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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the 81180A arbitrary waveform generator, a new generation of instrument that bridges the trade-off between bandwidth and bits. The 8118A is a new class of instrument, an arbitrary waveform generator that provides greater bandwidth and higher resolution. Until now, engineers had to decide between the...

Aeroflex announced that Silicon Laboratories has selected Arendar® 2009 Suite from VI Technology , an Aeroflex company. Arendar 2009 Suite is an enterprise software solution that utilizes a modular architecture, integrated security, comprehensive API and web accessibility to shorten test cycles and speed time-to-market. “We are focused on increasing...

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry organizations, Accellera and The SPIRIT Consortium, announced that the organizations have completed their merger (revealed in June of last year). The new organization takes on the Accellera name and will continue to develop electronic design language-based and Intellectual Property (IP) standards of benefit to...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc. and its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp. , received satellite communications equipment orders totaling $12.1 M from a major government prime contractor. The orders are for follow-on procurements of high-power tri-band amplifiers, high-power...

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AWR KK , a division of AWR Corp., an innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, announced an invitation to designers in Japan to take the AXIEM Challenge beginning today through July 15, 2010. AWR's AXIEM EM simulator is the most accurate solver in its class and can typically solve large...

In 2010, only about 40,000 4G machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular modules will ship. All will be WiMAX-based. In contrast, ABI Research estimates that in 2015, more than 12.6 million of the devices – including LTE-compatible models – will ship worldwide. Why would M2M communication, which usually involves relatively low data-rates,...

Integral Systems Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, RT Logic , has more than doubled the bandwidth of its real-time T400CS Channel Simulator from 40 to 85 MHz. The T400CS Channel Simulator generates precise and realistic signals for research and development (R&D) and test activities on communications equipment for...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. has introduced five 3 x 3 mm power amplifier modules (PAM) with an integrated daisy chain coupler for next-generation platforms. These PAMs support all required modulations for a given frequency band including CDMA, WCDMA and LTE handsets and datacards. In addition, they enable a variety of...