Articles by Microwave Journal

LitePoint Corp. , a provider of advanced wireless test solutions, announced that it has completed a round of private equity funding from Sequoia Capital. LitePoint Corp., founded by semiconductor and wireless veterans, is attuned to the design process, systems development and manufacturing needs of wireless chipset vendors (e.g., Atheros,...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, unveiled a new and highly integrated 2.5 GHz WiMAX front-end module (FEM), the SKY77258, enabling mobile devices such as cellular handsets, smart phones, notebooks and personal digital assistants. Skyworks’ differentiated solution leverages the...

American Microwave Corp.: 40/45 dB, Miniature, 2 to 18 GHz, DLVA The model number: LVD-218-50 is a 40/45 dB, Miniature, 2 to 18 GHz (other frequency bands available), DC-coupled, detector log video Amplifier. Visit American Microwave Corp.'s Vendor View --> American Microwave Corp.: Solid-state Detector Log Video Amplifier The...

Strategy Analytics analysts, speaking at the plenary sessions of both the IEEE CSIC Symposium and the Power Amplifier Symposium, reaffirmed that GaAs technologies will continue to dominate the radio front-end in cellular handsets, despite competition from silicon technologies. The move toward 3G and beyond, coupled with the need to...

Barry Industries announced the company's participation within the Modelithics CLR Library. The Modelithics CLR Library is a substrate – and part value – scalable surface-mount model library that now allows designers to de-embed pad parasitic effects, enabling user-specified pad effects to be applied. Barry featured products are scalable resistors...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it plans to maintain membership in the PXI Systems Alliance to support the customers of two recent acquisitions, Acqiris and PXIT. Acqiris and PXIT are members of the Alliance. "This does not alter our direction and commitment to LXI," said Scott Sampl, vice president...

Untitled Page First Things First: In the week ending March 23, 2007, the RF to Light 100 rose 2.3%, YTD + 4.0% at 2557. NASDAQ + 3.2%, YTD + 1.4% at 2449. While Ericsson’s revenues increased 17% at fiscal year end (stock up 9%), Motorola’s stock dropped 5% on...

Untitled Page First Things First: In the week ending March 16, 2007, the RF to Light 100 dropped 0.1%, YTD +2% at 2500. NASDQ down 0.6%. Qualcomm (up 10%) settled some of the lawsuits with Broadcom (up 1%). In the News: Another rough week on Wall Street. New U.S....

Published March 20, 2007 From: Luis Abril, Alcatel Alenia Space Dear Harlan, For an RF application, which SPDT is better: an absorptive one or a reflective one? Dear Luis, In general it is always better if everything in a system is matched in all conditions. However, an absorbtive switch...

All businesses in an increasingly competitive market must continually look for ways to offer real value to their customers, particularly by building web sites that go beyond a simple presentation of product information. A web site built with customer benefit in mind will not just contain product information; it...