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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. introduced a new set of digital phase shifters for communications, electronic warfare (EW) and radar applications. The phase shifters facilitate easy implementation in communication antennas, phased array radars, weather radars, and EW receivers. The GaAs pHEMT 4-Bit and 6-Bit digital phase shifters meet the high...

Vectron International , a leader in the design and manufacture of precision oscillators and timing solutions for communication, industrial, military and space applications, announced its next generation MEMS-based oscillators. The new VM 702, 802, and 822 product series have LVDS, LVPECL and HCSL output options with an expanded frequency...

With the "Dog Days of Summer" upon us and the end of Summer in sight, it is time to turn our thoughts to back-to-school plans, for those of us with school age kids. For microwave professionals, there are numerous conferences on the Fall schedule for our educational benefit. At...

ABI Research’s optimistic forecasts for the penetration of high powered RF integrated circuits into the mobile wireless base station market continue to be borne out by the latest market developments, which project more than 10 million high power RFIC units will be shipped in 2011. According to Mobile Networks...

The energy and activity levels of a large crowd are hard to quantify, but by the accounts of most observers, there was plenty of both at the International Microwave Symposium 2011 in Baltimore, MD, June 5-10. Event managers said the official attendance was more than 8600 participants. This number...

The figure of merit (G/T) for a satellite-terrestrial handset is a critical parameter for the link budget calculations, where G is antenna gain, which varies with elevation and azimuth angles, and T is the system noise temperature, which is the sum of the handset receiver and its antenna noise...

The high power amplifier is an important building block in wireless communication systems, but is inherently nonlinear. The nonlinearity results in intermodulation of the input signals, causing intermodulation distortion products at the output of the HPA and hence adjacent channel interference. 1 Thus, linearization methods are usually employed in...

With the development of modern wireless communications, the ultra-wideband (UWB) systems have attracted much attention recently because of their advantages, including high speed data, small size, low cost and low complexity. The antenna of the ultra-wideband systems plays an important role in the receiving and transmitting of ultra-wideband radiation....

Cost pressure, increasing SATCOM dependence and a "do more with less" mantra coming from the halls of the Pentagon, government agencies and commercial satellite owner/operators are leading to innovative thinking from vendors and users alike. Eric DeMarco, President and CEO of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has said, "In...

Fullwave electromagnetic (EM) model extraction has become an essential part of high frequency IC design flows and has become invaluable for extracting highly accurate models for inductors, baluns, MIM capacitors, transmissions, coupled lines, interconnects and even on-chip grounding busses. However, EM model extraction based on full 3D volume meshing...