RF & Microwave Industry News

Cirexx to present ECLIPS technology at IMS2015

Cirexx International announced that they will be presenting their ECLIPS technology at IMS2015 in Phoenix, Ariz., May 17-22. Cirexx will be in Booth # 2023. ECLIPS (Embedded Cooling Layer – Integrated Power System) is a system of producing high-power RF/microwave printed circuit boards (PCBs) employing an embedded low-CTE, thermally engineered metalized heat-sink layer which has superior thermal conductivity characteristics.


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Anritsu offers VVM with full A/B and B/A ratio capability for Microwave Site Master

Anritsu Co. introduces a Vector Voltmeter Mode (VVM) for its Microwave Site Master™ S820E - the world's only handheld cable and antenna analyzer offering coverage up to 40 GHz – that allows the S820E to be used as a drop-in replacement for legacy Vector Voltmeter instruments. With the ability to provide full A/B and B/A ratio capability without additional and expensive VNA options, the S820E with the VVM provides field engineers and technicians with a compact, durable, cost-efficient single-instrument solution to make key field measurements to ensure the proper deployment, installation, and maintenance of wireless networks.


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NI AWR Design Environment V12 pre-release now available

NI (formerly AWR Corp.), announces that NI AWR Design Environment™ V12—the first major software release in 2015—is now available as a pre-release to select customers, partners and evaluators. Previewing for the first time at International Microwave Symposium 2015 (IMS2015) at NI Booth #2431, this latest release boasts new load-pull and antenna- and radar-specific features, as well as ease-of-use improvements, speed enhancements and third-party integration flows.


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Keysight works with MediaTek on mobile chipset manufacturing test solution

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that it has worked with MediaTek on the release of a manufacturing test solution for the MediaTek MT6735 mobile chipset, based on the Keysight E6640 EXM wireless test set. The MT6735, released in October of 2014, is an LTE 64-bit mobile SoC platform with integrated modem, RF and CorePilot™ technology, for use by global operators targeted at the emerging mid-range smartphone market called, Super-mid. The MT6735 builds upon MediaTek's existing LTE platform by adding CDMA2000 to create WorldMode modem capability.


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MACOM announces fourth generation GaN technology

Next-generation GaN on Silicon technology rivals performance of GaN on Silicon Carbide, offering greater than 70% efficiency and 19dB Gain at a cost structure below incumbent LDMOS technology

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic semiconductor products, announced its fourth generation of Gallium Nitride on Silicon (GaN on Si) technology.


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