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Collision warning systems began to appear in top-of-the-line vehicles around 2003. By 2011, some collision mitigation features are becoming available on higher volume models. While the early technology focused on high-speed crashes, the latest innovations are designed to avoid collisions at low speeds – less than 21 mph for...

Tektronix Inc. , a worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced plans to expand its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area by opening an RF Design Center in Santa Rosa, CA. This announcement comes on the heels of the opening earlier this month of a new...

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced the industry’s widest bandwidth, fully-integrated transmit/receive processors with digital pre-distortion (DPD) for 3G and 4G wireless base stations, remote radio heads and government communication systems. The GC533x family features a duo of turn-key processors that provide a complete and highly flexible digital transmit and...

TriQuint Semiconductor, announced its financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2010, including the following highlights: ▪ Revenue for the quarter was $253.4 M, up 7% from Q3'10 and 31% from Q4'09 ▪ Revenue for the year was a record $878.7 M ▪ Mobile Devices quarterly...

Saab is to establish a research and development center in India. The aim is to create a sustainable and long-term relationship that will enable the company to co-develop critical technologies with India. This center is part of Saab's future offering for the world market. “The aim of the research...

CJSC NEC Neva Communications Systems (NEC Neva), a subsidiary of NEC Corp. in Russia, has agreed with VimpelCom Ltd. to deploy the NEC iPASOLINK platform for the transformation of its backhaul mobile transport network. The NEC iPASOLINK will provide VimpelCom with an ultra-flexible mobile transport network agile enough to...

Two of ORBIT Communication Systems Inc. ’s advanced tracking and telemetry systems have been incorporated as part of SpaceX’s participation in NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program. The company’s 1.8 m AL-4016 ship-stabilized telemetry tracking unit and the AL-4000 tracking antenna control unit, were used by SpaceX during...

Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd. has launched its 10 Gb/s multipoint microwave backhaul platform. VectaStar Radio Controller (RC), the latest development of the company’s VectaStar microwave backhaul and access solution, is designed to meet the growing capacity requirements of mobile operators around the world. The RC is a native Ethernet...

Narda Safety Test Solutions , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the Nardalert S3, the world’s most accurate, versatile non-ionizing radiation (NIR) monitor for wearable and fixed-area monitoring applications. The Nardalert S3 detects electromagnetic (EM) radiation levels from 100 kHz to 50 GHz, and is the successor to the Nardalert...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Altair Semiconductor announced they will jointly conduct interoperability testing and validation testing using Altair’s 4G LTE chipset in conjunction with the Agilent PXT wireless communications test set and N6070A-series signaling conformance test software. The joint effort will accelerate the development of LTE devices and testing...