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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the deployment of its 14 th mobile calibration team, located in Colorado Spring, CO. Customers in the Americas with Agilent electronic measurement instruments can get true OEM calibrations (measurements performed using Agilent procedures for every datasheet specification) while minimizing instrument downtime. At-your-door calibration service typically...

Carlisle Interconnect Technologies/ECS (CarlisleIT) recently received their 100 th FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) and their 13 th STC related to the installation of Electronic Flight Bags (EFB). STC ST02949CH approves the installation of three configurations of a Class 3 EFB for use on the B737NG Series aircraft. CarlisleIT/ECS...

Pulse Electronics Corp. , a provider of electronic components, announced that its laser direct structuring (LDS) process was selected by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for producing three-dimensional antennas to be incorporated into future Samsung products that use an antenna. Pulse's LDS process creates an antenna pattern in three dimensions...

CommScope has signed an agreement to acquire Argus Technologies , a leading producer of innovative antenna solutions for wireless applications, headquartered in Bella Vista, New South Wales, Australia. The terms of the agreement are not being disclosed, but the acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of...

Norsat International Inc. has been awarded a satellite based communications network and services contract valued at CDN $3.5 M from the First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of British Columbia (FNESS) to provide enhanced broadband access to over 2,700 residents living in remote First Nations communities in British Columbia, Canada....

STMicroelectronics and Circuits Multi Projets® (CMP) have announced that the CMOS 28 nm process from STMicroelectronics is now available for prototyping to universities, research labs and companies through the silicon brokerage services provided by CMP. The introduction of the 28 nm CMOS process builds on the successful collaboration that...

The R&S SGS100A, a new signal generator from Rohde & Schwarz , is claimed to enable production lines to work faster and more cost-effectively. It covers the frequency range from DC to 12.75 GHz and has been optimized for use in automated test systems. The signal source is compact...

At IMS 2011, Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, introduced connectorized, high power filters for military, homeland security, airborne and high-end commercial transceiver applications. These smaller, lighter and more portable solutions offer customers significant...

AWR® Corp. and LFoundry GmbH announced the availability of a process design kit (PDK) for LF150. LFoundry’s LF150 is a modular 0.15 µm RF CMOS process, offering up to six levels of Aluminum plus thick metal (2 to 6 µm), optionally a MIM capacitor, a polyimide passivation and I/O...

In an awards ceremony held at IMS 2011, NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the grand prize winner of its first-ever High Performance RF (HPRF) Design Challenge. After an intense final round of judging, "A 2-kW Amplifier for a Portable 449 MHz Spaced Antenna Wind Profiler Radar" by Brad Lindseth was...