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The Estonian government has signed the contract for the new Estonian Air Defence System—the Very Short Range Air Defence Missile System (VSHORADMS). Following fierce competition between leading European and US defence companies the contract, valued at around €60 M, was awarded to MBDA and Saab. The VSHORADMS is based...

Strategy Analytics analysts, speaking at the plenary sessions of both the IEEE CSIC Symposium and the Power Amplifier Symposium, reaffirmed that GaAs technologies will continue to dominate the radio front-end in cellular handsets, despite competition from silicon technologies. The move toward 3G and beyond, coupled with the need to...

Those who remember the night of December 2, 1984, when water accidentally entered a methylisocyanate storage tank at a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, will understand the importance of monitoring industrial processes. Gauges measuring the temperature and pressure were known to be unreliable, so staff ignored early signs...

Long Term Evolution (LTE) of 3G technologies is about to benefit from Rel-8 of the 3GPP standard, planned for the third quarter of 2007. This will be the trigger for development of components and systems to provide 100 Mbps download speeds to mobile devices. According to a new study...

These are the words that can label you as a non-believer and a heretic. For the telecom industry, thoughts like this must be exterminated before they spread like a virus. Yet, recently an example of how little technology matters surfaced. Deutsche Telekom (DT) killed its Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) service....

• Laird Technologies , a designer and manufacturer of antenna solutions, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding products, telematics, signal integrity products and thermal management solutions, announced the acquisition of AeroComm for $38 M. • Spectrum Control Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that...

High linearity and high efficiency are important design issues in a high power amplifier for base station applications in modern wireless communications. High efficiency power amplifiers, combined with high linearity, have been very desirable. The Doherty amplifier is a technique for improving the efficiency at high output power back-off....

Module designs, and specifically handset power amplifier (PA) and front-end module (FEM) designs, are at a crossroads. Traditionally, the module has been an integration platform for discrete functional blocks enabled by considerable design margin, reasonable size and power constraints, and the luxury of predicted performance from cascaded analysis. Although...

Over the past 50 years crystal oscillators have become ubiquitous wherever a stable reference is needed in RF systems. The new Pascall OCXO has been developed to address the most critical applications where ultra-low noise is required; for example, as a reference for phase noise measurement, or as the...

A new class of very high input analog bandwidth and high sampling rate track-and-hold amplifiers (THA) has been developed for test and measurement, automatic test equipment (ATE), digital receivers and radar systems using a commercially available indium phosphide (InP) technology. Inphi® Corp.’s GigaTrack™ family of 2 GS/s track-and-hold amplifiers...