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At next week’s NI Week in Austin Texas, Executive Fanny Mlinarsky, the founder of Massachusetts-based OctoScope, will present her company’s solution for Over-the-Air wireless testing. Ms. Mlinarsky, who speaks English, French and Russian and holds five patents, brings a powerful combination of in-depth technical knowledge and business acumen to...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its MD-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., received an initial funded order totaling $4.6 M to support the U.S. Army's Movement Tracking System Program. This order was placed under Comtech's existing $384 M BFT-1 contract and represents the first order released by the Blue...

Custom MMIC announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Army SBIR Program Management Office for participation in the Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP) for 2011. The CPP award follows the successful completion by CMDS of its Phase II contract, “High Efficiency, Low Power, Low Noise...

In 2016, ABI Research forecasts that there will be 103 million 4G wholesale subscribers – subscribers managed through a MVNO that buys wholesale access from a mobile operator – for mobile operators, an increase from just 3.8 million in 2010. 4G wholesale business will help to further widen the...

Texas Instruments Inc. introduced the industry’s smallest, 16-bit delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with integrated programmable gain amplifier (PGA), reference, temperature sensor and 4-input multiplexer. Measuring 2 mm x 1.5 mm, the ADS1118 is more than 65-percent smaller than any other 16-bit ADC available today. The ADS1118 provides direct, linearized...

GigOptix has closed its previously announced transaction to acquire Endwave Corp. The new company combines GigOptix's optical products and Endwave's high frequency MMICs and modules, creating a new company that offers both optical and wireless communications. The merged company has retained the name GigOptix. GigOptix has moved its headquarters...

Auriga Microwave announced that it has been awarded Phase II.5 for its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) N07-007 Solid-state High-efficiency Transmit Module. This Navy-sponsored 2-year effort will build upon the Phase II development of C-band power amplifiers and low noise amplifiers. “We’re very excited about this award, as it...

Valpey Fisher Corp. and Precise Time and Frequency Inc. jointly announced an agreement in which PTF products will be sold and distributed worldwide by Valpey Fisher -- expanding its line of high performance integrated products for timing and frequency control. Terms of the agreement were not announced. A privately...