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The Federal Communications Commission is soliciting public comments on an IEEE-USA petition asking the federal government to classify frequency spectrum above 95 GHz as “a new technology or service.”

It is always a concern at high millimeter wave band that there is not enough power to drive the mixer, especially full waveguide band. Model FDB-XX-E1 series externally biased, balanced mixers is especially developed for this purpose. The mixers are offered in four waveguide bands to cover frequency spectra from 50 to 140 GHz. These mixers employ high performance GaAs Schottky beamlead diodes and balanced configuration to produce superior performance with a very low LO pumping level.

A new AWR Customer Success Story details how North Carolina State University (NCSU) students enrolled in an advanced RF/microwave research and design course used AWR’s Microwave Office® and AXIEM® software to successfully complete their senior design project for a low-noise GPS amplifier and an X-Band power amplifier targeting the 8-10GHz frequency span.

Horizon House Publications and Microwave Journal China announced the lineup of Gold-level sponsors for next year’s Electronic Design Innovation Conference (EDI CON 2014). The Gold sponsors are Anritsu, CST, Spirent Communications, Mini-Circuits and Richardson RFPD.

Indium Corp.'s Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, vice president of technology, and Dr. Ron Lasky, senior technologist, will present at the SMTA/iNEMI Medical Electronics Symposium November 13-14 in Milpitas, CA.

Linear Technology Corp. introduces the LTC4020, an advanced high voltage power manager and multi-chemistry battery charger designed to efficiently transfer power from a variety of sources to a system power supply rail and a battery. The device offers precision charge current regulation, ±0.5% charge voltage regulation and operates across a wide 4.5 V to 55 V input voltage range compatible with a variety of different input voltage sources. 

Intercept Technology Inc., a leading provider of PCB, RF, Hybrid, and high-speed design software, celebrates the close of its 30th year of EDA software solutions development with discounts of up to 75% off on all its software.

MaxLinear Inc., a leading provider of integrated radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for broadband communications applications, announced a collaboration with Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, to produce a dual-RF-input digital TV (DTV) front-end reference design.

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that HTC and Samsung are ramping SkyOne™, a highly customizable, fully optimized front-end solution, in several of their recent smartphone launches.  The SkyOne™ platform, which integrates all RF and analog content between the transceiver and antenna, reduces complexity, size and time-to-market for customers with demanding architectures for advanced mobile applications.

Agile Microwave Technology Inc. (Agile-MWT) a product innovator in RF and Microwave component and sub-system market is pleased to announce the appointment of High-tech Sales (H-t-S) as its sales representative organization for the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont territories. H-t-S is a sales representative organization with RF and Microwave product experts that have successfully serviced the electronics industry since 1974.