Articles by Microwave Journal

In a contract, worth €32 million, EADS Secure Networks has signed a four-year contract with the French National Gendarmerie (Military Police) to modernize its RUBIS secure radio communications network. Thus enabling the Gendarmerie to ensure long-term viability of its radio communications network, benefit from new applications and better respond...

Nokia and Cable & Wireless have signed an International Frame Agreement for the supply of GSM and WCDMA 3G radio and core networks, which will enable the operator to gain significant cost savings in the operation of these networks and will allow it to offer the most advanced mobile...

Unity Wireless Corp. , a developer of wireless systems and coverage-enhancement solutions, announced that it has completed a US $2.2 million three-year debt financing by institutional investors. Unity Wireless plans to use the proceeds from the transaction for general corporate purposes. Unity Wireless issued US $2.2 million of 8...

To expand its aerospace capabilities in Asia, Thales has opened new regional headquarters in Singapore. The new 6000 m 2 site will house around 150 employees and this move to a new, bigger and more efficient facility is seen as providing the capability to address the rising number of...

Industry status as of March 2006 The SIA has released revenue numbers for January 2006 of $17.42 billion dollars (raw numbers not 3 month moving average). The January numbers are up from $17.34 billion dollars in January of 2005 and represents a 0.5 percent growth month over month. Figure...

High Power Amplifier

The model XP1017 is a gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) two-stage high power amplifier that integrates an on-chip temperature-compensated output power detector. Using 0.15 micron gate length GaAs pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (PHEMT) device model technology, this device covers the 30 to 36 GHz frequency bands and delivers 33 dBm OIP3 and 16 dB small-signal gain. The balanced design and Lange couplers help achieve good input and output match. This amplifier is well suited for millimeter-wave point-to-point radio, LMDS and SATCOM applications.

Mimix Broadband Inc.,
Houston, TX (281) 988-4600,
www.mimixbroadband.com.

Wideband Miniature Filter

The model 5BM-3.0G-2.0G-SX11 is a wideband miniature filter centered at 3 GHz with a minimum 1 dB passband of 2 to 4 GHz. This filter offers 0.8 dB of insertion loss, a VSWR of 2:1 (max.) and 40 dB of attenuation at 1 GHz and 5 to 10 GHz. This model is available with SMA or PIN connections. Size: 0.38" × 0.38" × 1.5".

Reactel Inc.,
Gaithersburg, MD (301) 519-3660,
www.reactel.com.

Industry News QUALCOMM Inc. announced that the company has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc. , a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company. Berkana is a provider of complementary metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits to the wireless industry. The addition of Berkana’s RF CMOS intellectual property, design portfolio and engineering...

Northrop Grumman Corp. and the US Air Force successfully completed flight testing of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), a significant milestone toward providing warfighters an advanced way to share critical information by communicating over airborne networks at high altitudes. BACN is an Internet protocol-based airborne communications relay and...

A Raytheon Co. Precision Attack Air-to-Surface Missile (PAASM) was successfully launched from a rotary-winged, unmanned aerial vehicle (UH-1) at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The missile was fired from a standard M299 digital launcher and met planned test objectives. Upon receiving the launch command, the PAASM missile successfully ignited...