RF & Microwave Industry News

Qorvo announces appointment of Mark J. Murphy as CFO

Qorvo®, a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications, today announced the appointment of Mark J. Murphy, 48, as chief financial officer, effective June 6, 2016. Murphy will report to Bob Bruggeworth, president and chief executive officer of Qorvo, and will succeed Steven J. Buhaly, who previously announced his intention to retire from the company in 2016.


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Eastern OptX 1100 series creates ‘moving target’ radar scenarios

Eastern OptX is showing a radar target scenario generator designed to put a radar test range on your test bench. The Eastern OptX Series 1100 Radar Target Simulator is a true propagation path replicator. The Series 1100 receives the signal transmitted from a radar system and adds the round-trip propagation delay associated with the target distance. That signal is then output to the radar receiver.


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Molex delivers growing range of integrated RF/microwave solutions at IMS2016

Molex will display its innovative, diverse portfolio of RF/Microwave connectors and cable assemblies in booth 1911 at the IEEE 2016 International Microwave Symposium (IMS), held May 22–27 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif. Molex develops and delivers integrated RF/Microwave solutions for multiple industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, medical, instrumentation, telecom and wireless.


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NXP introduces portfolio of broadband LDMOS RF ICs for outdoor small cell base stations

NXP Semiconductors N.V. introduced the industry’s largest portfolio of broadband 28 V LDMOS two-stage, dual-path Doherty-optimized Integrated Circuits (ICs) for small cell base stations. As part of NXP’s leading RF power transistor portfolio, the new LDMOS ICs are designed to provide RF power, efficiency, and gain in all current and proposed frequency bands, from 700 to 3800 MHz, with RF output power of 2.5 to 12 W.


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Anokiwave extends SATCOM core IC family with Ka-Band Tx solution

Anokiwave Inc., an innovative company providing highly integrated core IC solutions for mmW markets and AESA based terminals, announced the worldwide release of the Ka-Band Tx Core IC family for earth terminal SATCOM applications. This Tx IC family coupled with Anokiwave’s K-Band SATCOM Rx ICs provide a complete K/Ka-Band earth terminal solution enabling auto-alignment of fixed earth terminals and auto pointing for SATCOM on the move applications using GEO satellite space assets.


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