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Nearly two billion Bluetooth chipsets are forecast to ship in 2014 alone, according to new market data released by ABI Research. More than half will be found in wireless handsets. In the same year, almost 1.5 billion Wi-Fi chipsets are expected to ship and again, more than one third...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc. , has received orders totaling $1.6 M for ruggedized, solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA). These orders reflect the increasing demand for rugged Ku-band fly-away terminals for military communications. Fred Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in data-conversion technology for signal processing applications, expanded its portfolio of precision sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADC) with 12- and 16-bit small-package devices that achieve new levels of noise performance and low-power operation for portable industrial and medical instrumentation equipment. The 12-bit AD7170 ADC...

AWR , an innovation leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), and NXP Semiconductor have announced that a small-signal RF design kit is available for NXP’s SiGe:C silicon germanium bipolar junction complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) process. The design kit installs easily within AWR’s Microwave Office software and functions...

TRAK Microwave , a Smiths Interconnect business, announced a product release for Model 8451A, Time and Frequency Distribution Unit. This unit specializes in precise reference frequency signal distribution applications ranging from 1 to 20 MHz, +1 dB and 1 to 30 MHz, +2 dB. This unit provides an extremely...

Cambridge Consultants has launched Dual-domain Uplink Equalizer for LTE (DUEL), a breakthrough technology that significantly improves LTE uplink performance when compared to MMSE, the “text-book” receiver design. DUEL, designed as an algorithmic and DSP extension to LTE base station receiver designs, requires no changes to handsets. LTE technology (Long...

Cree Inc. announced that it has acquired a portfolio of patents and patent applications related to semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) material and power device technology from Daimler AG. The portfolio consists of approximately 20 patent families, including issued patents in the United States, Germany, Japan and China. US Patent...

Evans Capacitor Co. , whose energy-dense Hybrid® capacitors are found on space shuttles and the most advanced aircraft, has made these capacitors available for deepwater use. Tested to 10,000 psi and impervious to salt water, these tantalum Evans Hybrid capacitors provide up to 2 joules/second and 0.5 joules/g. They...

Nitronex and Modelithics have announced a collaboration to create state-of-the-art nonlinear models for Nitronex’s high power gallium nitride (GaN) devices. Combining the Modelithics team’s 35+ years of modeling experience with Nitronex’s industry-leading GaN power devices will allow power amplifier designers to achieve best-in-class performance with faster time to market....

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to build a second Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) in support of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The identical GMI 1 and GMI 2 Microwave Imagers are multi-channel, conical-scanning, microwave radiometers serving an...