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Luso Electronics has opened a new design and manufacturing facility in Luton, UK, that will boost the company's delivery of fully integrated turn-key installations and microwave products to meet increasing demand, primarily from commercial and military satellite communications customers.

Anite, together with HiSilicon has verified Release 10 LTE-Advanced protocols in HiSilicon’s newly developed LTE-A chipset.

Rohde & Schwarz has expanded the functionality of its R&S FSV and R&S FSW signal and spectrum analyzers to also support the IEEE 802.11p wireless standard. The new R&S FSV-K91p and R&S FSW-K91p measurement options are especially designed for IEEE 802.11p compliant signal analysis in V2V applications and ITS.

Selex ES and BAE Systems have signed a teaming agreement that will see the two companies working together to provide Electronic Warfare Operational Support for Eurofighter Typhoon customers.

Corry Micronics has released its filtered micro-d sub adapter product line for direct sale. Don Pavlek, president and CEO of Corry Micronics stated that the company has been manufacturing industry-standard filtered d-sub adapters for over 10 years but customer demand for filtered micro-d sub adapters has increased over the past 12 months.

Technology Corp., a manufacturer of USB controlled and powered test equipment, has added two new models to the itsLab Brick Phase Shifter family, the LPS-402 and LPS-123.

COMSOL Inc., a leading global provider of engineering simulation software, announced the release of COMSOL Multiphysics® 4.4, the latest version of its powerful platform for the modeling and simulation of electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical applications.

Soitec (Euronext) and SunEdison Inc. announced that they have entered into a patent cross-license agreement relating to silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer products. The agreement provides each company with access to the other’s patent portfolio for SOI technologies and ends all outstanding legal disputes between the companies.

The LT3905 from Linear Technology is a fixed frequency, current-mode step-up DC/DC converter designed to bias avalanche photodiodes (APD) in optical receivers. The LT3905 features high side APD current monitoring with over five decades of dynamic range and better than 2% relative accuracy over the 3µA to 3mA range. The maximum APD current is programmed with a single resistor and a fast current limiter with indicator protects the APD during overload conditions.

EADS North America Test and Services, a division of EADS North America Inc., introduces the Racal Instruments™1256L, LXI Switching System.  The company’s switching systems are used to automate functional testing of a wide range of devices, resulting in improved performance for test time, repeatability, and signal fidelity.