RF & Microwave Industry News

RSS

From fitness trackers and smart keys to chains, watches or wristbands – wearable manufacturers are challenged to equip even the smallest of devices with security and NFC technologies. The solution lies in a unique NFC security module series launched by Infineon Technologies AG in collaboration with Beijing-based Mobile Payment Solutions Co. Ltd. (MPS).

Collaboration between Ampleon and Midea into the use of solid state technology for compact oven design has resulted in Midea launching what is believed to be the first commercially available solid state RF energy oven.

NI has announced its support for CERN’s Beamline for Schools 2016 competition, which is run by the CERN & Society Foundation.

STMicroelectronics is now supplying its latest long-range (77 GHz) radar chips to leading automotive customers.

The Communications Authority of Kenya commissioned its new spectrum management and monitoring system (SMMS) from Rohde & Schwarz in March 2016. The solution includes both mobile and stationary components, which will be implemented across the country to regulate the frequency spectrum.

Products from Syfer Technology, a brand of Knowles, will now be available globally from Minnesota based, Digi-Key Electronics. Digi-Key are a worldwide full-service provider of both design and production quantities of electronic components from a range of quality name-brand manufacturers.

Coupling Wave Solutions S.A. (CWS), a leader in solutions for interference analysis in complex chip designs incorporating RF and analog blocks, announced the availability of a new productivity tool called SiPEX. SiPEX models the silicon substrate on insulators much faster than any other tools in its class and allows radio frequency (RF) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) designers to increase the number of design iterations—including spice simulation—up to 10 times in the same time frame.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, Calif.-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology Inc., has received a Ka-Band high-power amplifier contract for $1.3 million from a leading satellite communications (SATCOM) direct-to-home (DTH) television service provider.

Rogers Corp.’s Power Electronics Solutions (PES) group has introduced its latest high-performance cooling material, curamik® CoolPerformance Plus. curamik CoolPerformance Plus is an advanced liquid-cooled material designed to dissipate large amounts of heat and provide reliable thermal management of high-power laser diodes and other heat-generating optical devices.

Cobham and RFHIC will jointly develop GaN High Power Amplifier (HPA) modules that will be integrated into a prototype 175 kW solid-state transmitter. Development activities under this Memorandum of Agreement will be executed by Cobham Integrated Electronics Solutions, a business unit of CAES at its Exeter, N.H. site.