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TiaLinx Inc. , a developer of a remotely controlled mini-robot integrated with mm-wave miniaturized radars, announced the launch of the Cougar20-H. The mini-robot system is capable of performing dual functions as motion detection as well as probing for breathing of a person in a compound that is remotely controlled...

There's a common misconception in the public sector that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates' plan to cut military spending by $553 billion in 2012 is a decrease in the Pentagon budget. Instead, the U.S. Department of Defense will actually see an increase albeit of less than 1 percent. This...

The Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Network Enterprise Domain (NED) announced the successful completion of the Formal Qualification Test (FQT) of the Soldier Radio Waveform Network Manager (SRWNM) with multiple JTRS radios on January 28, 2011. Completion of the SRWNM FQT is...

RFID Item-Level Tagging (ILT) is being deployed very rapidly in apparel and footwear markets. Item-level passive UHF tags now make up an increasing share of the total world market for RFID tags. The firm forecasts that more than three quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in...

To offset the cost and capacity challenges created by today’s high-bandwidth 3G applications and the accelerating rollout of 4G, mobile operators must find ways to increase overall system capacity. DragonWave Inc.’s introduction of Horizon Compact+ provides operators with a key tool to address lifecycle cost in three critical areas:...

Greg Baker One Size Fits All. Prix Fixe Menus. Assigned Seating. These rigid conditions do not work in the RF/microwave industry. When it comes to developing the highest performance, most reliable, yet cost-effective products for leading-edge applications, design engineers need and want options. Custom Tailoring. A La Carte. Special...

Amphenol RF , a division of the Amphenol corporation, announced the introduction of HD-BNC™, the newest line of small form factor RF connectors designed to support rapidly growing demand for high bandwidth, high reliability interconnection in the broadcast and telecommunications industries. The high-density BNC series (HD-BNC) is based on...

Agilent Technologies Inc. extended its leadership in LTE test with the introduction of dedicated LTE-Advanced signal generation and signal analysis solutions. Both solutions will be showcased at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 14-17 (Hall 1, Stand A46). LTE-Advanced is an evolution of LTE. It is...

On the heels of last weeks DesignCon in Santa Clara, AWR has just released an automated impedance matching module known as iMatch that works seamlessly with the company’s Microwave Office® (MWO) software. Impedance matching is necessary to minimize reflections and achieve the best possible energy transfer from stage to...

The automated load pull was introduced by Maury Microwave Corp. based on an automated slide-screw tuner in 1987. At least 20 years earlier, manual mechanical tuners of various forms were used to match transistor impedances when characterizing and designing amplifiers. Today, the importance of properly matching a transistor module...