Pat Hindle, MWJ Editor

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With 5G mmWave technology already deploying in the US, I was glad to oversee the EDI CON USA 2018 5G Symposium in Oct that included a full afternoon of sessions including topics such as the best RF architectures for 5G, semiconductor tradeoffs for 5G mmWave devices, antenna modeling, simulation of fixed wireless access systems, design of a 28 GHz filter and silicon active antennas for mmWave applications.

Qualcomm and Ericsson first to complete 3GPP-compliant 5G NR Sub-6 GHz and mmWave OTA Call with a Mobile Device.

At its annual conference, COMSOL announced the latest version of COMSOL Multiphysics Version 5.4, which in addition to two new products provides performance improvements and additional modeling tools.

SweGaN is a spin-off from Linköping University that recently announced a new GaN-on-SiC HEMT heterostructure, QuanFINE ™, built on the concept of a GaN−SiC hybrid material that combines the high-electron-velocity thin GaN with the high-breakdown bulk SiC. According to their web site, the structure is realized by the company’s unique hot-wall MOCVD process and shown good result in both high-frequency and power transistors. 

Many of us have seen exciting applications for radar to see through walls, detect cancer, or scan people for hidden weapons. But much of this technology has to date been too expensive for wide use and adoption in commercial markets. Vayyar is changing all of that with their low cost radar on chip.

I recently covered how cloud services are helping accelerate design services with virtual CAE, and now we have seen an announcement from GradientOne about accelerating hardware utilization and providing insights into test data using their cloud platform.

OnScale is a leader in Cloud computer aided engineering (CAE), running multi-physics solvers on its Cloud HPC platform running on Amazon Web Servers. Their platform helps engineers to accelerate innovation for next-generation products such as 5G smartphones, IoT, biomedical devices and driverless car products by greatly reducing the solving time with massive computing power and using optimized algorithms.

I recently attended the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Philadelphia. As mentioned in our wrap up, while the theme of IMS2018 was Microwaves, Medicine and Mobility, the real theme was 5G, 5G and 5G.

This week two separate news items, one from Tektronix/IEMN and the other from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), both announced development of 100 Gbps “wireless fiber” solutions. Each took a different route with Tektronix and IEMN (a French research laboratory) demonstrating a single carrier wireless link with a 100 Gbps data rate signal at 252 to 325 GHz per the recently published IEEE 802.15.3d standard while NTT used a new principle, Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) multiplexing at 28 GHz  with MIMO technology.