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Mercury Computer Systems Inc., a provider of commercially developed, application-ready ISR and EW subsystems for defense prime contractors, announced two new small form factor-based solutions with outstanding SWaP characteristics for demanding RF applications: the Echotek® Series RFM-251-XMC tuner and the wideband DCM-V6-XMC digital transceiver.

RFMD’s new RF5652 high-power amplifier (PA) addresses IEEE 802.11b/g/n WiFi (2.4 to 2.5 GHz) for customer premises equipment (CPE) applications.

Virginia Diodes Inc. (VDI) and Modelithics have partnered to provide nonlinear models of VDI’s W band single anode and W band ZBD Schottky diodes.

Agilent Technologies Inc. will demonstrate its industry-first communications test and measurement solutions for LTE-Advanced, LTE, HSPA+, dual-carrier HSDPA, MIMO, multi-standard radio and voice over LTE, along with 2G/3G solutions for R&D, manufacturing and deployment at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, from February 27 through March 1.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., a fabless provider of high-performance radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (IC), announced that it has shipped its billionth CMOS-on-sapphire RFIC and has been designed into the world’s most sought-after smartphones.

Aeroflex Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp., announced that the Aeroflex APM-424(V)5 IFF MK XIIA Mode 5 portable test set has received full certification from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) AIMS International Program Office to support both AIMS 04-900A Option A (KIV-78) and Option B (KIV-77) crypto appliqués.

National Instruments (NI) released its 2012 Automated Test Outlook, which shares findings of the company’s research into the latest test and measurement technologies and methodologies.

Achieving another wireless connectivity milestone, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced the WiLink™ 8.0 product family, a collection of 45-nanometer single-chip solutions that integrate up to five different radios, and set the stage for next-generation mobile Wi-Fi®, GNSS, NFC, Bluetooth® and FM transmit/receive applications.

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced an 11-bit D/A converter that enables cable television and broadband operators to synthesize the entire cable spectrum up to 1 GHz into a single RF port, while consuming a maximum of 1.1 W of power.

Advantech Wireless, a Canadian-based manufacturer of satellite, RF and microwave equipment, and Smartrove, a data offload company, have successfully deployed a large microwave network in the island of Bermuda.