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Harmon & Sullivan Associates Inc. has newly been appointed as the Times OEM rep group covering upstate New York. Established in 1987 in Rochester, NY, they bring with them an extensive history in sales of interconnect solutions and strong relationships with the military subcontractors in the region. The outside...

It's been a busy month as the editorial staff wraps up our annual May MTT-S IMS Show Issue. I'm happy to report that the magazine is now at the printer and it is one of our finest show issues ever. Thanks to you, our ad sales were strong, which...

In-Building Wireless (IBW) systems are showing solid adoption rates and, according to the latest forecasts from ABI Research, should register almost $10 B worth of deployments next year. Corporate campuses, airports and railway stations, and retail shopping centers (in that order) are the leading verticals where the need for...

LTE is starting to gain critical momentum as we move through the second quarter of 2011. Currently 12 countries have commercial LTE services, and according to ABI Research VP of Forecasting Jake Saunders, “ABI Research projects that by the end of the year there will be some 16 million...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the release of SystemVue 2011.03, a leading system-level communications design environment. With this release, SystemVue now enables wireless system architects and system-on-chip designers to validate multiband, high-transistor-count wireless IC designs accurately against the latest communications standards. Until now, wireless communications architects have lacked the accurate...

Linear Technology Corp. announces a new high reliability (MP-grade) version of the LT3511, a high voltage isolated monolithic flyback regulator that operates over a -55° to 150°C junction temperature range. This device simplifies the design of an isolated DC/DC converter since it needs no optocoupler, third winding or signal...

INTEGRATED Engineering Software , developer of hybrid simulation tools for electromagnetic, thermal and structural design analysis, releases CHRONOS, its new time domain solver and high frequency tool for modeling and simulating 3D RF and microwave applications. The software has been introduced to address the challenge of the modeling and...

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue increased 19.4 percent for Q4 2010 to $1507.7 M, compared to $1262.7 M in Q4 2009. Sequential EDA revenue for Q4 2010 increased 15.4 percent compared to Q3 2010, while the four-quarters...

As the editors put the finishing touches on our May MTT-S IMS show issue, I would like to thank all of our advertisers for their support. You have allowed us to publish an exceptional issue with loads of editorial content, due to the high volume of ads. I think...

Rakon's new RFPT200 is a 7 x 5 mm surface-mount digitally-controlled, temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (DC-TCXO), which brings together frequency stability, digital frequency control, a separate low frequency output and embedded timer and alarm functionality; all controlled via a standard SPI interface. What sets it apart from other TCXOs is...