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The finite element method (FEM) has been widely adopted as an analysis and design tool in many electrical engineering disciplines such as antennas, microwave and signal integrity. An FEM solver offers several important advantages over other numerical methods, including method of moments (MoM) or finite difference time domain (FDTD)....

Figure 1 Reader-Transponder-reader link in the passive UHF RFID system. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic wireless technology for data transfer developed in the 1970s. This technology has been developing in recent years and has become popular in many service industries, purchasing and distribution logistics, industry, manufacturing companies...

Raytheon Co. has received a contract from Boeing for the production of advanced APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array radars. The US Air Force and the US Air National Guard will receive radars from the contract and deliveries will begin in the second quarter of 2011. The radars are intended...

With prizes worth $25,000 on offer, registration has opened for NXP Semiconductors’ first-ever High Performance RF Design Challenge , which invites RF engineers and students worldwide to submit creative application ideas for RF power devices. RF power transistors have traditionally been used in telecommunications, aerospace and broadcast infrastructure, as...

Surrey NanoSystems has announced the first sales of its innovative new nanomaterial growth system, the NanoGrowth-Catalyst, to the École Polytechnique of Montreal, and the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), UK. These research organizations have chosen the NanoGrowth-Catalyst as a platform for their work on materials including carbon...

A seven-year, £47 M contract has been awarded to BAE Systems by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide support for the Combat Management System (CMS) on the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus. The JSS is being delivered by BAE Systems employees in...

The Sumitomo/Thales Joint Venture has signed a contract worth nine billion yen (approximately €80 M) with the Philippines’ Department of Transportation & Communications (DoTC) for the nationwide modernization of the Philippines Communications, Navigation Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) facilities and systems. Thales will deploy its latest generation Eurocat...

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has selected Agilent Technologies Inc. as the supplier of RF test equipment for its Virtus IC design center of excellence. The move is designed to build a long-term relationship focusing on the growing education market in Asia. Virtus aims to be a world-class design...

Rosenberger of North America LLC has completed the relocation of its factory and offices to a newly remodeled fifty two thousand square foot (52,000 sq. ft.) facility in Akron, PA. “The new factory and office complex is 12 miles north of the company’s current location and offers room for...

Fundamentally, cognitive radar refers to the next generation of adaptive radar that has unprecedented transmit-receive adaptivity and diversity, along with “intelligent” high performance embedded computing; in other words, the radar adapts “intelligently” to its environment based on a plurality of potential information sources. 1,2 Consider the definition of cognition...