RF & Microwave Industry News

Linear introduces 55 V IN/55 V OUT buck-boost battery charging controller

Linear Technology Corp. introduces the LTC4020, an advanced high voltage power manager and multi-chemistry battery charger designed to efficiently transfer power from a variety of sources to a system power supply rail and a battery. The device offers precision charge current regulation, ±0.5% charge voltage regulation and operates across a wide 4.5 V to 55 V input voltage range compatible with a variety of different input voltage sources. 


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Skyworks ramps SkyOne with leading smartphone manufacturers

RFIC

Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that HTC and Samsung are ramping SkyOne™, a highly customizable, fully optimized front-end solution, in several of their recent smartphone launches.  The SkyOne™ platform, which integrates all RF and analog content between the transceiver and antenna, reduces complexity, size and time-to-market for customers with demanding architectures for advanced mobile applications.


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Agile Microwave Technology adds new sales representative in New England

Agile Microwave Technology Inc. (Agile-MWT) a product innovator in RF and Microwave component and sub-system market is pleased to announce the appointment of High-tech Sales (H-t-S) as its sales representative organization for the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont territories. H-t-S is a sales representative organization with RF and Microwave product experts that have successfully serviced the electronics industry since 1974.


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Anritsu extends 4Tap emphasis to 32 Gbit/s for high-speed interconnect design evaluation

Test & Measurement

Anritsu Co. introduces a 32 Gbit/s extension option for its MP1825B 4Tap Emphasis that features industry leading Tr/Tf speeds and low jitter for up to four taps, allowing it to create emphasis that matches every industry standard. The MP1825B with the new option can be configured with the Anritsu MP1800A BERT signal quality analyzer to accurately measure the performance of high-speed interconnects used in Next Generation Network (NGN) applications in a cost- and time-efficient manner.


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Exelis delivers critical GPS satellite simulation software

Exelis successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation payload simulator software. Developed by Exelis, the software will simulate the behavior of GPS signals in space, which will be used for testing the U.S. Air Force's next generation GPS ground station known as the operational control system (OCX). The simulator will be integrated into the Raytheon-developed GPS System Simulator (GSYS) within OCX.


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