RF & Microwave Industry News

Linear's 600 mA negative LDO+ offers rail-to-rail operation, programmable current limit & output current monitor

Linear Technology Corp. announces the LT3090, the newest member of its LDO+™ family, a 600 mA low dropout negative linear regulator featuring low noise, rail-to-rail operation, precision programmable current limit and a bidirectional output current monitor. The device is cable-drop compensation capable, easily parallelable for higher current or PCB heat spreading and configurable as a floating 3-terminal regulator.


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MACOM announces industry’s first highly integrated plastic packaged control MMIC for commercial radar applications

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, announced the industry’s first integrated core chip for the 8 to 11 GHz frequency range. Containing 6-bits of phase control, 6-bits of attenuation control and 26 dB of gain, MACOM’s Core Chip is an easy to use serial/parallel interface in a surface mount QFN package. Ideal for commercial radar applications, this integrated MMIC enables radar systems in early detection and warning for severe impending weather.


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Pulse Electronics introduces enhanced LDS antennas including integrated SMT components

Pulse Electronics Corp., a leading provider of electronic components, now announces in-house capability to integrate passive surface mount technology (SMT) components on 3D laser direct structuring (LDS) antennas. Incorporating SMT components with the 3D LDS antenna structure saves space on the mobile device's printed circuit board and optimizes the use of available space on the antenna.


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Laser Services' new website offers tips on laser cutting, drilling and welding

Laser Services Inc., an ISO and AS9100 registered laser job shop, has launched a newly redesigned website to include fresh insights and best practices on preparing files for laser cutting, drilling and welding, metals, ceramics, medical tools, adhesives, absorbers and more. In addition to providing an improved navigation and user experience, the site delves further into the capabilities of this laser job shop, and showcases videos, insights and laser engineering tips.


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Steatite Q-par Antennas to launch dual linear sinuous antenna at EuMW 2013

Steatite Q-par Antennas, a microwave antenna, subsystem and consultancy company based in Leominster, UK, announces the launch of a new 2 to 24 GHz Dual Linear Sinuous Antenna, at the European Microwave Week 2013 event. The low squint ultra wide bandwidth antenna is suitable for use in the EW and SIGINT market providing intercept opportunities for a wide range of arbitrarily polarised hostile signals.


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AWR offers excerpt of Prof. Michael Steer’s latest microwave & RF design book

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, announces that for a limited time the company will offer a free eBook download of Chapter 18, “Wideband Amplifiers,” from the new second edition of engineering professor Michael Steer’s textbook, Microwave & RF Design: A Systems Approach. The eBook excerpt download also contains embedded video tutorials of Professor Steer demonstrating key principles of design as they pertain to the wideband amplifier case study contained within its pages.


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