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Extending its portfolio of high performance RF solutions, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced a high-linearity, ultra-low noise quadrature (IQ) modulator that delivers RF output transmission up to 4 GHz, allowing service providers to easily support multiple wireless communications standards on a single RF transceiver card. TI’s TRF370317 IQ modulator...

OEwaves Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop frequency agile bandpass and notch filters to support agile receiver systems for military and communication applications. The filter development builds upon OEwaves’ proprietary photonics filter technology concept that provides wideband tunability. Such highly agile filters enhance receiver system performances and...

National Instruments announced the NI PXI-8108, a PXI embedded controller, and two new PXI system accessories, a 32 GB solid-state hard drive and the NI PXI-8250 system monitoring module. These new products provide increased system performance and reliability to help engineers and scientists achieve faster process execution, lower test...

Micronetics Inc. announced that Kevin Beals has been promoted to President and Carl Lueders has been appointed CFO. Since 2006, Beals has served as Vice President of New Business Development at Micronetics. Prior to his joining Micronetics, he served as District Sales Manager at M/A-COM Inc. During his 15...

Tyco Electronics M/A-COM announced the MASW-008955, a new DC-3.5 GHz SP3T RoHS compliant switch for applications that require high linearity, low insertion loss and fast settling time over a wide frequency range in an ultra small package size. “Typical applications for this product include filter and antenna switching in...

Entropic Communications Inc. , a provider of silicon solutions to enable connected home entertainment, announced the release of the RF5101, a new radio frequency integrated circuit recently added to its Band Translation Switch (BTS) product family. The chip was developed to meet the performance requirements of EchoStar Technologies and...

EMRISE Corp. , a multinational manufacturer of proprietary electronic devices and communications equipment for aerospace, defense, industrial and communications applications, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Eatontown, NJ-based Advanced Control Components Inc. (ACC). ACC is a supplier of high performance RF and microwave devices and subsystems that...

WiQuest Communications Inc. announced the availability of its complete, high-performance Wireless USB Platform based on its advanced new WQU210 single-chip, CMOS silicon. This latest platform is the first to enable new Gigabit bandwidth-intensive applications requiring unprecedented performance to be delivered in enterprise and consumer products, worldwide. “Our customers are...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a new software feature for handheld wireless measurements on its E6474A network optimization platform that turns a standard WiMAX PC Card (CPE) into the industry’s smallest WiMAX scanning solution for Drive Test. This new mode of operation gives network equipment manufacturers and wireless operators’ RF...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced that it has signed a five-year, multi-million dollar contract with Lockheed Martin to supply high-precision technical ceramic toroids and inserts for the Aegis Weapon System. This contract win reflects the company’s...