Articles by Microwave Journal

According to In-Stat, the enterprise WLAN equipment market is at an interesting crossroads. While Symbol and a variety of start-up vendors have pioneered an overlay “WLAN switch” architecture for centralized management of so-called “thin APs,” they are now being increasingly challenged in the market by large Ethernet switch vendors,...

The ZigBee™ Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, announced 20 new member companies, bringing its total membership to more than 150 companies. New member companies include: Contec Co. Ltd.; Creston Electronics Inc.; Digital Sun...

Radio-Frequency and Microwave Communication Circuits Analysis and Design, Second Edition Devendra K. Misra J Wiley Interscience 626 pages; $135 ISBN: 0-471-47873-3 Wireless technology continues to grow at a tremendous rate, with new applications still reported almost daily. The second edition of this book maintains the earlier approach of a...

Raytheon Co. Affordable Ground Based Radar (AGBR) successfully completed all planned system performance testing recently. The final milestone is the culmination of more than four years of working with the Marine Corps to find the best solutions, utilizing engineering innovation, development, integration and test activities sponsored by the Office...

RFID supply chain mandates launched by a few big retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target are now well documented and understood. But many other retailers are finding problems and frustrations when they try to apply RFID in the same way. Why? Because, says ABI Research analyst, Sara Shah, “There...

Industry News Spectrum Control Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that Spectrum Microwave Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, has acquired substantially all of the assets and assumed certain liabilities of Amplifonix Inc . Amplifonix, Philadelphia, PA, is a designer and manufacturer of RF...

Design Application Note This application note is for designers using FPGAs to create easy-to-update products in a wide variety of markets. “Selecting an I/O Architecture for Your FPGA Design” will help engineers clearly understand leading factors that degrade performance in today’s most popular I/O. Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto,...

Northrop Grumman Corp. has begun nationwide deployment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) public key infrastructure (PKI), which provides increased security for its information technology systems. PKI is an IT infrastructure of cryptographic software that generates two large mathematically related numbers used to help identify the user. These...

Raytheon Co.’s low cost Patriot GEM-T missiles destroyed two target drones during a test conducted at White Sands Missile Range, NM. During the test, a Patriot Configuration-3 firing unit successfully intercepted two low flying target drones, destroying both targets. This test went smoothly as planned, with the ground equipment...

Lockheed Martin conducted a successful three-rocket ripple production verification test of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rocket at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The three GMLRS rockets were fired from an MLRS M270A1 launcher, which features an Improved Launcher Mechanical System (ILMS) and an Improved Fire Control...