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After a break of 15 years, the RF/microwave community welcomed European Microwave Week back to London with open arms and open minds to make it the most successful event ever. A record breaking total of 4904 attended Europe’s premier microwave event at ExCeL London, October 3-7, 2016.

Thales will be playing a major role in Unmanned Warrior, a large Royal Navy demonstration to determine the feasibility of using unmanned systems in a maritime environment.

Keysight Technologies has collaborated with Virginia Diodes, Inc. (VDI) to create a 1.5 THz measurement solution for Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Anritsu Co. expands its industry leading CPRI test portfolio with the introduction of a BBU Emulation capability for its BTS Master™ MT8220T that saves significant time and cost when verifying LTE cell site operation. 

Swedish company Sivers IMA is developing a SiGe transceiver for applications in the 57 to 71 GHz frequency range. The RFIC, which will be packaged in a 7x7 mm embedded wafer-level ball grid array, will be sampled to key customers during Q1 of 2017.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeter wave, photonic semiconductor products and components, announced the international debut of 27 new high-performance MMIC products at European Microwave Week (EuMW) 2016. Setting new benchmarks for performance, quality and reliability, these new products comprise the industry’s most extensive portfolio of DC to 100 GHz MMICs for test and measurement, SATCOM, aerospace and defense, wired broadband and industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) applications.

Ampleon announced the modular M2 RF Energy reference system to replace magnetrons in the industrial heating market. This technology replacement is driven by the need for a longer service lifetime of the RF generators, to reduce operating costs and minimize the downtime of heating systems.

Keysight Technologies unveiled a signal analyzer with continuous sweep frequency coverage from 3 Hz to 110 GHz, raising the bar for millimeter wave signal analysis.

Arralis, the world leading W band device manufacturer, has added a number of new MMIC devices to its extensive product range. The new power amplifier, image cancellation mixer and variable attenuator come in response to new advance system requirements.

Based on their 0.15 µm GaN on SiC process (QGaN15), Qorvo has released a family of GaN transistors in die form, with performance to 25 GHz for advanced applications in communications, radar and defense RF systems.