RF & Microwave Industry News

Rogers Introduces High Voltage LED Driver

Rogers Corp. , a leader in manufacturing of high performance specialty material products, introduces its new dur-E-volt™ high voltage, constant frequency peak current mode control LED driver. Using the dur-E-volt LED driver, an LED string is driven at a fixed current that is independent of the supply voltage. This...
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Agilent Introduces Signal Integrity Circuit Simulator

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced an EDA signal integrity circuit simulator for multigigabit, high-speed data link design. The Transient-Convolution Simulator -- part of Agilent’s Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software platform -- achieves a three-fold simulation speed improvement for signal integrity simulations. The Transient-Convolution Simulator combines the ADS High Frequency...
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Nitronex Expands 5 W Transistor Performance Data

Nitronex , a leader in gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) RF power transistors for the wireless infrastructure, broadband and military markets, has expanded the performance data of its 28 V, 5 W class high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) to include frequencies between 5.1 to 5.2 GHz and 5.7 to...
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Andrew Launches Complete Cable Family in HELIAX 2.0

Andrew , the CommScope Inc. division that is a leader in communications products and systems, has introduced HELIAX® 2.0, a complete cable and connector family for wireless networks, which offers operators and OEMs new RF transmission line options under a trusted brand. Andrew is the first transmission line supplier...
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Tektronix Provides Published Test Procedure

Tektronix Inc. , a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced availability of the first published test procedures for physical layer testing of the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 standard. Tektronix provides a comprehensive high speed serial data test suite for the SATA physical layer design and debug. Complete...
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RFCONNEXT Enters Interconnect Products and Services Market

RFCONNEXT Inc. has been established to provide new interconnect products and services for the high speed digital and RF/microwave/optical communication systems. The company has developed PMTL™, a new patent pending, transmission line technology, for high speed interconnect and packaging of devices and systems. The initial PMTL™ uflex cables provide...
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GaAs Wafer User Ratings Fail to Pick Overall Winner

Strategy Analytics released results from its annual industry surveys rating GaAs bulk and epitaxial wafer suppliers. “GaAs Bulk and Epitaxial Wafer Vendor Ratings and Customer Satisfaction 2007” concludes that no one GaAs epitaxial substrate supplier was rated highly enough to be able to satisfy both the technical and commercial...
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