RF & Microwave Industry News

RSS

Tektronix Inc. announced that it has expanded its revolutionary MDO4000 series of mixed domain oscilloscopes to include two new entry level models. The new models provide breakthrough time and frequency domain analysis at a more affordable price level.

AWR has an exciting slate of activities planned for European Microwave Week 2012, being held in Amsterdam from October 28 through November 2.

Altair Semiconductor (www.altair-semi.com), the world’s leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, announced expansion of its management team with the appointments of Chee W. Kwan as vice president of worldwide sales and Uri Yaffe as vice president of business development.

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD awarded a SBIR Phase II program to Tahoe RF Semiconductor Inc. for developing a miniaturized radiation hardened beam-steerable GPS receiver front end for NASA spacecrafts. This product is designed to improve the signal sensitivity by 10 dB to 25 dB-Hz and improve performance against multipath interferences.

AWR is holding complimentary classes in the Boston area on MWO and AXIEM. Both day-long classes are being held at the company's Burlington, MA office.

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) announced that its low-cost radio frequency (RF) value line of system-on-chips (SoCs) now supports 2.4 GHz frequency bands with the new CC2543, CC2544 and CC2545 SoCs. The SoCs integrate a microcontroller (MCU), 32kB flash and one or two kB RAM on a single die, making them ideal solutions for consumer electronics requiring cost and space efficiency.

KRYTAR Inc., a leader in the design and production of ultra-broadband microwave components and test equipment announces a new directional coupler offering high performance over the ultra-broadband frequency range of 1.0 to 50.0 GHz, in a single, compact and lightweight package.

Cassidian has awarded the ARGUS research prizes for outstanding performance of young scientists in the field of communications, radar and high-frequency technology for the tenth year.

7Layers has been recognized by MetroPCS Communications as an approved test lab for LTE device certification. The cooperation expands the options available to mobile phone manufacturers who are preparing to introduce LTE devices.

Astrium has been awarded a three year contract by the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide commercial satellite communications capacity for European military needs.