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So my colleagues have been giving me a hard time about the promo piece that I created to describe this year's "added-value" opportunity for our May MTT-S show issue advertisers. I guess they think it's hokey, gimmicky, cheesy, ugly or even worse. They particularly don't like the graphic of...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced it has teamed with Atmel Corp. , a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, to deliver ZigBee® solutions for a broad range of smart energy applications. RFMD's newly introduced RF6575 ZigBee front-end module (FEM) has been combined with the Atmel ATmega128RFA1 Single-Chip solution...

Welcome to the calm before the storm. The Mobile World Congress and CTIA Wireless shows are behind us. The International Microwave Symposium (or MTT as us old school people call it) looms on the horizon. I imagine most of you with exhibition responsibilities are busy hammering out details right...

Having worked with engineering clients for my entire career something has definitely rubbed off. Just this week, I was asked at my expectant baby CPR class if I was an engineer after I quizzed the nurse about the realness of the CPR doll, as the response of its rib...

Welcome to Microwave Journal's Online Show Daily coverage of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2011 in Baltimore, June 5-10. Our coverage this year includes exclusive content from conference organizers, exhibitors, the latest product releases, social media and analysis from our editors. We will begin posting show related news,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced the industry’s fastest logic analyzer. The new instrument combines a state capture speed of 4 Gb/s on 68 channels and 2.5 Gb/s on 136 channels with the ability to reliably capture data on the industry’s smallest eye openings, as small as 100 ps by 100...

Professor J. David Rhodes, CBS, FRS, FR Engineering Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds, will be the plenary session speaker on Monday, June 6 at the IEEE MTT-S 2011 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Since founding Filtronic more than 30 years ago, Rhodes has received the OBE (the Officer...

Booming bandwidth demand for backhauling major wireless carriers 3G, 4G and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services has turned FiberTower , one of the largest alternative backhaul providers in the United States, to DragonWave Inc. products for high-capacity packet microwave. DragonWave’s Horizon Compact is being deployed to support FiberTower’s microwave-based packet...

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced the results of its quarterly Wafer Fabrication and Back-End Pricing Survey, analyzing prices paid per wafer and mask set and for outsourced assembly services by fabless semiconductor companies and integrated device manufacturers (IDM). The results of the Q1 2011 Wafer Fabrication & Back-End...