RF & Microwave Industry News

Keysight Technologies Announces Availability of RF Power Amplifier Test, Envelope Tracking in Power Amplifiers Application Notes

The “Solutions for RF Power Amplifier Testand Solutions for Implementing Envelope Tracking in Power Amplifiersare the newest in the series of Keysight Power of Wireless application notes designed to provide a better understanding into the intricacies of the continuously evolving wireless industry and to help users accelerate development of their products.


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Mercury Systems to define new RF and microwave standard with OpenRFM

Mercury Systems Inc.,a leading provider of affordable, commercially developed, open sensor processing systems and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications, announced it has launched the OpenRFM™ standards initiative designed to streamline the integration of RF and digital subsystems in advanced sensor processing applications with the goal of creating more affordable, flexible and open standards-based solutions.


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Chenakin appointed R&D director of Anritsu microwave measurement division

 Anritsu Co. announces the appointment of Dr. Alexander Chenakin as director of R&D for the Anritsu Microwave Measurement Division (MMD). A renowned expert in the test and measurement industry who holds multiple patents and has earned numerous awards, Dr. Chenakin will oversee the Anritsu R&D team responsible for developing the company’s next-generation synthesized source product line. 


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Freescale modernizes microwave oven industry with solid-state RF power

 Freescale Semiconductor is disrupting the microwave oven industry with additions to its RF heating portfolio: two new cost-effective, solid-state RF power transistor products and an application development ecosystem. The additions are engineered to enable consumer and commercial microwave oven appliance OEMs to create differentiated solutions and novel product types for a new cooking paradigm. 


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MACOM introduces new four stage E-Band driver amplifier

 M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, introduced a four stage E-Band driver amplifier, building on its previous MAAP-011106 E-Band Power amplifier release in early March. Delivering typical Psat of 24 dBm for the 71 to 76 GHz and 81 to 86 GHz frequency ranges in a single product, the device is ideal for high capacity macro cell and small cell backhaul point to point radios. 


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