overall global market will grow from $887 M in 2005 to reach $6.68 B in 2010, that is an anticipated...

Bluetooth is firmly established as a short-range wireless solution for voice and data transmission, as 2005 will be the fourth consecutive year in which Bluetooth-enabled product shipments more than double, reports In-Stat. This year’s shipments are forecast to be 316 million units, a total that will rise to 866...

Industry News Microsemi Corp. and Advanced Power Technology Inc. (APT) announced the signing of a definitive agreement for Microsemi to acquire APT. With this acquisition, Microsemi, a designer and manufacturer of high performance analog solutions and high reliability semiconductor solutions, expands its portfolio of analog mixed signal offering in...

Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design, Third Edition Constantine A. Balanis Wiley-Interscience 1134 pages; $118.95 ISBN: 0-471-66782-X This book’s main objective is to introduce, in a unified manner, the fundamental principles of antenna theory and to apply them to the analysis, design and measurements of antennas. It is designed to...

The inaugural IEEE MTT-S Radio and Wireless Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 6th Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic ICs, the IEEE Topical Workshop on Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications and the Radio and Wireless Exhibition. All of the technical meetings and the exhibition will be held...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $52 M US Navy contract to provide engineering services for the Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar (ROTHR) program. The award is a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide continuing engineering support on the radar systems, including both hardware and software maintenance...

Electronic design automation (EDA) tools have traditionally been developed as separate sets of tools offering little or no interoperability with third-party tools. As the design of next-generation communications products evolves and becomes increasingly complex, the need for a more integrated tool flow is elevated, and it has become obvious...