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Cree Inc. announces the sample release of a 90 W, highly efficient GaN HEMT microwave transistor for general-purpose military and industrial applications such as electronic warfare, radar, tactical radios and EMC applications. This transistor provides superior performance over wide bandwidths compared to other technologies such as GaAs MESFET or...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®) announced the introduction of nine single junction and dual junction isolators for wireless infrastructure applications. The new products include the PIxxxxAG-21H line of 30 W reverse power single junction isolators and the PDxxxxAQ-21H line of 100 W reverse power dual junction isolators designed for...

Microphase Corp. announced a high pass filter model HMBC-150HJ with a passband from 0.5 to 18 GHz. The Microphase highpass filter is a breakthrough in filter technology. This miniature device discriminates a desired band of frequencies from all unwanted RF signals below a specified bandpass. The HMBC filter has...

Cree Inc. announces the introduction of the world's first commercially available GaN monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifiers. These two "catalog" MMICs integrate Cree's proven GaN RF transistor technology with a variety of other circuit elements to form fully integrated amplifier circuits. This allows for a dramatic reduction in...

Nitronex , a producer of GaN-on-silicon RF power devices, has developed a product reliability calculator to help customers determine the operating life and peak junction temperature of its gallium nitride RF power transistors. Nitronex’s reliability calculator features pre-programmed device parameters that quickly and easily provide accurate product performance and...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a supplier of high performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, released three new 7-bit UltraCMOS™ Digital Step Attenuators to complement its 50-Ohm DSA line. Building on its high performance predecessors, along with flexible Serial and Parallel interface logic, these new HaRP™-enhanced devices also offer...

IMS 2008 represents the return of the International Microwave Symposium to the east coast after five years on the west coast and beyond (with Hawaii last year). While everyone had Microwaves on their mind, I was hoping that the attendance and participation would come back strong after a below...

Inphi ‘s 1385DX is a broadband 1:8 demultiplexer operating at bit rates from DC to 12.5 Gbps. Its data input is a highly sensitive, low-hysteresis latched comparator with an analog bandwidth of 14 GHz. The 1385DX includes a synchronization circuit that allows two or more DEMUXs to be automatically...

Avago Technologies announced its next-generation quintplexer for mobile handset applications. The company is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. Leveraging the company’s innovative film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology, the miniature ACFM-7103 quintplexer provides unprecedented PCS insertion loss for best in class...

Jazz Semiconductor , a leader in Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) foundry solutions, announced its 0.18-micron Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS platform (SBC18) enables customers to deliver next generation green, energy efficient analog ICs. Jazz's modular process technology offers significant power and efficiency savings over standard CMOS. Jazz SBC18 provides a next-generation...