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Southwest Antennas announced the release of four new high gain 90° sector antenna designs specifically for use with 2X2 and 4X4 MIMO radio systems. These new high gain 90° sector antenna designs are available in both 2X2 and 4X4 MIMO input options covering the 2.2 to 2.5 GHz Federal Law Enforcement and ISM Broadcast S-Bands or the 4.4 to 5.0 GHz Federal Law Enforcement C-Band.

The 802.11ad (WiGig) chipset market is set to reach a critical juncture in 2017 when the technology hits higher adoption levels in the mobile and computing space. ABI Research forecasts 180 million WiGig chipsets will ship to the smartphone market in 2017, with smartphone chipsets accounting for almost half of the 1.5 billion total market shipments in 2021.

Start-up SAW filter designer Resonant has signed another licensing agreement with an existing "tier one" customer, this design an integrated module that combines a duplexer and quadplexer. These two designs bring the total number with this customer to seven.

Modelithics Inc., the industry leader in simulation models for RF, microwave, and millimeter wave devices, announces the availability of new Microwave Global Models™ for Passive Plus 0505C and 1111C surface mount chip capacitor families. 

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) introduced the AD9164 D/A converter that brings high resolution radar images for designers of military and commercial radar while reducing solution component count. The new device ensures improved accuracy as well as speed of test, contributing to faster market-ready time while significantly decreasing tester complexity and size. 

EDI CON USA 2016 is pleased to announce that James Komiak, Ph.D., renowned amplifier expert and Global Engineering/Scientific Fellow at BAE Systems, will be kicking off the conference’s amplifier track on Tuesday September 20 at 9:30 a.m. with a keynote talk. Taking place September 20-22 in Boston, Mass. at the Hynes Convention Center, the EDI CON USA conference and exhibition brings together engineers working on high-frequency analog and high-speed digital designs for learning and networking opportunities.  

Knowles Capacitors will be at European Microwave Week 2016 in force with a selection of new products across its brands – DLI, Novacap and Syfer. 

A postgraduate student from the University of Bristol is the joint recipient of five separate awards in recognition of their world record achievement in 5G wireless spectrum efficiency using Massive MIMO. The announcement was made at the 22nd annual NIWeek conference in Austin, Texas, at the National Instruments (NI) Engineering Impact Awards ceremony.

The electronic test and measurement (T&M) industry has been taken by storm lately with trends such as Internet of Things (IoT), millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies, and 5G suggesting significant changes in requirements for test equipment thus opening up opportunities for vendors, according to Frost & Sullivan.

Pickering Interfaces will showcase their broad range of PXI and LXI RF & Microwave switching solutions, along with their soon-to-be-released 2-slot USB/LXI Modular Chassis and LXI Simulation Tool at EDI CON USA 2016 in booth 822 on September 20-22, 2016.