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AWR and Vector Fields Partner

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR®), a provider of high frequency electronic design automation (EDA) tools, and Vector Fields Ltd. announced at the 2006 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium that they have integrated Vector Fields’ Concerto™ three-dimensional (3D) electromagnetic (EM) modeling software into AWR’s Microwave Office® circuit design platform. Vector...
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Fairchild’s 4x4 mm Dual-band PA Saves Space, Extends Range in WLAN Applications

Building upon its portfolio of WLAN power amplifiers (PA), Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the FMPA2151, a highly integrated dual-band WLAN power amplifier module optimized to increase performance and reduce PCB board footprint in the latest 802.11a/bg WLAN applications, including notebooks, digital cameras and portable handsets. The high performance FMPA2151 offers...
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RFMD® Introduces GaN High Power Transistors

RFMD ® introduced a family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) high power transistors and is sampling to top-tier cellular infrastructure and WiMAX base station customers. The sampling of these transistors represents the achievement of a baseline 0.5 um GaN high power transistor process by RFMD....
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TriQuint Introduces New GaAs Amplifiers at MTT-S

TriQuint Semiconductor , a supplier of microwave and millimeter-wave products for wireless communications infrastructure and the defense industry, introduced new gallium arsenide (GaAs) amplifiers during the IMS MTT-S Exhibition in San Francisco, CA. These new amplifiers are part of TriQuint’s continuing commitment to meet customers’ market-specific high frequency signal...
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Automated Pattern Measurement for Circularly-polarized Antennas Using the Phase-amplitude Method

This article describes an increasingly popular procedure for measuring circularly-polarized (CP) antennas. Known as the phase-amplitude method, this procedure is particularly well suited for implementation in an automated antenna measurement system tha...
Polarization is a basic consideration in the design of any wireless communication system. Most systems use either linear or circular polarization. For a simple description of these two types of wave polarization, consider the illustration shown in Figure 1 . This figure shows an electromagnetic wave approaching an observer....
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