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The race to deploy more advanced wireless networks is in high gear in North America, with next generation CDMA networks currently leading, says Allied Business Intelligence (ABI). While both TDMA/ GSM and CDMA operators have picked up the pace in recent months, it is the CDMA operators who currently...

COMPONENTS Ceramic Filter/Decoupling Capacitor This ceramic filter/decoupling capacitor utilizes revolutionary X2Y® technology. The design incorporates common shielding electrodes that form a Faraday Cage around the standard capacitor. The addition of the common electrode creates two matched or balanced capacitors enabling simultaneous line-to-line and line-to-ground filtering. The matched capacitor design...

INDUSTRY NEWS The Connecticut Microwave Corp. acquired the combiner, duplexer and filter product lines of Davicom Technologies Inc. The acquisition included all engineering, tooling, manufacturing process data and work in progress. These products are primarily used in dedicated systems including business, safety and municipal. Littelfuse Inc. has purchased Semitron...

2002 Product Catalog This catalog includes high power passive resistive components featuring terminations, resistors and attenuators in various configurations. Packages are available in chip form, chips with leads and flanged devices. Also featured are standard precision chip packages, thick film circuit capabilities, cable load and power sensors. Barry Industries...

Workshops & Courses NIST/ARFTG Microwave Measurements Short Course Topics: Microwave measurement fundamentals, practical issues such as cables, fixtures, probes and on-wafer measurements, as well as more advanced measurement topics and an overview of wireless test instrumentation and measurement. Site: Washington, DC Dates: December 3-4, 2002 Contact: Dave Walker, NIST,...

News From Washington Raytheon Adds Reliability Engineering Consulting Raytheon Co. is expanding its Reliability Analysis Laboratory (RAL) technical offerings with the incorporation of reliability engineering consulting services. Reliability is a core feature that can make or break the long term success of both products and companies. Design for Reliability...

International Report Surrey Aids Nanotechnology Research with UHV STM/SEM The University of Surrey's (Guildford, Surrey, England) acquisition of an Ultra High Vacuum Scanning Tunnelling Microscope/Scanning Electron Microscope (UHV STM/SEM) is being billed as a central figure to a £1.2 million future nanotechnology research project that is headed up by...

The Commercial Market MEMS Moves Stealthily into the Wireless Sector Driven by innovation, pushed by legislation, and pulled by market need, wireless MEMS will experience strong growth in the next couple of years. In-Stat/ MDR reports that worldwide revenues for wireless MEMS (in the form of RF MEMS components...

Compact and Broadband Microstrip Antennas Kin-Lu Wong John Wiley & Sons Inc. 327 pages; $94.95 ISBN: 0-471-41717-3 Modern portable communication equipment requires compact, broadband microstrip antennas. This book is intended to present new advanced designs of this type of antenna, offering more than 100 advanced microstrip antenna designs and...

The prime requirements of a handheld spectrum analyzer are for it to be lightweight, compact, but with as large a display as possible, and exhibit low power consumption - all within a sturdy housing. These criteria are not easy to fulfill in themselves, so it is an even greater...