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Microsemi Corp. announced that it has finalized its acquisition of Advanced Power Technology (APT) in a combined stock and cash transaction. With this acquisition, Microsemi provides customers with a broader range of high performance analog, high reliability and RF products. APT is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high...

Published May 8, 2006 In an effort to better combine the editorial content of our magazine with our newly developed and retooled on-line presence, we have decided to expand Harlan's RF and microwave engineering advice into a monthly feature that appears in Microwave Journal. Harlan has selected one question...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a reorganization of its Electronic Measurements Group (EMG), merging the company's Operations Support Systems Group (OSSG) with two other existing businesses within EMG. David Churchill, Agilent's vice president and general manager of the Design Validation Division (DVD), will head the new business unit, named Network...

The management team of BFi OPTiLAS completed a management buyout of the company, which has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Avnet Corp. for over 10 years following the acquisition of BFI Ibexsa in 1995 and its subsequent merger with Optilas in 1998. The company has operated as...

Published May 3, 2006 From: Hasan Ajam, Faramoj I have a question regarding quality factor of varactor diodes at different frequencies. In the data sheet of varactor diodes the quality factor is determined only at one frequency. What is their quality factor at other frequencies? Dear Hasan, You have...

The market for RF, microwave and wireless components, materials, subassemblies and test equipment in Greater China (defined as Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, Singapore and Taiwan) has grown dramatically during the past five years. The market, once dominated by small domestic military programs and low technology/low margin...

Kulicke & Soffa Industries announced it has relocated its corporate headquarters to a new building in Fort Washington, PA. The company will maintain its current telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. The new corporate address is located at: Kulicke and Soffa Industries Inc., 1005 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034....

Sonnet ® Software Inc. announces its plans to co-host the 175th birth anniversary celebration of James Clerk Maxwell at this year’s MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco, CA. Other co-hosts include the IMS committee and Computer Simulation Technology (CST). This event will be held on the evening of...

Sonnet ® Software Inc. will co-host this event with the IMS committee and Computer Simulation Technology (CST) at this year's MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco, CA. This event will mark the 175th birth anniversary of James Clerk Maxwell, founder of the field of electromagnetics. Dr. James C....

StratEdge , a designer and producer of semiconductor packages for microwave, millimeter-wave and high speed digital devices, along with J microTechnology and Accel-RF , announced they will be hosting a seminar on monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) packaging, testing and reliability on June 14, 2006, at the Moscone Convention...