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NI (formerly AWR Corp.) announces that a student at Middle East Technical University (METU), located in Turkey, used NI AWR software to successfully design a true-time-delay phase shifter with center frequency at 35 GHz by means of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology.

Qorvo Inc., a leading provider of RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, today announced the addition of multiple new FDD/TDD products and reference designs, expanding the company's family of highly integrated front end solutions for the rapidly growing 4G market in China and other developing markets.

Tektronix introduced the TSG4100A, a vector signal generator (VSG) at the affordable price of a basic signal generator. The new RF signal generator complements other leading mid-range RF test solutions from Tektronix, such as the USB-based RSA306 spectrum analyzer, and mixed domain oscilloscopes.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, teams with Murata to announce the 2015 UltraCMOS® Global 1 Initiative. The campaign launches with the UltraCMOS Global 1 PE56500 product demo at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Hall 2, Meeting Room 2A28MR. This new initiative seamlessly integrates the PE56500 all-CMOS RF front-end solution and Murata filters.

Pasternack, a leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has expanded their lines of high frequency right angle RF adapters which are widely used in the military and commercial markets for applications such as wireless communications, test labs, equipment racks and many other space-limited applications.

Cobham Wireless, formerly Aeroflex wireless business unit,will be demonstrating a number of new developments in 4G LTE-A network test, IP network and NFV system service validation, and the development of algorithms for a 5G air interface, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, March 2-5, 2015.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NXP will merge with Freescale in a transaction which values the combined enterprise at just over $40 billion.

Anritsu Co. announced it has developed a turnkey small cell manufacturing test solution with Cavium Inc. that also supports technologies such as cellular, WLAN 802.11ac, Bluetooth®, ZigBee (802.15.4), and location-based services (LBS). Leveraging the flexible MT8870A Universal Test Set platform, Anritsu is addressing the growing need for small cell test solutions that can lower the cost of test and speed time to market of next-generation wireless chipsets and devices.

Indium Corp. has hired two new engineering managers, Carmen Salvatore and (James) Jung Jin-Young. Salvatore will provide leadership and direction to the engineering team at the company’s Business Park Drive facility in Utica, N.Y. Jung will oversee the engineering and quality teams at the company’s facility in Cheongju, Korea.

Operating in the 60 and 80 GHz bands, millimeter wave radio equipment from Siklu is now integrated in the Alcatel-Lucent microwave small cells backhaul portfolio.