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A postgraduate student from the University of Bristol is the joint recipient of five separate awards in recognition of their world record achievement in 5G wireless spectrum efficiency using Massive MIMO. The announcement was made at the 22nd annual NIWeek conference in Austin, Texas, at the National Instruments (NI) Engineering Impact Awards ceremony.

The electronic test and measurement (T&M) industry has been taken by storm lately with trends such as Internet of Things (IoT), millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies, and 5G suggesting significant changes in requirements for test equipment thus opening up opportunities for vendors, according to Frost & Sullivan.

Pickering Interfaces will showcase their broad range of PXI and LXI RF & Microwave switching solutions, along with their soon-to-be-released 2-slot USB/LXI Modular Chassis and LXI Simulation Tool at EDI CON USA 2016 in booth 822 on September 20-22, 2016.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that it has extended its industry-leading One-Stop Calibration Services, to include non-Keysight equipment, reinforcing the company’s commitment to support complete test systems.

Mobile Experts released its annual forecast on Semiconductors for RRH. The 2016 release shows that weak demand for LTE base stations has impacted the RF semiconductor market, but losses are partially offset by wider bandwidth and MIMO requirements, which drive higher prices.

Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT), a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the broadcast, sports, entertainment and law enforcement markets, announces the appointment of John Procacci as vice president of sales. Procacci will be responsible for leading the entire sales team at IMT and commercial sales at xG Technology.

Indium Corp.'s new reclaim and recycle program is now offering customers credit for their solder pot dross and contaminated solder.

Ericsson and Bombardier have completed trials of LTE networks for railway solutions at simulated speeds of up to 200 km/h.

Würth Elektronik eiSos is a badge sponsor of the Electromagnetic Field 2016 festival in Guildford, UK, contributing various passive components within the TiLDA festival badge.

SAF Tehnika has selected Sivers IMA’s V-Band converters to be an integrated part of the company’s upcoming products for test and measurement in the 60 GHz arena.