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Software Smart Bidirectional Translator The AnsoftLinks™ for Cadence® Analog Artist® series bidirectional translator allows design sharing between Cadence’s Analog Artist and Ansoft’s Serenade® design environments. High frequency IC designers of today’s communication modulation formats can now utilize each tool to reduce time-to-market pressures. AnsoftLinks, coupled with Serenade version 8.5,...
Sources Subminiature TCXO The model 312BE TCXO is designed for portable, telecommunications, data and test equipment applications. The unit operates from 12.6 to 19.8 GHz and features a frequency tolerance at 25°C of ±0.5 ppm and frequency stability of ±2.5 ppm over the operating temperature range of Ð20° to...
Subsystems n Integrated Modular Assemblies Designed for microwave, RF, video and audio test applications in the DC to 18 GHz range, these integrated modular assemblies provide a good interface between test equipment and complex, sophisticated systems with multiple inputs and outputs that need to be tested. The company’s switch...
Test Equipment n Noise Figure Analyzers The NFA series dedicated noise figure analyzers offer an integrated, 17 cm color display with single- or split-screen view, limit lines for easy pass/fail testing, comprehensive marker functions, a real-time clock to time stamp data files and printouts, and an intuitive user interface...
Tube n 28 GHz TWT The model ITW-28GC-150WA 28 GHz, 150 W traveling-wave tube (TWT) is a high performance, single-beam unit for use in LMDS, wireless communications or satellite uplink amplifier service. The LMDS TWT features a coupled cavity circuit, which improves reliability over the traditional helix design used...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT Egyptian service provider Egypt Telecom, Cairo, Egypt, has contracted with a consortium comprising Thomson-CSF Systems Canada and Mackay Radio Systems Inc., Youngsville, NC, to provide the shore-based communications infrastructure for Egypt's national Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) as well as its public maritime correspondence network....
TECHNICAL FEATURE ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF WIDEBAND MODULATED SIGNALS M.S. MUHA, C.J. CLARK, A.A. MOULTHROP AND C.P. SILVA The Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, CA Phase and/or amplitude modulated signals are often used for information transmission in microwave communications systems. For simulating such a communications system, these types of signals...
Catalog Update Precision RF and Microwave Component Catalog This 40-page catalog details instrumentation-grade adapters, precision attenuators and terminations, and high return loss connectors as well as the K Connector,® which offers coverage up to 40 GHz. Measurement components are also featured. Product photographs, specifications and application notes are provided....
News from Washington Pentagon Releases Leading US Military Contractor Rankings for 1999 According to a report issued by the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin Corp., manufacturer of the F-16 and other military aircraft and weapons systems, ranked first among US military contractors in 1999, receiving $12.7 B worth of prime contracts...
International Report Earth Observation Efforts Advance In unrelated moves, Franco-British contractor Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has acquired National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd. (NRSC) and US contractor Ball Aerospace and Technologies is expected to propose a free-flying, space-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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