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Following its launch on 25 October, NASA's STEREO mission will count on image sensors from e2v to capture detailed pictures of the Sun. The mission will use two simultaneously orbiting spacecraft to study the Sun in a three-dimensional manner, with the resulting 3D snaps used to help predict when...

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR®), El Segundo, CA, and Shanghai Research Institute of Microelectronics (SHRIME), Peking University , China, announced that AWR is donating its entire suite of radio-frequency (RF) design software in a collaborative effort to advance Peking University's high frequency design curriculum. The donation is the first...

EDO Corp. executives joined US Rep. Henry E. Brown, Jr. and Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. to officially open a new facility to manufacture state-of-the-art battlefield communications systems. This operation employs 50 people, with a projected growth to 70 in 2007. "This new facility is 50,000 square feet and...

Tyco Electronics and Versatile Systems Inc. announced the expansion of the SyncSeer™ system capabilities by adding M/A-COM RFID components to the SyncSeer system. The SyncSeer system is an intelligent, technology infrastructure and information management system comprised of hardware and software for companies in the entertainment, retail, health care, government...

The role of Taiwanese handset makers is becoming increasingly significant in the global handset industry. Cooperation with handset original design manufacturers (ODM) has become an integral part of the handset strategies of some big original equipment manufacturers (OEM) such as Motorola and Sony Ericsson, especially in the low-end handset...

Ray Almgren, National Instruments vice president of product marketing and academic relations, addressed a worldwide community of engineering educators October 12 at the American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) fifth annual Global Colloquium on Engineering Education in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The colloquium brings engineering educators across the globe...

Centerline Technologies announces the appointment of Robert Naugler to the position of operations manager. In this capacity, Naugler is responsible for the day to day operation of Centerline Technologies’ lapping, polishing and dicing operations. His responsibilities also include the supervision of quality, production and statistical process control. He will...

Published October 25, 2006 From: Shi Bo, IZR Science Park Dear Harlan, How can you accurately measure noise figure on-chip using probes? Dear Shi, There are a number of commercially available probes and noise figure test sets that can be used to make measurements. However, the absolute noise figure...

Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR ® ) announced that in order to better serve the company's rapidly expanding Japanese customer base, it has opened a dedicated sales, marketing and support center in Japan, and has appointed Michiyoshi Endo as managing director. A graduate of the Tohoku Institute of Technology...

The RF to Light 100 dropped 1% last week, YTD +12% at 2412. Level 3 Communications agreed to acquire Broadwing. Fairchild swung into a 3Q06 profit but warned that 4Q may be below expectations - stock dropped 16%. Motorola reported weaker wireless infrastructure sales - stock dropped 10%. Microwave...