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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) - Asia's leading test and certification institution and USB independent test lab - selected Agilent's USB testing solution for USB compliance testing. TTA will use Agilent's USB compliance testing solution, including the DSA91304A high-performance oscilloscope, N5416A USB compliance test...

Strategy Analytics forecasts that the market for Gallium Nitride (GaN) microelectronic devices will grow at a compound annual average growth rate (CAAGR) of 98 percent through to 2012. The latest analysis concludes that military and defense applications will dominate demand for GaN devices, accounting for 55 percent of the...

OEwaves Inc. has been selected as a subcontractor to support Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors in support of a Science and Technology contract from the US Army Research Development and Development Command’s (RDECOM) Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC). The total value of the initial...

HVVi Semiconductors Inc. , a developer of silicon RF power transistors, announced the company’s first product using the revolutionary High Voltage Vertical Field Effect Transistor (HVVFET™) architecture for radar applications in the UHF band. Operating across the 420 to 470 MHz band, the HVV0405-175 offers UHF system designers a...

SiGe Semiconductor Inc. released the SE2568U ISM band high-performance power amplifier (PA) targeted at the embedded 2.4 GHz wireless LAN (WLAN) market. This new device integrates direct to battery operation and offers state of the art integration for embedded handheld and modular application. The SE2568U offers the industry's smallest...

Published Monday, December 15, 2008 | Last Update 12.15.08 Here are your replies to the December Expert Advice column Pierre Piel,applications engineer at Freescale Semiconductor talks about some of the areas where microwave technology is being utilized in medical applications and what some of the performance requirements are for...

Nujira has placed a volume production contract for its Coolteq™ power modulator modules for cellular base stations with Sanmina-SCI in Shenzhen, China. Nujira Coolteq modules can significantly reduce the energy consumption of 3G and 4G base stations by improving the efficiency of the RF transmission circuits. The modules are...

The Ciel II satellite, of Canada's Ciel Satellite Group, has been successfully launched by International Launch Services (ILS) from the Baïkonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor of the satellite, which will deliver service over North America. Ciel II is the first multi-spot satellite dedicated...

Arlon Inc. , an indirect subsidiary of WHX Corp. (WHX), is in receipt of the complaint that Rogers Corp. filed against Arlon in the United States District Court in Hartford, CT. The complaint alleges that Rogers is the exclusive licensee under US Patent No. 5,552,210 and that Arlon’s TC600...

Avago Technologies , a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, has announced that its two power amplifiers based on the fifth generation of CoolPAM technology comply with the new talk time requirements defined by major Asian mobile carriers. The ACPM-7822, which supports Japan CDMA...