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NXP , the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips , and STMicroelectronics , a leader in secure smart card chips, have announced a global strategic licensing agreement for NXP’s MIFARE™ technology. This agreement enables STMicroelectronics to integrate the entire MIFARE family into its security solutions for mobile phone and...

Narda , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the Model FO-MDA-20-25DD-1, a dual-channel DQPSK modulator driver for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s optical transponder applications that has been tested at data rates as high as 113 Gb/s, demonstrating excellent performance even at the highest data rates. The FO-MDA-20-25DD-1 is designed...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, announced RFMD has received its first purchase order from a tier-one wireless base station original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for a product featuring RFMD's state-of-the-art gallium nitride (GaN) process technology. The purchase order...

Radiall USA Inc. expands its EPXB and QM connector insert arrangements with the release of two new configurations. These two high density inserts, 48 (48 size 22 contacts) and 69 (69 size 24 contacts), offer optimized space for signal contacts, a gain of 20 percent more contacts for the...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $7.6 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS contract increased to $589.8 M. The orders are for...

Because of the unique characteristics of the specification, LTE mobile infrastructure will require components with high linearity and low loss in very small form factors; they must also operate with low power consumption. Manufactured using UltraCMOS, the Peregrine PE43204 digital step attenuator (DSA) meets these complex demands. It is...

Cambridge Consultants announced it has developed InCognito™, a novel, low-cost ‘spectral sensing’ cognitive radio technology platform that will allow any radio product to transmit without interference over so the called ‘whitespace’ frequencies recently vacated by the US digital TV switchover. These highly desirable TV band frequencies easily penetrate walls,...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®) announced that RFMD has qualified and released the RF3931, a 48 V, 30 W gallium nitride (GaN) unmatched transistor optimized for high power commercial and defense applications. The RF3931 is RFMD's first GaN product to achieve full product qualification, a process through which RF...