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Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that its E6650A EXF wireless test set for femtocell now supports high-volume manufacturing test for designs using Broadcom Corp.’s BCM617xx series small cell chipsets. The EXF one-box tester delivers the speed, performance and scalability today’s manufacturers need to quickly ramp up production and lower its cost-of-test.

Analog Devices Inc. introduced a 12-bit, 8-channel ADC/DAC/GPIO combination chip which is user-configurable in any functional combination.

Isola Group, a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs, announced the introduction of Chronon™, the company’s latest ultra-low loss, high-speed laminate and prepreg materials engineered to mitigate skew issues in high-speed designs that have differential pairs. The introduction of Chronon, which follows the 2014 launch of Gigasync®, expands the company’s portfolio of PCB materials to mitigate skew in high-speed designs.

ARC Technologies is proud to announce a new sales distributor partnership with Component Distributors, Inc. (CDI).

Anite has launched the Virtual Drive Testing Toolset, an automated, lab-based performance and interoperability test solution for cost-effective assessment of mobile devices and network infrastructure.

API Technologies Corp., a leading provider of high performance RF, microwave, millimeter wave solutions, announced that its Quad Transmit Receive Modules (QTRMs), part of the company’s Active Antenna Array Unit (AAAU) solution for AESA radar, is now available as a stand-alone module. API’s QTRMs offer the industry’s first stackable building block solution for E-Scan (electronically scanned) radar.

Alcatel-Lucent is launching a new portfolio of LTE radio access network technologies that will enable operators to make a smooth transition to next-generation network architectures, including the application of NFV and the introduction of 5G services.

Utilizing the R&S CMW500 wideband radio communication tester, Rohde & Schwarz has successfully verified combining various frequency bands in mixed-mode TDD and FDD mixed carrier aggregation.

The Microwave Vision Group (MVG) has successfully installed its StarLab at Antenna Co.’s design centre in Eindhoven, Netherlands, which will provide the company with an in-house testing resource for the rapid measurement of antennas.