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The steady production of the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected military communications satellite continues on track with Northrop Grumman Corp.'s delivery of the fourth payload to AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin 4 1/2 months early.

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the industry's first flexible high frequency 13.56 MHz sensor transponder family. The highly integrated ultra-low-power RF430FRL15xHsystem-on-chip (SoC) family combines an ISO 15693-compliant Near Field Communication (NFC) interface with a programmable microcontroller (MCU), non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and SPI or I2C interface.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that they have joined the NYU WIRELESS university research center as a key sponsor of the fundamental groundwork that the research center is laying for a new generation of wireless technologies, also known as 5G.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced that it has moved to a larger and newly-renovated office space in Geneva, Ill. The new 24,000-square-foot corporate headquarters is sized to accommodate the company’s continued growth as a global leader in the RF and wireless communications, power conversion and renewable energy markets.

National Instruments (NI), provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, announced the LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite, which combines software defined radio(SDR) hardware with a comprehensive software design flow to help engineers prototype 5G systems.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced the largest in-kind software donation in its longstanding relationship with the Georgia Institute of Technology. Keysight’s latest in-kind donation is valued at approximately $120 million (book value) over three years and will comprise Keysight EEsof EDA software, support and training. The donation is being given as part of the Keysight EEsof EDA University Alliance program.

Azimuth Systems, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive real-world wireless test solutions for LTE-Advanced and beyond, announced general availability of the ACE™ RNX radio network emulation platform.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. ("MACOM"), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, announced two high power PIN diode switches with industry leading linearity in a common anode configuration, operating over 50 MHz to 1 GHz.

Modelithics, Inc., in partnership with TriQuint Semiconductor, has released the latest update to the growing library of high-accuracy non-linear simulation models for TriQuint gallium nitride (GaN) transistors.

Work on new technologies that will form the foundation of 5G standards has been occurring for the last few years; however, the formal standards process has just begun, according to ABI Research.