RF & Microwave Industry News

Test equipment and EDA vendors to promote SI, high-speed and EMC/EMI design solutions at EDI CON 2014

CST, a leading EM simulation software vendor for high-speed and Signal Integrity analysis and Anritsu,  a leading provider of test instruments for SI and high-speed digital measurements, RF/microwave and wireless test solutions will be among the premier level EDI CON sponsors highlighting SI and high speed solutions in their submitted presentations to the technical conference, workshops and in-booth demos. Both will discuss the challenges of high speed interconnect characterization and the use of frequency based measurement/modeling approaches such as s-parameters in the time domain analyses favored by high-speed designer.  


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MACOM acquires Nitronex LLC

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. ("MACOM"), a leading supplier of high performance analog, RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, announced that it has acquired Nitronex LLC, a leader in the design and manufacture of gallium nitride (GaN) based RF solutions. The acquisition of Nitronex is expected to provide MACOM with fundamental and innovative GaN-on-Silicon epitaxial and pendeoepitaxial semiconductor process technology and materials for use in RF applications.


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Focus on Signal Integrity and High Speed Digital Design in Technical Conference and Workshops at EDI CON 2014

Signal integrity engineers and high speed digital engineers of multi-gigabit links are experiencing design challenges often associated with microwave frequencies. As a result, test instrument and simulation software vendors are providing solutions to tackle high speed channel characterization and design. The EDI CON technical tracks have been expanded in 2014 to include a new dedicated signal integrity, high-speed digital and EMC/EMI modeling/measurement track featuring papers on the challenges facing high-speed digital designers at the chip, package and board levels. The added HSD/EMC measurement and modeling track will take place on Thursday morning, April 10th. This track comprised of eight, 20 minute peer-reviewed presentations will complement related papers in the design tracks and various afternoon workshops held throughout the entire conference.


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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. awarded $1.4M for high-power amplifiers

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., has been awarded a contract totaling $1.4 million from a major system integrator to supply rack-mount, high-power amplifiers ("HPAs"). The HPAs will be used in an expansion of a system that relays military satellite communications around the world and that is already using similar Comtech Xicom HPAs.


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