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Sonnet Software Inc. introduces Blink™, the first multi-solver passive device modeling suite, now available for purchase. Blink operates entirely from within the Cadence® Virtuoso® environment and is used for the analysis of on-chip passive devices such as spiral inductors and MIM capacitors.

X-COM Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Bird Technologies, has introduced Version 3.0 of its RF Editor graphical signal editing software. The new release includes significant new features and enhancements that make the software an even more powerful tool as well as easier and faster to use.

Crane Aerospace & Electronics Microwave Solution launches its new Ku-Band Iso-Divider product line designed for use in satellite applications. This unit combines the functions of high performance power dividers with ferrite isolators to provide a high isolation power divider solution, making the external isolators redundant, for satellite receiver applications, without introducing complex switchbased solutions. Integration of the two functions into a single package provides enhanced product reliability due to fewer external components, interconnects and transitions.

ABI Research reports that Chinese handset vendors will account for over 50 percent of mobile handsets in 2015. Chinese vendors already accounted for 38 percent of mobile handset shipments in 2013 and the ongoing shift in growth to low cost handsets, especially smartphones, will increase their market share.

Link Microtek has been appointed as a UK and Ireland representative for Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. founder of RF SOI and pioneer of advanced RF solutions.

Rohde & Schwarzhas expanded the application field of its R&S RTO oscilloscopes to include Ethernet interface testing

Watchkeeper, the unmanned aircraft system developed by Thales for the British Army is the first UAS to be awarded a full Release To Service, and is the only UAS of its type allowed to fly in UK airspace.

New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La., that year.

Rogers Corp. will be promoting its industry-leading printed circuit board (PCB) materials at the IPC APEX EXPO, being held March 25-27, 2014 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center (Las Vegas, NV). The IPC APEX EXPO, with more than 400 exhibiting companies and thousands of attendees, is a leading industry event for professionals involved in PCB design and manufacturing and electronic assembly and test.