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October 2010 HSPICE Enhances Speed and Capacity By David Vye, MWJ Last month, Synopsys announced HSPICE® Precision Parallel (HPP) multi-threading technology would be a significant enhancement to the next release of the analog/mixed-signal circuit simulator HPICE 2010. The new capability, which utilizes a scalable multi-core engine, delivers up to...

The investment of €1.5 M has enabled EADS Defence & Security (DS) to extend the clean-room capacity of its Microwave Factory (MWF) in Ulm, Germany, for the production of microwave modules, to approximately 2,000 square meters. The extension increases the factory’s high-tech capacity for specialized high-performance electronics, e.g. next...

Eutelsat Communications has selected Thales Alenia Space to build a 40-transponder Ku-band satellite enabling a 50 percent increase in capacity operated at its 21.5° East location in geostationary orbit. Scheduled for launch in the third quarter of 2012, the satellite will replace Eutelsat's W6 craft at a core neighborhood...

Investment holding company Sekunjalo Investment Ltd. , led by its chairman M. Iqbal Survé, has become a new strategic partner to Saab AB and has taken up a shareholding in Saab South Africa (PTY) Ltd. It is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and a majority black-owned and black-controlled...

Orbit Technologies Ltd. has received an order to supply Telespazio , a joint venture of Finmeccanica and Thales, with high performance stabilized marine satellite communications systems to be installed onboard oil and gas industry platforms worldwide. This latest venture brings the orders from Telespazio for Orbit systems to $1.1...

Radiall has introduced its new cost-effective ECG cable assemblies and SpO2 interface cables for OEMs that provide patient monitoring equipment in the global marketplace. In addition to the standard range, these cables and connectors can be customized and designed in a wide variety of cable, connector and contact, and...

Endwave Corp. , a provider of high frequency RF devices and integrated subsystems, has announced the release of its EWV0800YF series of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) with dual outputs with total frequency coverage of 7.3 to 8.8 GHz and 3.65 to 4.4 GHz. Based on 2 μm InGaP/GaAs heterojunction-bipolar-transistor (HBT)...

United Monolithic Semiconductor (UMS), a European leader in microwave and millimeter-wave MMIC solutions, is celebrating the first year of operation of its new design and customer support center in the United States. Located in Lowell, MA, United Monolithic Semiconductors USA Inc. increases UMS's presence to better serve its expanding...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and a provider of RF integrated circuits, is introducing a TruPwr® RF power detector for 3G and 4G mobile terminals. The ADL5505 TruPwr RF power detector is a highly accurate, easy-to-use device for determining the RMS...

Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, the University of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government are partnering to establish a AU$10 M research centre that will be devoted to innovation in energy-efficient networks and technologies. Bell Labs and the University of Melbourne will share governance of the Centre for Energy-Efficient...