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San-tron Inc. , a manufacturer of RF coaxial connectors and cable assemblies, has released “An introduction to San-tron S292™ Connectors,” a video in which San-tron’s Director of Engineering, Fred Hull, talks about the company’s latest product release, the S292 40 GHz connector. The video is the first installment in...

AWR® Corp. has released Update 2 to its 2010 Release of Microwave Office®, Analog Office®, Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) and AXIEM™ software solutions. Specific additions to the release include: • two-port negation model, based on short-open calibration for de-embedding • Multi-level bond wire model • VSS WINIQSIM2 block for...

Capital expenditure on mobile backhaul varies greatly by region and by technology. While most countries face similar current or future struggles to reduce network congestion, the solutions being adopted differ according to existing infrastructure, network generations, and government mandates and incentives. One major division is whether to use optic...

With the widespread adoption of multi-channel MRI systems using parallel imaging, the design and optimization of receive coil arrays has become imperative, while also being complex. Nevertheless, coil optimization techniques and performance verification are essential steps when designing coil arrays. To address this issue, a novel software platform combines...

The versatile APPH6000 signal analyzer from AnaPico enables the fast and accurate measurement of single-sideband phase noise and amplitude noise, which play an important role in many RF and microwave designs, especially when developing crystal and voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO), pre-scalers, frequency converters and synthesizer phase locked loops (PLL). It...

Freescale Semiconductor has developed a RF LDMOS power transistor designed for operation from 1.8 to 600 MHz and optimized for use under the potentially-destructive impedance mismatch conditions encountered in applications such as CO 2 lasers, plasma generators and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The new MRFE6VP61K25H FET is the...

To achieve higher power levels for Laterally Diffused MOS (LDMOS) transistors, NXP has developed a 50 V process that features the highest power density for LDMOS to date and is featured in the company’s BLF57x family. The excellent power capabilities, gain, efficiency, linearity and reliability of LDMOS transistors make...

AR’s Knowledge Center The AR Knowledge Center is a convenient virtual library featuring the company’s complete educational and informative offerings including software and software updates, application notes, newsworthy articles and exciting product demonstrations. All materials are available for download including the Orange Book of Knowledge. AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation, 160...

Tektronix Service Solutions , a single-source provider of instrument calibration, repair and related services, announced the expansion of services into Canada with a new service lab in Mississauga, Ontario. The expansion provides enhanced service options and added flexibility for companies that rely on their test, measurement and control instrumentation...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a provider of high performance radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (IC), and Soitec (Euronext Paris), a supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and advanced solutions for the electronics and energy industries, announced the joint development and ramp in production of a new bonded silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) substrate...