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Agilent Technologies has a new catalog that contains 215 pages of in-depth information on RF and microwave switches, attenuators, amplifiers, and other test accessories, including adaptors, detectors, directional couplers, power dividers, splitters and terminations. New product highlights and easy-to-read product selection and comparison tables help you find just the...

Integration to reduce system size, while still maintaining performance levels achieved by discrete solutions has been a main focus across multiple industries. Recently, Analog Devices developed a series of highly integrated IQ demodulators with a fractional-N phase locked loop (PLL), a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and multiple low drop-out regulators...

Microwave Journal Waveguide Newsletter View in Browser | View on Mobile December 6, 2011 Letter From the Publisher   'Tis the Season Carl Sheffres, Publisher, Microwave Journal It is the month of December, and thoughts naturally turn to the holidays and time off with family and friends. It is...

Microwave Journal Waveguide Newsletter View in Browser | View on Mobile November 15, 2011 Letter From the Publisher   The New Media Kits are Here! The New Media Kits are Here! Carl Sheffres, Publisher, Microwave Journal Like Steve Martin in " The Jerk " when the new phone books...

Modelithics Inc. has released the latest version of its linear and nonlinear system level model libraries for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave device and components. The Modelithics COMPLETE Library version 8.0 for AWR’s Microwave Office™ software introduces 46 new Global Models for passive RLCs, and 18 new nonlinear models for...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the industry’s first secure digital ultra-high speed card-compliance test software. The new SD UHS-II bus interface technology increases secure digital performance with data rates up to 1.56 Gb/sec in consumer electronics applications. The compliance test package helps designers accelerate the development of SD UHS-II card-based...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced it has commenced volume production of multiple 3G/4G power amplifiers (PA), in support of two leading smartphone families. The two most recent smartphones supported by RFMD feature RFMD's PowerSmart™ power platform and RFMD's RF724x family of ultra-high efficiency power amplifiers. The first smartphone,...

A new report by Mobile Experts predicts strong purchases of filter and tower-mounted amplifier products by North American mobile operators over the next five years. The overall market total will reach $260 M during 2011, with a step in future growth coming from rising LTE deployment. The overall market...

In a recent market study, researchers estimated that by the year 2015, manufacturers will be shipping more than a billion IEEE 802.11ac radios annually. The figure is impressive, especially because 802.11ac does not yet exist as a public standard. So one may be wondering, "What is this 802.11ac specification...

The US Army's Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate has awarded a contract to SRC Inc., formerly Syracuse Research Corp., for the development of an Omni-Directional Weapon Location (OWL) radar system. The contract includes a 32-month award valued at approximately $9 M. Under the terms of this contract, SRC will...