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TriQuint Semiconductor , an RF products manufacturer and foundry services provider, will showcase an extensive portfolio of integrated RF products for base transceiver station (BTS) radios at the European Microwave Conference. TriQuint products reduce the size and complexity of RF circuitry by integrating multiple functions into modules. This enables...

Speaking in advance of European Microwave Week 2010, Jim Armentrout, Marketing Manager, EMEA, Agilent Technologies Inc. , told Microwave Journal that the company’s prime focus at the event is to demonstrate its capability for expanding the horizons of test. He stated, “Whether in terms of high performance, mm-waves, X-parameters...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , an RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced the release of its latest 150 mm Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) commercial foundry process, TQP15, to full production. TQP15 is targeted at the Ka-band segment and is designed for cost effectively building millimeter-wave MMICs for applications...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. has introduced four miniature 0402 diodes for high volume commercial and industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEM), original device manufacturers (ODM) and contract manufacturers (CM), all of which are offered in a low profile, plastic surface-mount technology (SMT) package. SMP1320-040LF is a PIN diode for handset, WLAN,...

Using NMDG extension kits for vector network analysers, users are able to characterise the nonlinear behaviour of HF components both in time and frequency domain under realistic conditions, even in a non-50 Ohm environment. NMDG announced that nonlinear characterisation under pulsed DC and pulsed RF conditions is now available...

NMDG is releasing its ultimate tool to collect and visualise measurement sweep plans. The new NMDG ICEBreaker application provides comprehensive visualisation of measurement data sets for free. For example, the user can analyse the behaviour of its component under multi-harmonic source and load mismatch conditions using source- and load-pull...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions (M/A-COM Tech) will showcase its extensive product solutions for Point-to-Point (PtP) backhaul radio, radar and MILCOM applications during the European Microwave Week (EuMW) exhibition. The company's booth (#90) will display innovative products and block diagram solutions, including: • 38 GHz Packaged Chipset Solution that includes an...

AWR Corp. announced the availability of a Microwave Office® 2010 design software library for Freescale Semiconductor ’s RF high-power models. Freescale’s validated RF high-power models enable power amplifier and base station designers to meet increasing performance demands with a cost-effective and timely solution. Freescale’s RF high-power model library includes...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the availability of an ultra high frequency (UHF) RF power transistor; the BLF888A is a 600 W LDMOS device for broadcast transmitters and industrial applications. The BLF888A is the most powerful LDMOS broadcast transistor in the market to date. For a DVB-T signal over the...

NEL Frequency Controls Inc. announced the release of its latest ultra low phase noise OCXO at 100 MHz. The O-CEXX Series at 100 MHz offers superior close-in phase noise of -105 dBc/Hz at 10 Hz and -178 dBc/Hz phase noise on the floor. The O-CEXX comes in a small,...