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Prototype Quantities On-line ATC QUIKBuy™ provides a site where customers may place on-line orders for small product quantities. ATC QUIKBuy offers the EIA-size ultra-low ESR capacitors, the 600F (0805) and 600S (0603). ATC has now expanded its on-line product offerings to include the 600L (0402), as well as RF...

Digital Vector Signal Analysis This combination of solutions tightly integrates the digital signal capture power of the company’s logic analyzers with its 89600 series vector signal analysis (VSA) software. The result is a powerful digital vector signal analysis measurement system that delivers precise, accurate modulation measurements on the digitized...

Modular test components have been with us for many years in many forms. Going back to the early ’70s I can remember HP BWO oscillator/sweeper mainframes with their plug-in modules to address the various extremely high frequencies above 1 GHz. While this modularity in test equipment exists today, a...

Whether imaging an asteroid at a range of 55 million miles (88 million km), guiding a strategic defense missile to its target with a monopulse tracking radar or launching a rocket propelled grenade in the blink of an eye as a counter-measure, it is easy to see how radar...

In a previous publication, 1 the author introduced a new dual-ridge horn that corrected the pattern problems of the traditional dual-ridge horn antenna. 2 All the parameters of this new horn, shown in Figure 1 , were measured and it was tested for use as an EMC immunity and...

MicroMetrics Inc. , a manufacturer of semiconductor devices for commercial and military communications, announced the expansion of its epitaxial growth and coating services for the semiconductor fabrication market. The newly expanded Londonderry, NH facility now includes seven Gemini Epi reactors. This dedicated business unit supports the growing of three,...

January is a very nice time to be visiting San Diego, CA, as the 2500 attendees of the first annual IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS 2006) found as they came in from various parts of the US and overseas. Winter tends to be long and cold for many...

Optimization has been applied to circuit design for decades. IBM pioneered circuit simulation-based optimizer research in the 1960s and ’70s. In the 1980s, the University of California at Berkeley extended the research with more exotic algorithms and interactivity with programs such as DELIGHT and ECSTACY. During the same period,...

The well known and widely used "Termination-VSWR" method, used to measure the reflectivity of an absorber wall in an anechoic chamber, has been considerably modernized with the help of new vector network analyzers (VNA) and personal computers (PC), taking advantage of fast sweepers or synthesizers and of the time-domain...

In its latest Insight report, "Silicon-on-Sapphire Switches for Handsets: Stopgap or Disruptive Technology?," Strategy Analytics , the research and consulting company, evaluated CMOS silicon-on-sapphire (SoS) RF switches and found that SoS has begun to disrupt established approaches to transmit-receive (T/R) switching in multi-mode, multi-band cellular handsets. Peregrine Semiconductor has...