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Hittite Microwave Corp. , supplier of complete MMIC based solutions for communication and military markets has introduced the first product in the new Automatic Gain Control product line. The HMC992LP5E combines a high performance analog Voltage Variable Attenuator (VVA) core with a high speed power detector in a compact...

COMSOL Inc. announced the release of a major upgrade of its add-on Acoustics Module for its flagship product COMSOL Multiphysics. This latest version of the Acoustics Module offers new capabilities and expanded multiphysics user interfaces for simulating thermoacoustic effects, poroelastic waves, acoustic-shell interactions, and piezo-acoustic devices. The new version...

Advantest Corp. announced the availability of its new Cross Domain Analyzer™ family, the U3800 series. The U3800 is the industry’s first metrology tool to offer phase measurement of two high-frequency signals in a single instrument, allowing operators to determine the phase difference. This new functionality enables quick and accurate...

At next week’s NI Week in Austin Texas, Executive Fanny Mlinarsky, the founder of Massachusetts-based OctoScope, will present her company’s solution for Over-the-Air wireless testing. Ms. Mlinarsky, who speaks English, French and Russian and holds five patents, brings a powerful combination of in-depth technical knowledge and business acumen to...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its MD-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., received an initial funded order totaling $4.6 M to support the U.S. Army's Movement Tracking System Program. This order was placed under Comtech's existing $384 M BFT-1 contract and represents the first order released by the Blue...

Custom MMIC announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Army SBIR Program Management Office for participation in the Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP) for 2011. The CPP award follows the successful completion by CMDS of its Phase II contract, “High Efficiency, Low Power, Low Noise...

In 2016, ABI Research forecasts that there will be 103 million 4G wholesale subscribers – subscribers managed through a MVNO that buys wholesale access from a mobile operator – for mobile operators, an increase from just 3.8 million in 2010. 4G wholesale business will help to further widen the...

Texas Instruments Inc. introduced the industry’s smallest, 16-bit delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with integrated programmable gain amplifier (PGA), reference, temperature sensor and 4-input multiplexer. Measuring 2 mm x 1.5 mm, the ADS1118 is more than 65-percent smaller than any other 16-bit ADC available today. The ADS1118 provides direct, linearized...

GigOptix has closed its previously announced transaction to acquire Endwave Corp. The new company combines GigOptix's optical products and Endwave's high frequency MMICs and modules, creating a new company that offers both optical and wireless communications. The merged company has retained the name GigOptix. GigOptix has moved its headquarters...

Auriga Microwave announced that it has been awarded Phase II.5 for its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) N07-007 Solid-state High-efficiency Transmit Module. This Navy-sponsored 2-year effort will build upon the Phase II development of C-band power amplifiers and low noise amplifiers. “We’re very excited about this award, as it...