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The ZigBee standard has arrived. Just as ABI Research forecast earlier this year, the ZigBee standard was ratified recently. ABI Research has based its ZigBee shipments and ASP forecasts on the assumption that the ZigBee ratification would take place at the end of 2004. The recent ratification by the...

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 (DIAD) it intends to deploy over the next three years, starting in the US and Europe (DIADs are the...

RF and Microwave Power Amplifier Design Andrei Grebennikov McGraw-Hill 432 pages; $99.99 ISBN: 0-07-144493-9 The main objective of this book is to present all the relevant information required for RF and microwave power amplifier design, including well-known and novel theoretical approaches and practical design techniques as well as to...

One hundred years on from the invention of radar the 7th European Microwave Week (EuMW) fittingly marked the anniversary with the birth of a new conference (EuRAD) that ran alongside the existing three conferences and industrial exhibition. Naturally, the event, held at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam last October,...

Enhanced performance is needed from antennas, radomes and other microwave components to support ever-increasing functionality for military communications, electronic warfare (EW), electronic intelligence (ELINT), signal intelligence (SIGINT) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) measurement applications. There is a continuing demand for antennas with broader bandwidth and better controlled radiation patterns while...

Micro-Ant Inc. is an innovative antenna design, development and manufacturing company whose engineers have extensive experience with reducing complex, sophisticated antenna systems to robust, low cost commercial, military, government and consumer products. The company recognizes the ever-growing need for new antennas to meet the changing requirements of the communication...

Teledyne Relays transformed the industry in 1961 by introducing the TO-5 relay. Today, an equally innovative step has been made with the introduction of the Series RF522 relay, a compact, double-pole, double-throw (DPDT), surface-mount latching device for applications up to 10 GHz. The new relay is an extremely small...

Twenty years ago in Microwave Journal we wrote about “Radar in Transition.” The article opened with the statement that “radar engineers, at the end of 1984, find their field in transition between the conventional designs of the post World War II era and the digitally controlled, solid-state systems that...

Miniaturization and cost reduction along with ever expanding user functions are important features for modern consumer communication devices as customers demand more data throughput at low cost. System-on-chip (SoC) and system-in-package (SiP) have brought more and more circuits and functions together. For passive circuits, traditional multi-layer printed circuit boards...

Multipath, shadowing and fading effects are major challenges in the reliable operation of terrestrial wireless communication channels. Signals from transmitter to receiver bounce from various objects and from the ground, and add in the receiver antenna in a way that can be destructive to signal strength and therefore to...