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Terabeam/HXI has moved all of its operations to a new facility in the Ward Hill Industrial Park (East), Haverhill, MA. The new location provides increased manufacturing and office space to accommodate recent and projected sales growth in the millimeter-wave communications and radar markets. Terabeam/HXI is a division of Terabeam...

SP2T Terminated Switch The model SWN-218-2DT option NS is a single-pole, two-throw, terminated switch module that offers an insertion loss of 1.2 dB typical, high isolation of 80 dB minimum and an integral TTL driver. This switch is designed for ultra-low video transient, high power and operation between 3.1...

Radio Waves Inc. has announced it will offer two free RWTIs (Radio Waves Technical Institute) this winter. The first free RWTI will take place on Marco Island, FL, February 10th at the Radisson Hotel. The second RWTI will take place in conjunction with the Electro-Comm EC Expo show in...

Under the theme, Telemetry – The Next Generation, this bi-annual international congress and accompanying exhibition considers innovations and the latest technology related to telemetry, telecontrol, instrumentation and recording technologies. The conference will be conducted in English with prestigious keynote lectures, technical speeches and interactive workshops. It will look closely...

Now celebrating its 32nd edition, RF & Hyper Europe 2006 will, for the first time, be organized by Exposium's Industry, Commerce & Technologies department that has taken over from BIRP. Growth, especially on the international front, is expected for the event, which will showcase the technological innovations of some...

Sirenza Microdevices Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Premier Devices Inc. (PDI) for a combination of common stock, cash and debt valued at approximately $72.1 M. PDI designs, manufactures and markets complementary RF components featuring technologies common to existing and planned Sirenza products. With this acquisition, Sirenza, a...

DesignAdvance™ Systems Inc. , an electronic design automation (EDA) and computer aided design (CAD) design-synthesis software developer, announced that it has completed a $3 M second round of funding and has graduated from The Technology Collaborative's Jumpstart program. "We have a field proven solution for PCB design and are...

The ‘information age’ has seen the significant emergence of wireless applications mainly dedicated to improving the quality of people’s lives (especially disabled and senior citizens), improving health, increasing the efficiency of air and road traffic, and bettering the environment. Over the last twenty years there has been a radical...

This article presents the design of a 3.3 to 3.8 GHz LNA, suitable for IEEE 802.16a WiMAX customer premise equipment (CPE) and base transceiver stations (BTS), built on inexpensive FR4 copper laminate epoxy glass board material using the Agilent Technologies ATF-54143 E-pHEMT (enhancement-mode pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor). The...

Recently, more attention has been paid to applications of ultrawideband (UWB) technology on wireless communication. It offers advantages of decreased cost and increased capabilities, compared with other conventional radio technologies. Standards activities for UWB systems are promoting a global perspective for not only technology but also regulations. UWB has...