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TowerJazz announced a signed agreement with Public and Private Consortium Tecnopolis del Sur (Tecnopolis del Sur) to help foster research and technological development in Argentina to enable product competitiveness in the international market. The terms of the agreement include training of the R&D groups of Tecnopolis del Sur by...

The consumer wireless market has seen a “rebirth” of sorts in the last few years, as new data-hungry, mobile devices infiltrate the market and compete for bandwidth on the network. The resurgence in WiFi has been in large part due to the inability of the cellular network to keep...

In the MMIC arena, microwave functions previously achieved with a chain of multiple single-function MMICs are being replaced with more highly integrated, application-specific, multi-function MMICs. As a result, functions recently requiring 10 to 15 individual MMICs are now being designed with as few as four MMICs. Similarly in the...

Today, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is much more than GPS, which was introduced for civilian use more than a decade ago. Nations around the world are working on their own navigation satellite systems for strategic reasons and also to offer improved user experience. Today, two GNSS systems...

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and an RF measurement is only as reliable as the most uncertain component or practice. Increasing complexity of communication schemes are driving stringent performance requirements of today’s RF components and networks. The vector network analyzer (VNA) is the instrument...

Modern base station receivers for wireless communication infrastructures cope with extreme sensitivity and intermodulation characteristics, requiring sub 1 dB noise figures and high linearity for the low noise amplifier (LNA). Until recently, these specifications were only met using compound semiconductor technologies like GaAs PHEMT. However, NXP’s latest developments with...

The increasing demand for high frequency components with various applications and the need to test such components require effective and efficient calibration of the measurement systems that are used. In order to have a wide field of application calibration, devices need to be both economic and technical. In particular,...

An antenna measurement facility is typically one of the largest capital investments an antenna manufacturer makes. Therefore, companies commonly specify a test range that seeks to fulfill all requirements within a single chamber. In the resulting facility design, the overall physical dimensions are driven by the largest expected test...

Adapters East Coast Microwave Distributors has launched a new website to locate nearly every RF/microwave coax adapter. The website allows you to choose from a wide range of manufacturer’s adapters, by separating commercial-grade adapters from Mil-Grade ones. All roads lead to ADAPTER CITY! East Coast Microwave 70 Tower Office...

Components Millimeter-wave Balanced Mixers Ducommun Technologies offers balanced mixers that are available in six waveguide bands to cover the frequency spectrum from 26.5 to 110 GHz. These mixers employ high power performance GaAs Schottky beamlead diodes and balanced configuration to produce superior performance and a moderate LO pumping level....