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The mobile device has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a cell phone. Today, it is becoming the primary means of communication for most people around the world; serving as both a voice and data connection, emulating many of the functions once reserved for the personal...

Linear Technology announces the LTC6993, an accurate and tiny "one-shot" pulse generator, the latest member of the TimerBlox™ family of timing devices. The one-shot function, also known as a monostable multivibrator, is useful for accurate event timing, edge detection and frequency discrimination. The LTC6993 makes implementation simple, since it...

The fall season is show season and we’ve got lots of events on the calendar. First up is European Microwave Week in Paris, which is rapidly approaching at the end of this month. As I mentioned in the last WaveGuide, we are organizing a new event this year, titled...

Tektronix Inc. , a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the TLA6000 Series, a logic analyzer that brings powerful high-end debug and analysis to mainstream embedded systems designers. The TLA6000 Series delivers performance and functional capability previously only found on the high-performance TLA7000 Series of instruments at...

A new RF amplifier designed and developed by the astrophysics team at Oxford University, UK, has been licensed to Atlantic Microwave Ltd. of Braintree, UK, through Isis Innovation , which is the university’s technology transfer company. Isis manages the university's intellectual property portfolio, working with researchers to identify, protect...

NEC Corp. has launched the iPASOLINK platform, a new breed of product and the key building block in the transformation of backhaul networks for LTE. The modular, flexible, all-in-one converged design of iPASOLINK – incorporating packet, microwave and optical technologies – ensures network operators can deploy high-performance, next-generation networks...

Spanish broadband specialist Quantis is bringing the full-service broadband experience to remote and rural communities across Spain, via Newtec 's satellite-based Sat3Play® technology, including hub and low-cost, easy-to-install terminals. The €24 M, Spanish government-sponsored program aims to establish a chain of neighborhood Internet access centers, known as Telecentros, in...

TT electronics’ Defence Team is taking part in the Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Roadshow 2010, which will visit the sites of eleven major contractors across the UK and in France in September and early October. The mobile exhibition will allow engineers to conveniently assess component innovations from TT electronics...

Amplifier Technology has announced its latest man-portable amplifier, the 8780 lightweight broadband power amplifier with GaN technology, which spans all frequencies from 2.5 to 6.0 GHz. It will typically be used for personal protection and to counter the threat of IEDs. The large operational frequency range of this device...

Anyone wishing for 2008 to return? For most companies, 2008 was a year of strong performance, and many of us are anxious for those marketing patterns and programs to return. But they won’t. The financial collapse and global recession hasn’t been just a momentary pause in the way we...