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Antennas Fleet Management Antenna System The Turtle antenna system contains a dual-band GSM antenna for data and voice communication and a GPS antenna. Designed to provide a link between vehicles and the fleet management system, each multifunctional antenna combines (for example) a GPS module with one or more antennas...

PROCESSING EQUIPMENT Semi-automatic EMI Gaskets The GORE-SHIELD® STACCATO PLUS II™ installation system rapidly and accurately installs GORE-SHIELD EMI gaskets and is designed for use in medium-volume production of shielding components for use in hand-held portable devices such as cellular telephones, wireless local area networks and wireless PCMCIAs. The installation...

Devices 25 GHz High Frequency Silicon Transistors The models NE661M04, NE662M04 and NE663M04 high frequency silicon transistors are housed in an ultra-miniature, low profile M04 package with a footprint that's less than half the size of the SOT-143. The M04 package is just 0.55 mm high and features a...

Materials Chip Scale Package The CSP family chip scale package with stacked die feature is available in a variety of body sizes and ball arrays (0.8 mm pitch), enabling adaptability to creative IC combinations in memory or logic configuration. The CSP package's small footprint allows OEM designers and engineers...

Software Mesh Generator The Mesh Generator™ is a Tecplot add-on that enables users to easily create a variety of two-dimensional computational meshes and build structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes in minutes. Adding Mesh Generator to Tecplot gives users a single system for pre- and post-processing and provides the power...

Sources Wide-pull VCXOs These wide-pull voltage-controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO) for use in various phased-lock loop (PLL)-based designs are available from 2 to 200 MHz and have a wider pull range of +/-200 to 300 ppm with good linearity. These sinewave VCXOs are available in small quantities in a through...

Around the Circuit Industry News Watkins-Johnson Co. , Palo Alto, CA, has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Telecommunications Group business to Marconi North America , a subsidiary of The General Electric Co. plc of the UK. The pre-adjusted purchase price of $57.9 M, based upon a balance...

New Literature DC Parametric Measurement Application Note This application note explores the recent advances in DC parametric measurements, including new parametric testers and new parametric wafer probers that reduce system capacitance and noise levels and resolve common measurement problems such as low measurement resolution and high noise. Methods to...

Catalog Update Antenna and RF Component & Repeater Catalogs The 104-page antenna catalog describes retractable, dual-band, inverted, cellular phone, ceramic, directional, reflector, yagi and patch antennas. The 106-page RF component and repeater catalog describes amplifiers, RF switches, attenuators, active mixers, bandpass filters, isolators, combiners, dividers and couplers. Ace Technology...

News From Washington Joint Venture Awarded $500 M from NATO Air Command Systems International, a joint venture equally owned by Raytheon Co. and Thomson-CSF, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $500 M from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Air Command and Control Management Agency for the...