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Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT), a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the broadcast, sports, entertainment and law enforcement markets, announced it has been acquired by xG Technology Inc. (xG), a leader in providing critical wireless communications for use in challenging operating environments.

FormFactor Inc. and Cascade Microtech Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which FormFactor will acquire all outstanding Cascade shares in a cash and stock transaction.

NI AWR Design Environment™ V12.02, inclusive of Microwave Office, Visual System Simulator™ (VSS), Analog Office, AXIEM, and Analyst™, has been released and is now available to download. 

P1dB released a new series of test cables that are phase stable under continuous flexure. These new test cables are built using P1dB’s new 195TM coaxial cable, which has been designed and tested to be phase stable under 50,000 flexure cycles.

e2v has strengthened its investment in high performance electronic solutions with the acquisition of Swedish signal processing design and development company, Signal Processing (SP) Devices.

Honeywell has completed the acquisition of COM DEV International, a leading satellite and space components provider of switches and multiplexers.

CEA-Leti will make two presentations during the EU-Japan Symposium on 5G – "From Challenges to Standardisation" – in Tokyo on 8-10 February.

Empower RF is pleased to announce the release of the low power series of its next generation family of RF amplifier systems. Leveraging our patented architecture, these broadband RF and microwave amplifiers are housed in a compact 3U air cooled chassis and are equipped with feature rich software control, making these amplifiers configurable to a wide variety of applications requiring digital modulation, multi-tone/multi-carrier, pulsed and AM/FM/CW.

Barry Industries and Modelithics, Inc. have published a report detailing the broadband performance of Barry's 5 mm high temperature co-fired ceramic (HTCC) quad-flat-no-leads (QFN) package to 40 GHz. Barry Industries is an ISO9001:2008 certified ITAR-registered manufacturer of high quality thick film resistors, terminations, attenuators and high temperature co-fired ceramic (HTCC) packaging.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. introduced the latest release of its powerful Advanced Design System (ADS) software, ADS 2016. The software improves design productivity and speeds circuit and electromagnetic simulation performance. ADS 2016 provides new RF printed circuit board, laminate, module, and silicon RFIC products, as well as technologies, capabilities and other enhancements.