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Jazz Releases Advanced MOS Varactor Model Libraries

Jazz Semiconductor®, a developer of analog-intensive mixed-signal (AIMS) foundry solutions, announced the release of MOSVAR model libraries in its 0.13 and 0.18-micron AIMS technology platforms targeting wireless and other communication products. The new model improves simulation accuracy reducing product development time and is integrated as a standard component in...
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SELEX S&AS Wins First Order for PicoSAR

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (SELEX S&AS) has received an important order from a North European country for the supply of its new PicoSAR lightweight airborne ground surveillance radar. The order is of particular importance as it is the first for PicoSAR, with discussions also underway with various potential...
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EADS Signs Aerospace MoU with Kazakhstan

EADS, a leader in aerospace, defense and related services, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kazyna Fund for Sustainable Development for a strategic partnership in the development of the aerospace industry and related services in Kazakhstan. This agreement envisages feasibility studies for the financing of aerospace...
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Fairchild Opens R&D Center in India

Fairchild Semiconductor, a global supplier of high performance products that drive energy efficiency, has opened a design center in Pune, India. The new center will be responsible for designing and developing the company's new generation of power MOSFETs and IGBT technology to support popular applications. As an application-driven, solution-based...
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Microwave Journal 50 Year Retrospective Series: A Few Personal Remarks on the Evolution of Computational Electromagnetics

Introduction I remember reading the Microwave Journal as a graduate student in the Microwave Lab at McGill University in Montreal in 1969. Then, as now, the Microwave Journal was filled with articles, observations and product information on microwave and wireless hardware, although today there are also articles on microwave...
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Wateen Telecom-Pakistan Awards Motorola WiMAX Order

Motorola Inc. has agreed to supply Wateen Telecom-Pakistan with 198,000 end-user WiMAX customer premises equipment (CPE) devices for both indoor and outdoor use. Complementing the company’s nationwide WiMAX network, which is built using Motorola’s 802.16e WiMAX and IMS solutions, the CPE units will provide subscribers in Pakistan with unprecedented...
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ELVA-1 Forges New Links in Hungary

Recent European regulations — the CEPT channel plan [ECC Recommendation (05) 07] for 71-76 GHz and 81 to 86 GHz frequency band radios — has opened up European Union wireless fronthaul, backhaul and network extension markets for point-to-point fixed wireless systems. Consequently, ELVA-1 Millimeter Wave Division has begun offering...
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