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2Q-2010 proved to be a very solid quarter for the mobile handset market with 321.2 million handsets shipped, of which WCDMA handsets made up 31 percent. Growth was 5.9 percent Quarter-on-Quarter and 19.4 percent Year-on-Year. “Mobile phone users seem to be shrugging off their economic woes and going handset...

AWR Corp. , a leader in high frequency EDA, announced the commercial release/availability of its 2010 Microwave Office® (MWO) design suite. The 2010 release offers new functionality and tools to increase productivity for high frequency monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC), MIC, RF printed circuit board (PCB) and module designers....

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On July 22, M/A-COM Technology Solutions (M/A-COM Tech) celebrated its 60th year of innovation with a picnic for employees outside their headquarters in Lowell, MA. After merging with Mimix earlier this year, they have been on a roll and are now running 3 shifts in their manufacturing facility as...

Rancore Technologies Ltd. has selected picoChip ’s wireless baseband technology for the development of 4G base stations for rollout in India’s next-generation networks. The company uses picoChip’s picoArray PC203 multi-core digital signal processor, which delivers the performance needed in demanding applications such as carrier-class wireless infrastructure for WiMAX and...

Link Microtek , the specialist supplier of microwave and RF components and systems, has been appointed as UK representative for HBH Microwave GmbH , the German manufacturer of power amplifiers and custom specified components. The agreement was signed with Globes Elektronik, which is responsible for worldwide sales and marketing...

Euroradar and Eurofighter GmbH , together with their industrial partners, have begun full scale development of latest generation Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar. Euroradar is a multi-national consortium lead by SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, alongside EADS Defence Electronics and Indra. The target in-service date for the new...

AtlanTecRF , the UK-based manufacturer of microwave and RF components and equipment, has announced the appointment of Atlantese , as exclusive representative for the Netherlands, Belgium and Eastern Europe. Patrick Gardner, who is responsible for sales activity at Atlantese and brings a wealth of knowledge of RF and microwave...

The compact R&S DST200 RF diagnostic chamber makes it easy for developers of wireless devices such as mobile phones to perform reproducible radiated RF measurements on the workbench. The benchtop chamber simulates conditions that approximate free space and features a 700 MHz to 6 GHz broadband test antenna especially...

Figure 1 Antenna measurement system in an anechoic chamber. Antenna measurements involve recording the radiated coupling between a measurement antenna and the antenna under test (AUT). Figure 1 shows an example set up inside an anechoic chamber, in which the measurement antenna acts as the transmitter and the AUT...