Articles by Microwave Journal

Holzworth Instrumentation announced the release of new component products at IMS 2008. The company is a global provider of high performance, ultra low phase noise RF synthesizers. The addition of low phase noise components to the product line provides engineers with components that are 100 percent tested for extremely...

Jackson Labs Technologies Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge test & measurement equipment, announced the availability of its breakthrough product FireFly-II. FireFly-II is an extremely small COTS Global Positioning System Disciplined Oscillator (GPSDO) that has been ruggedized to meet military requirements, in particular the DOD new and...

Tyco Electronics M/A-COM announced a new RoHS compliant 2.4 to 2.5 GHz Linear Power Amplifier for 802.11b/g MIMO WLAN applications that require high gain, high efficiency and small size all at a low cost. The MAAP-008516 is a three-stage power amplifier designed specifically for linear 802.11b/g applications and is...

NMDG featured a large signal network analyser (LSNA), an instrument and method for HF component characterisation. Its unique capability is the accurate measurement of the voltage and current waveforms at the ports of any component under realistic high-frequency stimuli, going from simple to complex signals, even in non-50 Ohm...

Talley Communications Corp. , a distributor of wireless communications infrastructure and mobile products, announced the opening of a new warehouse in New Braunfels, TX. This facility follows Talley’s Dallas facility, which opened in early March. The focus of this location is to service the wireless contractors and carriers in...

In response to the ever-increasing cost associated with developing new process nodes, Cascade Microtech announced a new initiative to develop integrated measurement systems for on-wafer semiconductor device characterization and process development. This innovative approach results in increased performance and accuracy as well as better, faster service and support, and...

Inphi ‘s 1385DX is a broadband 1:8 demultiplexer operating at bit rates from DC to 12.5 Gbps. Its data input is a highly sensitive, low-hysteresis latched comparator with an analog bandwidth of 14 GHz. The 1385DX includes a synchronization circuit that allows two or more DEMUXs to be automatically...

Cree Inc. announces the introduction of the world's first commercially available GaN monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifiers. These two "catalog" MMICs integrate Cree's proven GaN RF transistor technology with a variety of other circuit elements to form fully integrated amplifier circuits. This allows for a dramatic reduction in...

Computer Simulation Technology (CST) announces ground-breaking performance enhancement to the market and technology leading CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS) time domain solver. A parallelization based on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) has been implemented in version 2009, which enables the solution to extremely large problems by employing computer clusters,...

Anritsu Co. introduces PowerMax software that provides an enhanced visualization of instrument display and simplified remote control of Anritsu’s ML2490A series power meters via Ethernet. The new remote user interface can configure the single sensor input ML2495A and dual sensor input ML2496A so that results and traces can be...