RF & Microwave Industry News

National Instruments To Acquire AWR Corp.

National Instruments announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which NI will acquire AWR Corp. AWR is a supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software for designing RF and high-frequency components and systems for the semiconductor, aerospace and defense, communications and test equipment industries. Upon the...
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National Instruments Acquires Phase Matrix

National Instruments announced its acquisition of Phase Matrix, Inc. (PMI). The acquisition brings key RF talent, technologies and manufacturing capabilities to NI and will significantly increase the capability of NI products in high-frequency RF and microwave applications, extending the frequency range of NI products to 26.5 GHz and beyond....
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MTT-S IMS Flash: Show Daily - May 19

View in Browser May 19, 2011 Welcome to Microwave Journal 's MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2011 Show Coverage June 5-10, 2011, Baltimore, MD Welcome to this year's IMS Show Daily, Microwave Journal 's coverage of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium taking place June 5-10 in Baltimore, MD. The...
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Peregrine to Launch DTCs

Peregrine Semiconductor will launch a new product at IMS 2011. DuNE Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTC) will be in the spotlight in Booth 1626. Peregrine’s PE64904 (SPI) and PE64905 (I2C) DTCs are solid-state, digitally controlled variable capacitors targeting 100 MHz to 3 GHz. These unprecedented UltraCMOS RFICs enable frequency agile...
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TriQuint Spotlighting K-band Amplifier

TriQuint Semiconductor (Booth 2218) will highlight its new K-band power amplifier at IMS 2011. Operating from 21.2 to 23.6 GHz, TriQuint’s TGA4533-SM offers a packaged, 1W P1dB, K-Band power amplifier with 22dB small signal gain. The high OIP3 of 41dBm from this pHEMT device supports applications in PtP radio...
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Rogers Offers Circuit Materials, Design Guidance

Representatives from Rogers Corp.'s Advanced Circuit Materials Division (ACMD) will be on hand at IMS 2011 to share insights on the optimum use of the company’s high performance circuit materials, including its RT/duroid® 6035HTC and RO4360™ laminates. Members of Rogers ACMD will be on hand at Booth 2515 to...
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APA to Introduce VCOs 4254SM5 and 5362SM5

APA Wireless (Booth 317) will introduce a new line of VCOs that operate independently of ground plane and load impedance at IMS 2011. These VCOs will drive a short circuit, open circuit, or anything in between regardless of ground plane over the industrial temperature range. They have excellent phase...
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