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NDK (Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co. Ltd.) announced the opening of a new sales engineering and customer support office in California. NDK America-Silicon Valley is located at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite 202, Milpitas, CA 95035. The company can be reached by phone at (408) 428-0800, fax (408) 428-0801 or e-mail...

Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT), a business unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a digital microwave technology provider, has won an order from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The commonwealth’s Office of Administration, Public Safety Radio, has issued a purchase order applying funding from the federal Public Safety Interoperable...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the N6784A 4-quadrant general-purpose source measure unit (SMU), the newest member of the N6700 Modular Power System family. The N6784A SMU offers advanced sourcing and measurement capabilities in four quadrants, required for many general-purpose electronic test applications. “General-purpose applications span a large number of industries...

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. has introduced a new, lighter-weight RG coaxial cable for aircraft communication and navigation systems, providing significant weight savings without compromising performance. When compared to standard RG coaxial cables, these new cables reduce operating costs because they are as much as 20 percent lighter with...

Anaren Inc. announced that Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas (EMA), a business region of Avnet Inc., will now carry Anaren’s new family of Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules in the Americas. “We’re very excited to offer our new AIR module line to Avnet’s extensive customer base,” said Mark Bowyer, the...

Passive Plus Inc. now offers an Extended Working Voltage capability for the company's core Hi Q/low ESR Capacitor line Available in 6 case sizes: .055" x.055" extended up to 300 W VDC; .110" x .110" extended up to 1,000 W VDC; .225"x.225" extended up to 5,000 W VDC; .390"...

While somewhat smaller than the MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the European Microwave Week or EuMW is the largest conference and exhibition in Europe exclusively dedicated to our industry. With its delegates in well-tailored suits, espresso served during coffee breaks and sit-down lunches, this is an event that has...

Microwave (MW) and radio frequency (RF) applications such as advanced radars, missiles, communication, electronic warfare and Electronic Support Measures (ESM) act as battlefield force multipliers and are thus the focus of research and technology (R&T) activities of many ministries of defence throughout the world. With the demand for new...

AWR Corp. , a leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced the release and immediate availability of a new process design kit (PDK) supporting the Cree Inc. high-power gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) foundry process. The new Cree/AWR PDK enables...

Wavestream Corp. announced it has received a $19 M purchase order from General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies for the company’s high power 50 W Ka-band solid-state amplifiers to support US Army and Marine Corps satellite communications systems. Product deliveries are scheduled starting in October 2010. “This order is the result...