RF & Microwave Industry News

MACOM SPAR tiles selected as testbed for DARPA ACT radar program

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc., a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeterwave, and photonic semiconductor products, announced that its Scalable Planar ARray (SPAR) Tile technology has been selected by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL) for use in a test bed for the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Arrays at Commercial Timescale (ACT) program.


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ANADIGICS to be acquired by GaAs Labs

$0.35 per share price is 38% above 30-day average closing price

After years struggling to achieve a sustainable business model, ANADIGICS will end its 30 year life as an independent company, merging with John Ocampo's GaAs Labs.


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IFI's solid-state microwave pulse amplifier offers outstanding RF performance

Instruments for Industry (IFI), a unit of AMETEK Compliance Test Solutions, introduced a solid-state microwave pulse power amplifier that offers outstanding RF performance. The S21-4KWP-2KWP FLEX amplifier has a frequency range of 1.0 GHz to 2.0 GHz and supplies 4 kW of pulse power up to 10 percent duty cycle with a maximum pulse width of 100 uS. This amplifier provides ample power for the most demanding pulsed test applications.


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Keysight introduces analyzer for design, test of three-phase power devices

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced an extension to the IntegraVision family of power analyzers, the first in the industry to combine high-accuracy power measurements and touch-driven oscilloscope visualization in a single instrument. The Keysight IntegraVision PA2203A 4-channel power analyzer gives R&D engineers working on three-phase power devices an intuitive tool that delivers the dynamic views they need to see, measure and prove design performance.


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