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RFaxis , a fabless semiconductor company focused on innovative, next-generation RF solutions for the wireless and connectivity markets, announced that Helicomm Inc. has chosen RFaxis' RF Front-end Integrated Circuits (RFeIC) and embedded antennas for integration into its family of Zigbee and other wireless networking modules. Headquartered in San Diego,...

Epic Communications Inc. announces that it has released three WiMAX power amplifier products supporting both IEEE 802.16d-2004 fixed and 802.16e-2005 Wave 2 mobile WiMAX standards for emerging WiMAX mobile and fixed applications. These three PAs feature high linearity, miniature packages and fully-matched performance with minimum external components. Each of...

Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. (FMA) has entered the mobile phone RF transceiver market with commercial production of a new highly integrated transceiver module supporting 3GPP WCDMA/EGPRS wireless phones. The MB86L01A is the industry’s first multi-mode transceiver to eliminate 3G TX and RX inter-stage SAW filters and low noise amplifiers...

The US Department of Defense announced late last month that Aeroflex won a five-year, $40.5 M contract with the US Marine Corps to supply Ground Radio Maintenance Automatic Test Systems (GRMATS). For this contract Aeroflex will supply its newly developed test platform, the 7200 Configurable Automated Test Set (CATS)....

DragonWave Inc. , a supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, announced Horizon Quantum, delivering the industry’s leading microwave capacity and slashing carriers’ cost per bit. The new DragonWave solution provides dramatically more bandwidth than legacy microwave solutions - up to a record-breaking 4 Gbps...

Agilent Technologies Inc. expanded the world’s most flexible PNA-X network analyzer with 13.5, 43.5 and 50 GHz models. The 43.5 and 50 GHz models support higher frequency applications such as radar and satellite communications, while the 13.5 GHz model is ideal for lower-frequency devices used in wireless communications. Agilent’s...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a single-unit solution -- the U8903A audio analyzer -- that helps users quantify characteristics that affect sound quality in audio devices. The Agilent U8903A is also the next-generation replacement for the widely used legacy 8903B audio analyzer. The scalable, two-channel U8903A includes versatile measurement functions,...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced EMPro 2009, the full 3-D electromagnetic (EM) design and simulation software that represents the next step in integration with Advanced Design System (ADS), the industry’s leading RF and microwave design and simulation platform. EMPro 2009 contains both finite-element-method and finite-difference-time-domain EM simulation techniques. Integrated with...

ATC introduces the new 800R NPO ceramic, high RF power lowest ESR MLC series. It is manufactured in one of ATC's signature case sizes; case R (0.070" x 0.090") with a capacitance range of 1 to 100 pF at 500 W VDC. The 800R series is designed to provide...

Channel Microwave Corp. has recently been awarded $3.1 M in contracts for components and subsystems used for military and homeland defense applications. These contracts will be completed next year with expected follow-on orders....