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RF Micro Devices Inc. announced it has captured a major design win on a leading handset original equipment manufacturer's (OEM) upcoming 3G multimode handset platform. RFMD® secured the design win with the industry's highest performance and most highly integrated triple-path, broadband power amplifier (PA), delivering unmatched broadband performance and...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that AgustaWestland , a Finmeccanica Company, has awarded them a contract to provide its PCM770 Encoders for use in the Flight Test Data Acquisition System of the AgustaWestland next-generation Lynx Helicopter. The Future Lynx will be the UK Army's new Battlefield Reconnaissance Helicopter and the...

CSR announced that it has achieved recognition by the Bluetooth SIG as a Bluetooth Recognized Test Facility (BRTF). CSR’s test facilities are now regarded as having developed to the point where it can entirely test its own firmware, rather than using an external testing house. BRTF status means that...

This history of Microwave Journal as told through the articles that appeared in the magazine over the past 50 years is also the history of the microwave industry as told by those in the business. This series looks at the past five decades of microwave technology as described in...

EJL Wireless Research has just released its mobile subscriber and mobile terminal (handsets and data cards) forecast for TD-SCDMA technology. The company is predicting that TD-SCDMA subscribers in China will reach 12 million by 2012 and that overall mobile terminal shipments will equal 11.5 million units by 2012. A...

Tektronix Inc. , a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the new AWG7000B and AWG5000B Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWG) (visit www.tek.com/sources). The AWG B series provides a 20 percent performance boost over many of the prior AWG instruments and continues to be the world’s fastest...

Retrospective — December 1962 Introduction The demands imposed by systems requirements have made it necessary to provide components which are not only extremely reliable but which are completely described in respect to their electrical, mechanical and environmental characteristics. Many engineering societies and industry associations are active in preparing and...

The deal between Sprint and Clearwire, the one that had hung up in the past, finally closed and brought along a bunch of partners ranging from Intel and Google to Time-Warner and Comcast. The deal got good PR support too, but all the partners and press in the world...

Nitronex , a developer and manufacturer of high-performance RF power transistors for wireless infrastructure, broadband and military markets, has received Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding to further develop its GaN technology for military and aerospace applications. The two year Phase II STTR program began in the...

QinetiQ Group plc has agreed to acquire Dominion Technology Resources Inc. (DTRI), a provider of high end products and services to the US Intelligence Community. DTRI’s expertise focuses on mission architecture engineering, integration and operations support. Under the terms of the agreement, which is conditional upon regulatory clearance in...