RF & Microwave Industry News

Registration opens for inaugural Boards, Chips and Packaging IMPACT conference

Isola Group, a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and Semico Research, a semiconductor marketing and consulting research company, announced that they have teamed up to launch Boards, Chips and Packaging: Designing to Maximize Results. This new industry event will span the system-level ecosystem to address the roles of system architecture, board design, chip design, package design and final fabrication and assembly processes for hardware product development.


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Custom MMIC names John Greichen vice president of sales and marketing

Custom MMIC, a leading supplier of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), is pleased to announce that John Greichen has joined its leadership team as vice president of sales and marketing. He will be responsible for all aspects of sales and marketing for Custom MMIC, as the company continues to rapidly grow its standard product and design services offerings.


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Keysight adds signal generation capabilities to Signal Studio software

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced significant updates to its Signal Studio for LTE/LTE-Advanced FDD (N7624B) and TDD (N7625B) software. Both signal-creation tools now support key features of 3GPP Release 12 (Rel-12), accelerating time-to-market for developers of user equipment (UE) and evolved NodeB (eNB) base transceiver stations (BTS) designed to achieve greater spectral efficiency, higher data rates and more-robust links in heterogeneous networks (HetNets).


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Amphenol Connex is now Amphenol RF

Amphenol Connex has merged with Amphenol RF, headquartered in Danbury, Conn. The combined product portfolio will be marketed and sold under the name Amphenol RF. The Moorpark, Calif. facility will continue to operate as the company’s main North American distribution center and Amphenol RF’s western regional sales office providing support to local customers.


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