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Andrew Corp. has signed a WCDMA infrastructure patent license agreement with QUALCOMM Inc. Under the terms of the worldwide royalty-bearing agreement, QUALCOMM has granted Andrew a license to develop, manufacture and sell WCDMA picocell and microcell base station systems. The agreement provides for the use of certain QUALCOMM intellectual...

Nokia Research Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have announced a research collaboration to advance the state of the art in mobile computing and communications technologies. As a result a new research facility – the Nokia Research Center Cambridge – will...

Xpedion Design Systems Inc. , a provider of next generation RFIC simulation, and Jazz Semiconductor , an independent wafer foundry focused primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies, announced a partnership to deliver a qualified model and simulation environment for next generation RFIC design. "One of the biggest challenges in...

Royal Philips Electronics has announced that the conversion to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliant/lead-free semiconductor products has been completed well ahead of European legislation mandating the manufacture of such electronic products by 1 July 2006 under European Commission Directive 2002/95/EC. In July 2001, Philips Semiconductors teamed up...

UK-based RFI Global Services , an independent provider of specialist testing and approval services to the cellular industry worldwide, continues to expand its range of test capabilities by taking delivery of the 19th test platform from Rohde & Schwarz . This is the first step in the company's aggressive...

AVX Corp. is now offering the LP0603 harmonic low pass filter with lead-free land grid array (LGA) termination. The ITF LGA low pass filter is based on thin-film technology and provides a miniature part with excellent high frequency performance and rugged construction for reliable automatic assembly. The ITF low...

Advanced Ku-band radar systems used in airborne military platforms need reliable, small size and weight, high power amplifiers. Sophia Wireless Inc. has developed a solid-state power amplifier, model MPC8-1520, which meets these requirements. Its key features include: Operating frequency: 16 to 17 GHz Internally pulsed RF DC storage capacitor...

A new product family of low noise amplifiers (LNA) has been introduced that is specifically designed to increase a wireless system’s performance and reliability. The Super LNA Series LNAs are optimized to meet the design goal of achieving the lowest noise figure and best return loss simultaneously over a...

The microwave industry is tied to the birth of radar. Figure 1 is a whimsical look at the birth of radar as portrayed in a 1960s ad for Bomac tubes. In reality, radar was developed primarily at the MIT Radiation Laboratory (RadLab) during World War II. Much of the...

Coplanar waveguides are widely used in MMICs as interconnects and matching networks. Designing low loss, multifunctional and highly integrable transmission lines is a key factor in obtaining high performance from MMICs in silicon technology. 1 Nevertheless, the low resistivity of a standard silicon substrate deteriorates the performance of on-chip...