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NXP Semiconductors and its partners showcased the progress of secure intelligent transport with live demonstrations of platooning on the roads of Munich.

This wireless BMS concept car, developed by Linear’s design partner LION Smart, combines Linear’s highly accurate battery stack monitors with its SmartMesh® wireless mesh networking products in a BMW i3, replacing the traditional wired connections between the battery packs and the battery management system.

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS), a global wireless and broadcast infrastructure specialist, is adding four new passive antennas to its suite of complete end-to-end solutions for wireless in-building communications requirements.

Filter start-up Resonant Inc. has secured additions to the company's design backlog: three new duplexers with an existing customer and a quadplexer with a new customer, a fabless supplier of power amplifiers and switches for handset RF front-ends.

Ethertronics announced two new vehicle-to-everything (V2X) smart antennas, designed to enhance connected car antenna performance, reliability and range. The antennas were introduced at Electronica, November 8-11 in Munich.

AR RF/Microwave has appointed John Kim vice president of corporate operations. In this position, Kim will manage operations of two AR divisions, AR Europe and AR Modular RF. Kim will also manage and expand AmRep, under which products made by third party manufacturers are branded and marketed by AR.

Echodyne Corp. announced the first ever successful test of an airborne Detect and Avoid (DAA) radar on a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (sUAV).  Echodyne’s radar was mounted on a small commercial drone which flew multiple missions below 400’ over a period of several days. The drone was of a size, payload, and range well suited for package delivery, infrastructure inspection and agricultural monitoring.

San-tron Inc., a leading manufacturer of RF and microwave coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, has announced the appointment of a new Northeast regional sales manager.

Skyworks Solutions has launched a portfolio of CATV infrastructure products for DOCSIS 3.1 and EuroDOCSIS 3.1, including the first commercially available linear amplifiers in Europe that operate to 1218 MHz.

TEGAM Inc., a leading supplier of innovative RF Power measurement instruments, recently released a High Power RF Calibration System that for directional power sensors and RF watt meters from virtually all manufacturers including Bird Technologies. The system operates from 250 kHz to 3 GHz and up to 250W with combined uncertainty less than 1 percent. This frequency range covers the ISM, Land Mobile Radio and common mobile phone bands.