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microRF Europe , the newly formed Pan-European distributor of microwave and RF components and devices, which is part of the AML group, has announced an agreement with two of the industry’s largest worldwide brands, Omni Spectra® and XMA. The agreement comes into effect on 2 November 2009 and microRF...

Teledyne Electronics and Communications Europe has combined the resources of Teledyne Coax Switches and Teledyne Reynolds through the Teledyne Europe sales and marketing team. The European team is offering a package of microwave switching and interconnect products with next level design, manufacture and integration. Each individual product is a...

After many years of charting a solo course, in 2008 the RF & Hyper Europe trade show joined four others, running alongside l’Electronique, Mesurexpo, Opto and the Vision-Show . This year there were two more additions to the family for the three-day event as Espace Laser Paris and Forum...

AWR , an innovation leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announced that its Simulation Technology and Applied Research (STAAR) division, which develops Analyst™ 3D finite element method (FEM) software, has been awarded three grants for US government-sponsored research projects through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Two...

TriQuint Semiconductor , a leading RF products manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced that it has been awarded a $16.2 M Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) multi-year Gallium Nitride (GaN) R&D contract to create complex, high dynamic range circuits for future defense and aerospace applications. TriQuint received its...

The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit of Motorola, Inc. announced the PTP 800 licensed microwave point-to-point (PTP) Ethernet solution operating in the 11, 18, 23 and 26 GHz frequency bands. Enterprise and government customers as well as service providers can deploy the Motorola PTP 800 to cost-effectively backhaul users’...

Mimix Asia , a supplier of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) for microwave and millimeter-wave applications, introduced a DC to 18 GHz GaAs MMIC attenuator in a 4 x 4 mm QFN package. This attenuator, identified as XA1000-QH, is digitally controlled with 5 bit operation and a least significant...

Falcon Electric Inc. , a manufacturer of Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) and exhibitor at the MILCOM 2009 Expo (booth #223), announced a new long-life battery in its SSG Series™ Industrial-Grade UPS Plus® product line. For environments with temperatures that typically exceed 40°C, like a factory floor, a desert setting...

Aeroflex announced it will deliver a non-signaling PXI solution customized for RF production line test of Infineon ’s second-generation ultra low-cost mobile phone platform. The solution, based on the Aeroflex PXI 3000 Series, will test Infineon’s second-generation ultra low-cost chipset (X-GOLD™ 101). The primary challenges facing mobile phone handset...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced that it has secured multiple high-volume design wins for its RF2815 GPS LNA module. The design wins are in support of multiple upcoming 3G smartphones and 3G data cards, and volume production is expected to commence in RFMD's December 2009 quarter, with a...