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Welcome to the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, which will take place in Anaheim, CA, May 23-25, 2010 ( www.RFIC2010.org ). Our Symposium, held in conjunction with the IEEE MTTS International Microwave Symposium (IMS), opens Microwave Week 2010, the largest worldwide RF/microwave meeting of the year. The...

Since its inception in 1972, the Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG) has worked to create a constructive forum and voice for the community of RF and microwave test engineers—both test instrumentation end users and vendors alike. Through its various conferences, workshops and training courses, the organization endeavors to keep...

The Microwave Application Seminars (MicroApps)—scheduled for the Anaheim Convention Center, May 25-27, 2010, as part of IEEE-IMS/MTT-S—are a series of concise technical presentations given by exhibitors that are distinct and separate yet complementary to the IEEE technical sessions. MicroApps are engineering topics of interest to the microwave community and...

Mobile Devices Dual-band Dave “Dual-band” Dave works for a large consumer electronics device manufacturer (think Handsets, Smartphones, PDAs, Cellular PC Datacards, Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and cellular modems). He is part of the RF design group. The company buys RF front-end components from various manufacturers (to keep their options...

Free time is hard to account for during Microwave Week. The IMS, RFIC, ARFTG conferences, the microwave exhibition and the various social events keep most attendees quite busy. This year’s show in Anaheim probably won’t be any different. In order to be more efficient with your time, the staff...

It has been a tumultuous couple of years for M/A-COM. The company has been split up and sold off to several different companies by Tyco Electronics and Cobham plc. This iconic company, dubbed "The First Name in Microwave," has been reborn as M/A-COM Technology Solutions (M/A-COM Tech) under its...

Phased-array radars, wireless communication transmitters, including public safety radio networks, medical instrumentation and other various traditional civil and military applications, require demanding performance of microwave power transistors. The broadband operating capability is always demanding in various RF circuits and subsystems. Wireless systems deliver high data rate signals to provide...

Two-arm spiral antennas usually have wideband characteristics (these antennas usually have constant beam width and circular polarization over a broad range of frequencies), 1,2 and thus are suitable for communicating (transmitting and receiving) over bands of frequencies (multiple channels). At lower frequencies, for a given size, these antennas tend...

Frequency synthesis is the cornerstone of all RF and microwave systems. Often dictated by specifications that push technological, spatial and economic envelopes, the design and implementation of frequency sources can often run into hurdles that force performance, schedule, or cost compromises. Hittite Microwave has one of the most comprehensive...

Base station (BTS) RF front-end design has in the past put more emphasis on performance compared to cost and size. However, to meet the evolving needs of the wireless infrastructure industry, BTS designers today are facing more challenges. Achieving the desired RF performance is only part of the equation...