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Building upon its portfolio of WLAN power amplifiers (PA), Fairchild Semiconductor introduces the FMPA2151, a highly integrated dual-band WLAN power amplifier module optimized to increase performance and reduce PCB board footprint in the latest 802.11a/bg WLAN applications, including notebooks, digital cameras and portable handsets. The high performance FMPA2151 offers...

Providing design engineers with a rugged resistive device specifically designed for transmission line termination at high frequencies, TT electronics IRC Advanced Film Division has developed a microwave/RF termination resistor rated for operation at frequencies up to 40 GHz. Designated the MWR series, the microwave chip resistor is constructed using...

SUSS MicroTec AG has announced the newest member of its renowned IZI Probe ® family, the IZI Probe Card. This new solution integrates the unique IZI Probe technology into an RF probe card specifically designed for production test. As RF and microwave devices become more complex and their operating...

RFMD ® introduced a family of Gallium Nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) high power transistors and is sampling to top-tier cellular infrastructure and WiMAX base station customers. The sampling of these transistors represents the achievement of a baseline 0.5 um GaN high power transistor process by RFMD....

TriQuint Semiconductor , a supplier of microwave and millimeter-wave products for wireless communications infrastructure and the defense industry, introduced new gallium arsenide (GaAs) amplifiers during the IMS MTT-S Exhibition in San Francisco, CA. These new amplifiers are part of TriQuint’s continuing commitment to meet customers’ market-specific high frequency signal...

Rohde & Schwarz introduced the R&S FSUP, the company's first instrument designed exclusively for measuring phase noise and characterizing RF signal sources. The instrument incorporates the company's many years of experience in developing high quality spectrum analyzers and low noise oscillators and synthesizers. Rohde & Schwarz claims this to...

TRAK Microwave Corp. announced that it has been selected by a South Korean Prime Contractor to supply a sophisticated RF/microwave subsystem valued in excess of $4.5 M for use by a critical Korean Navy program. Over the three year period of performance of the contract, TRAK will deliver 122...

Polarization is a basic consideration in the design of any wireless communication system. Most systems use either linear or circular polarization. For a simple description of these two types of wave polarization, consider the illustration shown in Figure 1 . This figure shows an electromagnetic wave approaching an observer....

Dow-Key Microwave Corp. , part of Dover Corporation’s Microwave Products Group, now offers a complete line of 40 GHz RF switches. Designed to operate with high repeatability for both military and ATE applications, the newly introduced family of products provides users with a wide selection of 40 GHz RF...

K&L Microwave Inc. , part of Dover Corporation’s Microwave Products Group®, introduces the bandpass/bandstop diplexer, which efficiently and accurately assists the out-of-band emission levels measurements of wireless basestations (BS). These measurements are conducted during the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification process. "Most current methods of measurement are cumbersome and...