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Microsemi Corp. has announced four additions to its DRF family of RF MOSFET drivers and hybrid RF driver/MOSFETs. Designated the DRF200 switch mode driver, the DRF1201 and DRF1202 single-channel hybrids, and the DRF1300 dual channel hybrid, the new devices are targeted at 2 to 50 MHz, high power, high...

The IEC 61000-4-3 has been used for many years as the basic test standard for radiated electromagnetic field immunity testing in order to satisfy one of many European Union requirements for the CE mark. This standard is usually used in conjunction with a product standard that will specify this...

Today’s circuit designers are tasked with creating a high performance product that will stand out in a market crowded with competition. Yet relying on standard 50 Ω MMIC “gain block” devices makes it increasingly difficult for the RF designer to differentiate the specified performance of their radio product. One...

3D electromagnetic simulation is not only being used for the well established applications of antenna and microwave design, but issues associated with EMC, EMI, ESD and shielding also mean that it is playing an increasingly important role in the product development process across a wide range of applications. To...

As cell phone manufacturers add more features to their products, there is less space for the cellular radio. What was the board area allocation for the cellular radio several years ago now must also include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® and GPS radios. In addition, there is now the added complication associated...

Fred Miller, founder of West Bond Inc., passed away on April 21, 2007, from complications a week after a fall. Over 40 years ago, in 1966, Miller bootstrapped his own company West Bond, which became West Bond Inc. in 1968, giving the microelectronic world the first X-Y-Z micromanipulator breakthrough...

Strategy Analytics, the research and consulting company, released “RF Industry Review October– December 2006,” which notes that leading suppliers of RF components continued to report significant profits in Q4 on strong wireless handsets and wireless system demand. In the fourth quarter of 2006, the majority of RF component suppliers...

Since the end of 2006, several modem vendors have launched or announced development of USB cellular modems. A new study from ABI Research reveals a growing and increasingly competitive market and forecasts shipments of these modems in excess of 22 million by 2012. According to principal analyst Dan Shey,...

According to Lance Wilson, research director, semiconductors, at ABI Research, “High power radio frequency ICs have been ‘flying under the radar’ for the last couple of years. There are a lot more being sold than people realize. Readers of a new study we have just published will be very...

Vendors of solutions based on silicon and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) face an uphill battle to make a dent in the huge market for timing devices, according to a study from ABI Research. The market was and is dominated by quartz crystal oscillator technology. Most of the largest crystal oscillator...