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 Watch episode15 (June 16, 2014) of the bi-weekly industry update video series, Frequency Matters. Editors David Vye and Pat Hindle review IMS 2014 in Tampa, FL including a look at the trends and collaborations they came across at the show. A short picture gallery runs at the end of the video. 

NXP Semiconductors announced that the TEF510x, the second product from the RoadLINK™ range, is now available to automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers for design-in.

At the international Automotive Testing Expo 2014 in Stuttgart Rohde & Schwarz will exhibit its test solutions for wireless applications such as vehicular radar, intelligent transport systems, eCall and automotive Ethernet interfaces.

Huawei hosted the Ireland Broadband Forum in Dublin– an event which brought together leading names from across the telecoms world to discuss the future of high-speed connectivity in Ireland.

A consortium composed of Airbus Defence and Space and Belgacom has been awarded a major renewal contract for the Belgian nationwide Tetra network that aims to strengthen crucial components of the core network.

The "Powering the Waves" theme was very present at IMS 2014 starting with the kickoff reception party on Monday featuring a water skiing show starring general chair Larry Dunleavy. Here is a short conference summary and extensive list of highlights from the exhibition by product category. 

KR Electronics part number 3157-1 is a 70 MHz bandpass filter. It has a min 0.5 dB bandwidth of 30 MHz. The filter is group delay and amplitude equalized.

Guerrilla RF, Inc., a leading provider of high performance MMICs, is pleased to announce the introduction of our first family of broadband, low noise amplifiers featuring Guerrilla Armor™, our patented and proprietary architecture for insuring high off-state isolation for the LNA under high RF input power level conditions.

Texas Instruments and Netas, a Turkish based value-added systems integration and technology services company in the fields of information and communications, announced their collaboration on an LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) macro base station for a new public safety network commissioned by the government of Turkey. Netas has selected TI's KeyStoneTM-based wireless infrastructure System-on-Chip (SoC), the TCI6638K2K, for the baseband processing in the solution, while implementing its own proprietary software.

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that the Agilent B1530 Waveform Generator/Fast Measurement Unit (WGFMU) was used by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to make ultrafast measurements of negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) degradation in deeply scaled high-K metal gate (HKMG) CMOS devices for a wide variety of DC and AC stress tests.