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The four founders of TTPCom have joined forces with Professor Rick Hillum to form Camitri, a new venture, backed by Imprimatur Capital, that will market intellectual property from world leading universities and research institutes to the communications industry. Gordon Aspin, Mark Collins, Richard Fry and Tony Milbourn were the...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that its N6705A DC Power Analyzer has been awarded four prestigious industry awards: •Test & Measurement World's 2008 Best in Test •Electronic Products' 2007 Product of the Year •Design News' 2007 Golden Mousetrap Award •International Engineering Consortium's 2008 Design Vision Award Finalist The awards recognize...

Avnera™ Corp., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in wired-quality wireless audio, used Jazz Semiconductor's® 0.18-micron RFCMOS process (CA18) to develop its semiconductor chip technology for wireless speakers, microphones, headphones and headsets that solves many interference problems. Avnera’s products include the AudioMagic™ chip, which enables uncompressed CD-quality sound for music...

Acceleware Corp., a developer of high-performance computing (HPC) applications, and Synopsys Inc., a developer of software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announced a new hardware solution that enables up to 20-times faster electromagnetic simulation of optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors. The solution, which links Synopsys’s...

As the wireless handset market surpasses one billion units shipped per year, application processors are an increasingly important enabler of multimedia capabilities in high-end smartphones and feature phones. However, according to a recent study from ABI Research, this growing market will face several key challenges over the next several...

The US National Football League (NFL) has awarded Anritsu Co. a $500,000 contract to supply it with 36 MS2721B Spectrum Master™ handheld spectrum analyzers. The NFL’s Game Day Frequency Coordinators (GDC) will use the MS2721B spectrum analyzers to research, troubleshoot and analyze the RF spectrum at the league’s 32...

Microwave methods, both passive and active, play an important role amongst modern diagnostics of fusion plasma research. Microwave Reflectometer is used to measure plasma density profile and its fluctuations. Electron Cyclotron Emission (ECE) waves which has a frequency range in the microwave as well as millimeter range is used...

The topic of much debate, WiMAX is rapidly becoming a growing market. With more and more service providers and enterprises jumping on the WiMAX bandwagon. The next step is to accelerate the deployment of WiMAX worldwide by leveraging the numerous benefits of wireless backhaul. So, what’s all the hype...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a form of digital modulation used in a wide array of communications systems. This paper will explain what OFDM is, why it’s important, where it’s used, and what test instrumentation is required to maintain it. Perhaps we should first explain what is so...

Most of the high power resistors used in RF and Microwave frequencies are found in Wilkinson power dividers/combiners in power distribution circuits. For best performance, the 100 Ohm isolation resistor, when used in a Wilkinson divider, should have very low capacitance to minimize the effects on insertion loss. Additionally,...