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The rapid growth and hunger for information technology and electronic media has created a ‘global village,’ as mass communication, combined with a need and willingness to exchange ideas, has ‘shrunk’ the modern world so that knowledge, expertise, investment and new markets are more easily accessible. Inhabiting a particularly vibrant...

CMOS technology continues to gain market acceptance for high performance applications due to the combination of low cost, high level integration and availability. As a result, more engineers are experimenting with CMOS processes and customizing new methodologies to integrate RF, analog and digital circuits in a single chip. The...

Amplifier Synthesis Software ACS has recently added new amplifier synthesis software to its line of circuit synthesis products. The wizard-like GUI quickly and effortlessly guides the user through the process of entering the specifications for the automatic synthesis of a wide variety of amplifier circuits, including single or multistage...

Thick Film Attenuator The model IMA2391 is a surface-mount thick film 1206 attenuator especially suited to RF/microwave applications and communications-oriented circuitry. This thick film attenuator is operational to 15 GHz in a properly matched continuous 50 Ω system. It is available from 1 to 70 dB in 1 dB...

Application Note “Selecting the Right Switch Technology for Your Application” is a free solid-state switch application note that helps in determining the right switch technology to accessorize and/or complement a system set-up. This application note provides a selection of products currently offered by Agilent to serve as a platform...

UFundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics Rajeev Bansal, Editor CRC Press • 400 pages; $89.95, £49.99 ISBN: 0-8493-7360-3 This book is intended as a desk reference for the fundamentals of engineering electromagnetics. In Chapter 1, Fundamentals of Electromagnetics Revisited, the fundamental aspects of engineering electromagnetics are presented from the view of...

In last year’s November Microwave Journal article on components, Harlan Howe, Jr. authored an insightful and interesting article covering the history of microwave components. A whimsical Figure 1 depicted a dinosaur staring into the antenna of the first stone-age radar, while Figure 4 depicted a lady sitting on top...

Raytheon Co. components played key roles in the destruction of a ballistic missile target in the latest successful flight test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The Raytheon-built Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) intercepted the ballistic missile target in space over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The Raytheon-developed Upgraded Early...

The US Air Force has selected an industry team led by Lockheed Martin to be the Air and Space Operation Center Weapon System Integrator (AOC WSI). Under this multi-year contract, the team will work with the Air Force to standardize, modernize, sustain and transform the more than 20 AOCs...

Harris Corp. has introduced the RF-300U, its Secure Personal Radio (SPR) to the worldwide market. The radio system provides secure, digitized voice and data communications to the individual soldier and fits seamlessly into a variety of network-centric systems, including those based on the highly successful Harris Falcon ® II...