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Anritsu Co. (booth #717) will highlight its leadership position in high-speed digital test – displaying the industry’s only solution that supports 112G PAM4 generation and BER tests with accurate jitter injection – at DesignCon 2016. The new solution, which features the award-winning MP1800A BERT Signal Quality Analyzer (SQA) and new 64G baud 2-bit DAC with MUX, is part of a portfolio of test solutions and technologies that Anritsu will showcase to help engineers verify high-speed chip, board, and system designs used for emerging networks.

Ericsson and Huawei have agreed on extending their global patent license agreement between the two companies. The agreement includes a cross license that covers patents relating to both companies’ wireless standard-essential patents (including the GSM, UMTS and LTE cellular standards). Under the agreement, both companies are able to access and implement the other company’s standard essential patents and technologies globally.

Qorvo^®, a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, announced it has expanded its broad portfolio of Wi-Fi products to include new front end modules (FEMs) designed for wireless broadband home gateways and set-top-boxes. Qorvo is an innovator in highly integrated front end modules for Wi-Fi that combine best-in-class performance with up to 3.2 watts of power savings.

CRFS, a leader in RF spectrum monitoring solutions, has supplied NASA Kennedy Space Center with RFeye real-time signal monitoring, direction finding and geolocation systems. The NASA Electromagnetic Lab (EML) provides ground and flight systems with radio frequency detection, electromagnetic interference troubleshooting, and electromagnetic interference triangulation.Their mission includes 24/7 monitoring of RF emissions across the site to ensure safety and to mitigate undesirable signals interference.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (“MACOM”) announced a teaming agreement that establishes MACOM as Northrop Grumman Corp.’s exclusive teaming partner for the development and manufacture of radar arrays that use MACOM’s active antenna technology to target a wide range of defense programs and platforms.

Fairview Microwave Inc., a supplier of on-demand microwave and RF components, announces a brand new line of high-reliability SPDT surface mount electromechanical RF switches that cover broadband frequencies from DC to 8 GHz. These new RF switches offer exceptional reliability and repeatable performance which make them an ideal solution for demanding industries and applications related to aerospace, defense, industrial, telecom, instrumentation, medical devices and many others.

The NYU WIRELESS research center announced it will build an advanced programmable platform to rapidly design, prototype, and validate technologies vital for the millimeter wave (mmWave) radio spectrum, which is potentially key to launching the next ultra-high-data-rate generation of wireless communication, or 5G.

II‐VI Inc., a leader in semiconductor lasers, announced that it signed agreements to acquire EpiWorks Inc. and ANADIGICS Inc. These two businesses that will expand II‐VI's technology platforms and production capacity for semiconductor lasers with a scalable 6‐inch epitaxial growth and wafer fabrication platform.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that the Keysight UXM Wireless Test Set is now fully integrated and supported by WaveStudio, MVG’s OTA dedicated measurement software suite. As an integral part of MVG’s OTA measurement solution, the UXM has been used to provide support for carrier aggregation; an important LTE-A feature that requires advanced test and measurement.

Trescal, the international specialist in calibration services has acquired Primo Instrument, based in Montreal, Canada.