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EDI CON China 2017, a conference that brings together engineers working on high-frequency analog and high-speed digital designs, taking place April 25-27 at the Shanghai Convention Center & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing (Shanghai, China), announces the keynote speaker for this year’s event will be Peter Rabbeni, Sr. Director RF BU Product Marketing at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Rabbeni will bring his significant insights on semiconductor technology to bear on his talk entitled, “Technologies for the Next Wave of Mobile Data.”

Rogers Corp. and its Advanced Connectivity Solutions technical team will be presenting the latest developments in printed-circuit-board (PCB) materials for emerging high-frequency applications at the upcoming IPC APEX EXPO 2017 (www.ipcapexexpo.org), February 14-16, 2017 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Tektronix, a leading worldwide provider of measurement solutions, today introduced the industry’s first receiver test solution with 100 percent coverage of the MIPI Alliance’s recently released D-PHY v.2.0 specification along with full support for the C-PHY v1.1 receiver test specification.

Cavendish Kinetics announced that its SmarTune RF MEMS antenna tuners have been adopted by 40 different smartphone models from 10 manufacturers, including the Samsung Galaxy A8. This traction and Tier 1 design win highlight the market recognition and acceptance of RF MEMS' benefits and the technology's potential to improve smartphone performance and user experience.

Skyworks is pleased to introduce the SKY66105-11, a new high performance, highly integrated RF front-end module (FEM) designed for high power Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) and Connected Home applications operating within the 902 to 931 MHz frequency band.  This FCC-compliant module integrates harmonic filters and shielding, making it an ideal design choice for sensors, smart meters (water, gas, electric) and machine-to-machine uses.

NI AWR Design Environment Version 13 now offers an improved flow between AWR Connected™ for Sonnet^® and Sonnet Suites Version 16.54 using the latest EM Socket II architecture.

Pickering Interfaces, a leading provider of modular signal switching and simulation for electronic test and verification, has expanded their range of High-Density 2 Amp PXI Multiplexers.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. and Ixia announced a definitive agreement for Keysight to acquire Ixia in an all-cash transaction of approximately $1.6 billion. Ixia provides testing, visibility and security solutions that strengthen applications across physical and virtual networks.

Having been involved in its development Flann Microwave’s engineers are celebrating the publication of IEEE 1785 standard that will define how waveguide is used for decades to come.

When launched on 27 January 2017 Hispasat 36W-1 (AG-1) became the first satellite to use active Ku-Band antennas, which were supplied by Airbus Defence and Space.