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Keithley Instruments Inc. , a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announced a new partnership with The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. The partnership is designed to support research collaboration in the pursuit of nanotechnology and nanoscience solutions for the semiconductor industry's next generation instrumentation and measurement...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that the company is shipping Genesys 2007.08. This latest release of Genesys includes new statistical and electromagnetic analyses that provide affordable, first-pass accuracy for RF and microwave designs, resulting in shorter physical design cycles and faster time to market. The new Genesys features the RF...

Utilizing the ability of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in modern computer graphics cards to stream floating point calculations, Remcom ’s XFdtd full wave 3D EM solver achieves extremely fast calculation speeds via the XStream® Hardware FDTD option. The new Version 3.0 of XStream Hardware FDTD is now based...

The US Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) led a team that included Northrop Grumman Corp. and its partners, Taboada Research Instruments and Cherokee CRC, to design, build and integrate a one-of-a-kind laser positioning system in a Boeing 737 flight simulator to study flight performance while aircrews...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a US Air Force contract to develop the next generation of the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB is an architecture through which military analysts and the intelligence communities can collaborate globally, regardless of their military service affiliation, enabling joint...

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $33 M contract to deliver paveway II Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) GBU-12 kits to the Air Force. Delivery to the US Air Force is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2008. This contract reflects the US Air Force’s continuous need for...

PULLNANO, a project sponsored by the European Commission within the 6 th Framework Program (FP6), has reported several important results related to the future-generation 32 nm and 22 nm CMOS technology platforms, including the realization of a functional CMOS Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) demonstrator built using 32 nm...

Nokia and STMicroelectronics have announced their intention to deepen their collaboration on the licensing and supply of integrated circuit designs and modem technologies for 3G and its evolution. The two companies are also negotiating a plan relating to transferring a part of Nokia’s Integrated Circuit operations to STMicroelectronics. The...

Laird Technologies, designers and suppliers of customized performance-critical products for wireless and other advanced electronics applications, have established a Corporate Research Laboratory in Bangalore, India. The focus of the new laboratory will be in the development of novel materials for use in electronic components and systems. The facility is...

NTT DoCoMo Inc. is testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications, the aim of which is to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300 Mbps over a high speed wireless network. The project has begun with an indoor experiment to test transmission speed using one transmitting and...