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Tektronix Inc. and Fluke Corp. announced that they have donated $100,000 to DeVry University for a five-year scholarship program. In the program, $20,000 will be awarded each year in $1,000 scholarships to 20 students each in the name of Tektronix and Fluke. "We are very pleased to be able...

AWR® Corp. , a leader in high frequency EDA, announced AWR Connected™ for Cadence® Allegro®, which enables PCB and RF co-design, simplifying the design process for high performance printed circuit board (PCB) design and significantly shortening cycle times. AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro is an interface between Cadence’s Allegro...

Short range wireless ICs, including Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi have been widely adopted in computing, communication and consumer products in recent years. "The market for short range wireless ICs is booming in 2010," says ABI Research analyst Celia Bo. "Total shipments will increase approximately 18 percent compared...

October 2010 HSPICE Enhances Speed and Capacity By David Vye, MWJ Last month, Synopsys announced HSPICE® Precision Parallel (HPP) multi-threading technology would be a significant enhancement to the next release of the analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator HPICE 2010. The new capability, which utilizes a scalable multi-core engine, delivers up to...

The investment of €1.5 M has enabled EADS Defence & Security (DS) to extend the clean-room capacity of its Microwave Factory (MWF) in Ulm, Germany, for the production of microwave modules, to approximately 2,000 square meters. The extension increases the factory’s high-tech capacity for specialized high-performance electronics, e.g. next...

Eutelsat Communications has selected Thales Alenia Space to build a 40-transponder Ku-band satellite enabling a 50 percent increase in capacity operated at its 21.5° East location in geostationary orbit. Scheduled for launch in the third quarter of 2012, the satellite will replace Eutelsat's W6 craft at a core neighborhood...

Investment holding company Sekunjalo Investment Ltd. , led by its chairman M. Iqbal Survé, has become a new strategic partner to Saab AB and has taken up a shareholding in Saab South Africa (PTY) Ltd. It is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and a majority black-owned and black-controlled...

Orbit Technologies Ltd. has received an order to supply Telespazio , a joint venture of Finmeccanica and Thales, with high performance stabilized marine satellite communications systems to be installed onboard oil and gas industry platforms worldwide. This latest venture brings the orders from Telespazio for Orbit systems to $1.1...

Radiall has introduced its new cost-effective ECG cable assemblies and SpO2 interface cables for OEMs that provide patient monitoring equipment in the global marketplace. In addition to the standard range, these cables and connectors can be customized and designed in a wide variety of cable, connector and contact, and...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF devices and integrated subsystems, has announced the release of its EWV0800YF series of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) with dual outputs with total frequency coverage of 7.3 to 8.8 GHz and 3.65 to 4.4 GHz. Based on 2 μm InGaP/GaAs heterojunction-bipolar-transistor (HBT)...