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Anoison Electronics Ltd. announced that its Mini-CQMA is a quick locking SMA (QMA) replacement that was designed with panel mount and PCB applications specifically in mind. The size of the Mini-CQMA plug and jack are the smallest of any QMA connector on the market to date. This miniaturization, in...

XMA Corp. is pleased to announce the newest addition to its high-performance line of Omni Spectra™ microwave components. After introducing the 40 GHz line of attenuators and terminations just a month ago, XMA is now expanding its offering with a new 2 W design: the Omni Spectra 4801-6XXX-dB family...

Microphase Corp. announced wideband multiplexers 0.5 GHz to 40 GHz low profile, 0.40" thin. The Microphase low profile contiguous channel Wideband Multiplexer Series is available over the 0.5 to 40 GHz range and offers a number of features. Compact and lightweight, all models are 0.400” thin, yet product performance...

Hittite Microwave will introduce the HMC700LP4E, the first in a new series of integrated fractional-N synthesizers designed to cover a wide range of applications particularly those sensitive to phase noise and signal jitter. This innovative fractional-N synthesizer features a 16 bit fractional divider, 24 bit delta-sigma modulator, 14 bit...

Fotofab , a supplier of precision thin-metal parts, offers RF and board level engineers the design flexibility and cost efficiency they need to solve tough real estate issues on congested circuit boards with their custom “dimple” shields. The dimpled, snap-fit lid permits component access for testing and other procedures...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced nonlinear vector network analyzer (NVNA) capability for its PNA-X microwave network analyzer, establishing a new industry standard in RF nonlinear network analysis from 10 MHz to 26.5 GHz. Requiring minimal external hardware, the Agilent NVNA software effectively converts a 4-port PNA-X into a high performance...

In this paper parameters of an old technology altimeter are discussed and then after deriving the measure of quality factor (height measurement accuracy), suitable solutions for improving the technology, namely decreasing its peak power (from 62.5w to10.9w) so to improve its LPI characteristics while maintaining its performance quality are...

1. Introduction The planar end fire tapered slot antenna (TSA) is a novel technique and is presently quite new [1], this has been less studied theoretically with little information or analysis results available in journals and literature today. These types of radiating structures find wide applications [2] vis-à-vis: as...

Because of nonlinearities, all amplifiers generate intermodulation products, some of which are very difficult to remove. Take the case of a narrow-bandwidth amplifier which must put out a very clean RF signal; that is, any frequencies outside the band due to intermodulation must be greatly attenuated, often by 50...

Introduction UWB technology is quickly gaining acceptance as a wireless technology with outstanding characteristics. To understand UWB, we begin with a look at its origins and its growth to date. History Early radios like Guglielmo Marconi’s spark gap design (1896) marked the beginning of Impulse Radio (IR) communications. Inspired...