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TRAK Microwave Receives OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 Re-Certification

TRAK Microwave, a Smiths Microwave company, located in Tampa, FL, a leader in technically differentiated electronic and radio frequency products that connect, protect and control critical systems for the wireless telecommunications, aerospace, defense, space, medical, rail, test and industrial markets is pleased to announce that it has received OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 re-certification for its safety procedures and it’s environmental quality management.


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Low PIM Coaxial Switches Line

Low PIMRFMW Ltd. announces application and sales support for a new line of low PIM (Passive Intermodulation) coaxial switches from Radiall, a global leader in design, development and manufacturing of innovative interconnect solutions. Radiall developed a broad series of switches including the following configurations: SPDT, DPDT, SP4T, and SP6T. These configurations are available with either SMA (up to 18 GHz) or N (up to 12.4 GHz) type connectors.


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Highly Integrated DC/DC Converter: LTC3107

LTC3107Linear Technology announces the LTC3107, a highly integrated DC/DC converter designed to extend the life of a primary battery in low power wireless system networks (WSNs). The LTC3107 combines energy harvesting and power management capability with a primary battery cell to extend the battery’s usable lifetime. The LTC3107 harvests energy from thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and thermopiles when these sources are available.


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Ferrite Chip Power Inductors: MDT Series

Toko MDT2012 PR PhotoRichardson RFPD Inc. announces immediate availability and full design support capabilities for the MDT Series of multilayer ferrite chip power inductors from TOKO. TOKO's proprietary architecture creates extremely robust, magnetically-shielded, multilayer ferrite power inductors offer low resistance and high current handling in miniature footprint, low profile sizes ranging from 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.0 mm to 2.5 x 2.0 x 1.2 mm.


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Portfolio of High-Isolation DC-to-DC Converters

RECOM DC DC Converter PR PhotoRichardson RFPD, Inc. announces availability and full design support capabilities for a large portfolio of high-isolation DC-to-DC converters from RECOM Power, Inc. (RECOM). Designed specifically for insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) systems, the converters' asymmetric outputs of +15 V and -9 V make them ideal to power IGBT drivers, replacing the need for two converters.


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Band Down Converter: STC-20-10-S1

STC-20-10-S1Model STC-20-10-S1 is a W band full waveguide band down converter with an RF range of 75 to 110 GHz. The full waveguide band down converter requires a +10 dBm LO signal in the frequency range of 12.5 to 18.33 GHz. It converts 75 to 110 GHz input signal to 10 MHz to 1.6 GHz output signal with a typical conversion gain of 20 dB. The required DC input is +12 Vdc / 450 mA.


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Five Switching Modules and Chassis

Pickering Interfaces, a leading provider of signal switching and conditioning solutions,was excited to announce the launch of five new switching modules and chassis at AUTOTESTCON 2013. These products included a new 3U 16Amp PXI Switching Module, a 5 Amp PXI Power Multiplexer Module, a 32-Channel PCI Digital I/O Card, an upgrade to its popular LXI Modular Chassis and an upgrade to one of their PXI Microwave Multiplexers.


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Multiplexer: SP8T and SP16T

Pickering Interfaces, a leading provider of signal switching and conditioning solutions, is expanding its range of PXI RF solid state 6GHz switching solutions with the introduction of two new multiplexer (MUX) versions (model #40-883). These versions include a SP8T (8:1) MUX occupying two PXI slots and a SP16T (16:1) MUX occupying three PXI slots.


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