RF & Microwave Industry News

Rakon launches a 7 x 5 mm acceleration tolerant TCXO

Rakon UK is proud to announce it has developed a 7 x 5 mm small form factor acceleration tolerant TCXO. The RFPT705 TCXO is available now with frequencies from 16 to 40 MHz and uses Rakon’s patented dual-crystal design giving better than 0.5 ppb/g acceleration sensitivity. It is based on Rakon’s proprietary Pluto™ TCXO ASIC, a single chip oscillator with an analogue compensation circuit, which results in a frequency versus temperature stability as tight as ± 200 ppb.


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IMT rolls out cache of transmitters and receivers for MAG market

Integrated Microwave Technologies LLC (IMT), a business unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave systems for MAG (Military, Aerospace & Government) markets, is rolling out a range of compact and ultra-compact state-of-the-art digital transmitters designed to cater to its customers’ diverse needs and requirements.


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ADI’s 24-bit sigma-delta A/D converter achieves twice the speed of competing converters

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced a multiplexed 24-bit sigma-delta A/D converter that doubles the throughput rate of alternative sigma-delta converters while dissipating less power. Designed for process automation and instrumentation systems where data channel density is increasing and channels must be monitored faster, ADI’s new AD7176-2 A/D converter achieves a 50 kSPS (thousand samples per second) multi-channel scan rate.


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Tech-X Corp. releases Vorpal 6.0

Tech-X Corp. of Boulder, CO announced the release of Vorpal 6.0. New in the release is the customization of Vorpal for targeted industries. With the VSimEM package for electrostatic and electromagnetic problems, VSimMD for the microwave device optimization, VSimPA for plasma acceleration simulations, VSimPD for plasma discharge simulations, VSimBase for the educational market, and VSimPro, which provides the full features of Vorpal, the pricing and use of Vorpal is more flexible and more focused on meeting the needs of customers.


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Ethertronics continues to build momentum with diversification and global market growth

Ethertronics, a leading technology company enabling innovative antenna and RF system solutions to deliver the best connected experience, announced that the company achieved a more than 50 percent increase in revenue from 2011 to 2012, reinforcing its continued growth in the global market. The company’s solutions are now integrated in more than 1,000 product designs. In addition to its continued momentum in providing products to OEMs worldwide, Ethertronics achieved major milestones in 2012 related to the diversification of its business.


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