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Published August 7, 2007 In an effort to better combine the editorial content of our magazine with our newly developed and retooled on-line presence, we have decided to expand Harlan's RF and microwave engineering advice into a monthly feature that appears in Microwave Journal. Harlan has selected one question...

STMicroelectronics and IBM have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of next-generation process technology. The agreement includes 32 nm and 22 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology development, design enablement and advanced research adapted to the manufacturing of 300 mm silicon wafers. In addition it includes...

Ericsson and Texas Instruments Inc. will form a strategic technology engagement to develop custom solutions for new Open OS enabled 3G devices. Solutions from the technology created by the two companies will combine small and power efficient 3G modems from Ericsson Mobile Platforms with high-performance OMAPTM applications processors from...

Due to the growing number of customers in the region, IMST has authorized Petra Microwave Ltd. to provide first line technical support for all customers in North America (US and Canada), while RTS Scientific Inc. will be the sole sales partner for the company’s EDA software tools for the...

Aeroflex has launched an entry-level version of its well-proven and highly successful 6113 Digital Radio Test Set for testing mobile base stations, targeted primarily at emerging markets including Africa, South America and Eastern Europe. The entry-level version is being offered with one A-bis interface for full base station control...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $5.9 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $463.2 M MTS contract increased to $404.7 M. The orders are for...

Astron Wireless Technologies was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the Department of Defense (DoD) for development of an ‘Adaptive Bandwidth High Power RF Antenna.’ The objective is to develop a universal approach to the design of very high power broadband antennas for the...

In the past few years, the interest in the millimeter-wave spectrum at 30 to 300 GHz has drastically increased. The emergence of low cost high performance CMOS technology and low loss, low cost organic packaging material has opened a new perspective for system designers and service providers because it...

The development of multiple beams and reconfigurable antennas has always been tightly connected to that of beam-forming networks. The beam-forming network (BFN) is often the dominant component, the true “heart” of most multiple beams antennas. Beam-forming networks are complex networks used to precisely control the phase and amplitude of...

To address the space, cost and power-consumption constraints of mobile portable devices from cell phones to PDAs and laptops, the trend in RFIC design is to combine the analog baseband (BB) and processor interface into a single chip solution (see Figure 1 ). With new products experiencing narrow market-windows...