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CSR Awarded BRTF Status by Bluetooth SIG

August 14, 2008

CSR announced that it has achieved recognition by the Bluetooth SIG as a Bluetooth Recognized Test Facility (BRTF). CSR’s test facilities are now regarded as having developed to the point where it can entirely test its own firmware, rather than using an external testing house. BRTF status means that...

Tektronix Accelerates Arbitrary Waveform Generators

August 13, 2008

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Tektronix Inc. , a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the new AWG7000B and AWG5000B Series of Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWG) (visit www.tek.com/sources). The AWG B series provides a 20 percent performance boost over many of the prior AWG instruments and continues to be the world’s fastest...

New RF Conducted Immunity System From AR Tests To All Automotive Specifications

August 12, 2008

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Model CI00401 is a fully self-contained system

STMicroelectronics to Sponsor EMPC 2009

August 12, 2008

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STMicroelectronics , one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers and a world leader in MEMS and power ICs, is to be the principal sponsor of the 17 th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference & Exhibition (EMPC 2009). The company will work with the organizer, the Italian chapter of the...

Rohde & Schwarz and Qasara Collaborate on LTE

August 11, 2008

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Rohde & Schwarz and Qasara have announced a joint programme to verify inter-operability between Rohde & Schwarz’s 3GPP LTE Virtual Tester and Qasara’s LTE compliant UE protocol stack. The collaboration provides an independent verification of a complete, end to end, LTE protocol stack. LTE is set to enable the...

Symmetricom Announces PCI Time and Frequency Processor Modules

August 11, 2008

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Symmetricom Inc. , a leader in precise time and frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation networks, announced its latest PCI time and frequency processor modules, the bc635PCI-V2 and the GPS referenced bc637PCI-V2, providing precise time and frequency references to host computers and...

Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence

August 6, 2008

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As Rohde & Schwarz celebrates its 75th Anniversary, Microwave Journal’s European Editor, Richard Mumford, asks president and CEO, Michael Vohrer to trace how the company evolved from a two-man operation to a world leader with a global presence. He outlines the political impact of German reunification and the expansion of the EU, explains the importance of investment in R&D, academic institutions and its staff before looking forward to the next 75 years.

ITU Invitation to Marconi Celebration

July 31, 2008

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According to the story told in 1968 by a senior citizen of Salvan, in 1895 Guglielmo Marconi carried out some of his earliest wireless experiments in the vicinity of this picturesque village of the Swiss Alps. The IEEE duly acknowledged this event, and granted a “Historical Milestone in Electrical...

Aeroflex Announces Advanced Field Tests with the Handheld 3500 Test Set

July 31, 2008

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Aeroflex announced the release of new software for the 3500 1 GHz handheld radio test set to support Survey Technologies Field Test 6 Software. Now, users of the 3500 series can improve and automate the acquisition, analysis and display of signal strength across a given terrain, as well as...