Articles by Microwave Journal

Analog Devices Inc. , a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, recently announced the ADF4157, a new high frequency, fractional-N PLL synthesizer for applications that require low phase noise and ultra-fine-tuning resolution, such as satellite communications, private mobile radios (PMR), instrumentation and wireless base station equipment,...

Microwave Device Technology Corp. (MDT) introduced the MSD7800 series of PIN Diode Microwave Switch Drivers specified to switch in less than 10 ns. The MSD7801 is a single PIN Driver designed for SPST switches and the MSD7802 is designed as a complementary driver for SP2T switches. Other driver configurations...

Hittite Microwave is introducing 24 new products in Q3 2007. The company has introduced 75 new products between Q1 and Q3 2007 and now offers more than 550 standard products. Hittite's standard and custom IC, module and subsystem products address broadband, cellular, microwave and millimeter-wave, military and space market...

7 layers Inc. , a member of the global 7 layers group, selected Rohde & Schwarz , a supplier of test and measurement solutions, to launch a WiMAX™ Radio Conformance test lab in Irvine, CA. With the deployment of commercial WiMAX services based on IEEE 802.16e planned for 2008,...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF modules for telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems, announced the receipt of a new contract from a major wireless telecommunications OEM totaling approximately $1.7 M. This contract covers the design and initial production deliveries for new RF subsystems,...

The European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC) Award for the best paper presented by a young engineer went to: An Active Mixer Tolology for High Linearity and High Frequency Applications by Mingquan Bao and Yinggang Li of Ercisson AB Sweden. Copyright Eu M A. Please Download the full PDF...

The GAAS® Association awarded Student Fellowships to: Valeria Di Giacomo of the University of Ferrara, Italy Diyya Venkatesh of the University of Manchester, UK Federico Fantini of the University of Bologna, Italy...

Below please find Microwave Journal 's annual European Microwave Week new product wrap up. This year's conference and exhibition, which ran from October 8-12 in Munich, Germany, was a worthy successor to last year's show in Manchester, England, with over 300 companies announcing a variety of new products and...

The R&S FSU67 from Rohde & Schwarz extends the upper frequency limit in spectrum analysis from 50 to 67 GHz. This eliminates the need for external harmonic mixers. Featuring a continuous frequency range starting from 20 Hz, the R&S FSU67 also performs harmonics measurements in one go without requiring...

Computer Simulation Technology (CST) announced the acquisition of the LINMIC software package, including source code and all IP rights. LINMIC is an EM-based and layout oriented EDA software package which has been developed since the early 1980s by Rolf Jansen, currently professor at Aachen University of Technology, and further...