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NEWS FROM WASHINGTON US Army Lets Long Range Advanced Surveillance Systems Contract DRS Technologies has received a contract to provide Long Range Advance Scout Surveillance Systems (LRAS3) for the US Army's High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles. The $8.7 M contract was awarded by Raytheon System Company's Electronic Systems operation...

WEB UPDATE Pulse Generators & Drivers This Web site provides data sheets and pricing for 500 models of pulse generators, laser diode drivers, impulse generators, amplifiers and delay generators, with rise times as low as 40 ps, PRF to 250 MHz and amplitudes to 3000 V. The site also...

WORKSHOPS & COURSES MEMS for Communications ­ From Concept to Product * Topics: The latest information on MEMS technology and applications in communications, with specific information on CoventorWare™ software products and intellectual property available from the company for rapid development and integration of MEMS into products. * Site: Schaumburg,...

PRODUCT FEATURE A MMIC Power Amplifier Package for OC-192 Applications StratEdge San Diego, CA StratEdge was contracted by TriQuint Semiconductor, a manufacturer of GaAs MMIC components, for package, assembly and test services for one of their newest devices. The resulting product, a wideband, medium power amplifier (MPA) with automatic...

PRODUCT FEATURE A Linear LDMOS Amplifier for EDGE GSM Applications Philips Semiconductors Foxboro, MA Cellular infrastructure providers are ramping up plans to augment present GSM systems with a new Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution (EDGE) GSM system. This new format adds additional challenges to the design of the...

PRODUCT FEATURE An Automated Assembly Tool for Precision, High Speed RF Die-attach Applications Palomar Technologies Vista, CA As telecommunications and information processing have exploded over the last 20 years, the need for extremely accurate, high yield microchip assembly solutions has shifted from a low volume aerospace and defense industry...

TUTORIAL Microwave Temperature Compensated Detector Design for Wide Dynamic Range Applications Fundamentals on RF detection, Schottky diode matching techniques, temperature compensation schemes and video output system configurations are reviewed. Germán Torregrosa-Penalva, Alberto Asensio-López, Jaime Lluch-Ladrón de Guevara and Francisco Javier Ortega-González Departamento de Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones, E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación,...

PRODUCT FEATURE A Compact Capacitance Meter for High Speed Production Test Agilent Technologies Santa Rosa, CA The Agilent 4288A capacitance meter is designed to perform high speed measurements of capacitance while taking up less room in an automated test equipment (ATE) system and providing a high level of accuracy....

PRODUCT FEATURE Broadband Solid-state Class A Power Amplifiers for 1 to 11 GHz Applications Milmega Ltd. Isle of Wight, UK With microwave power amplifiers finding applications in such diverse and demanding fields as communications, medical systems, test equipment and the military market, functionality, adaptability and flexibility of design are...

TECHNICAL FEATURE The Use of Uniplanar Technology to Reduce Microwave Circuit Size This article addresses some of the unique advantages that uniplanar technology can offer the microwave circuit designer. In contrast to the conventional microstrip approach, uniplanar techniques allow a mixture of transmission line configurations to be used together,...