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Rogers Corp. ’s Advanced Circuit Materials Division (ACM) will demonstrate its impact on today’s – and tomorrow’s – world at the upcoming European Microwave Week trade show, scheduled for October 28-30, 2008, at the Amsterdam RAI, Hall 3, stand 313. Rogers' ACM will display examples of its high-performance circuit...

SMITHS Group plc has appointed Ralph L. Phillips president of Smiths Interconnect . Phillips, who had been acting president since May, has been appointed following a search process that included external and internal candidates. Smiths Interconnect designs and manufactures specialized electronic and radio frequency products primarily for the global...

AWR and United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) announced "Try the Power," an incentive program to allow new customers to bring gallium arsenide (GaAs) microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) design prototypes to market quickly and easily using AWR's Microwave Office electronic design automation (EDA) software and the UMS PPH25X foundry process...

The 45th Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention took place October 19 - 23 in Reno, NV with the theme of "Driving EW Concepts into Operational Realities.” The weather was beautiful and the Old Crows descended upon the town for a full dose of EW training, sessions and exhibition....

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced SystemVue 2008, a new electronic design automation (EDA) platform for electronic system-level (ESL) design. The new platform cuts physical layer (PHY) design time in half for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures, for both wireless and aerospace/defense applications. The new SystemVue 2008 platform goes beyond...

Pascall Electronics is pleased to announce an addition to the company's range of low phase noise ovenised crystal oscillators. The level ‘E’ offers a further 2 dB guaranteed improvement in phase noise on the level 1 performance. At 100 MHz the phase noise offered is -137 dBc/Hz at 100...

W.L. Gore & Associates (Gore) introduces an on-line builder for configuring GORE™ Ultra High Density (UHD) Interconnects to use in Bench Top Test Systems, Instrument Probe Cable, Parallel Data Link, Production Floor Equipment and Automated Test Equipment. GORE Ultra High Density (UHD) Interconnects provide an integrated system of board...

Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a 5 V InGaP HBT amplifier that combines medium power and high gain with low power consumption. This versatile, multi-purpose amplifier, identified as CGB8001-SC, consumes 100 mA of current and covers DC to 2.8 GHz frequency bands with 27 dBm P1dB and 15.5 dB gain...

National Instruments (NI) announces a new RF vector signal analyzer, RF vector signal generator and PXI Express 18-slot chassis that offer flexible RF measurements up to 10 times faster than traditional RF instrumentation. The new software-defined modular instruments – the NI PXIe-5663 6.6 GHz RF vector signal analyzer and...

Keithley Instruments Inc. introduces the Model 2308 Portable Device Battery/Charger Simulator, a dual-channel battery- and charger-simulating power supply designed to provide the lowest cost testing of both the growing range of mobile phones with new, complex transmission schemes and other types of new portable devices that consume extremely low...