RF & Microwave Industry News

Murata completes acquisition of Peregrine Semiconductor

Murata Electronics North America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF silicon on insulator (SOI) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announced that Murata has acquired all outstanding shares of Peregrine. The cash transaction paid the holders of Peregrine common shares $12.50 per share.


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Engineering Library Debuts on AtlantecRF Website

Engineers often have specific requirements which may not be available in the standard range of products.  AtlanTecRF recognises this all too familiar problem by demonstrating how they are able to optimise, customise or design a specific solution depending on what the customer needs with the release of over 120 drawings across 19 component categories into an online Engineering Library on their website.


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TI launches industry's first highly integrated NFC sensor transponder

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the industry's first flexible high frequency 13.56 MHz sensor transponder family. The highly integrated ultra-low-power RF430FRL15xHsystem-on-chip (SoC) family combines an ISO 15693-compliant Near Field Communication (NFC) interface with a programmable microcontroller (MCU), non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and SPI or I2C interface.


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NI's LabVIEW revolutionizes wireless prototyping for software defined radio

Software/EDA

National Instruments (NI), provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced the LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite, which combines software defined radio(SDR) hardware with a comprehensive software design flow to help engineers prototype 5G systems.


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