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Polar Instruments is a provider of signal integrity tools and high-speed test equipment and services. Headquartered in Great Britain, Polar Instruments has a 40+ year history of providing advance design, test, and repair technology to the electronics industry.

Doodle Labs is proud to announce the industry first Prism family of full duplex front-end subsystems (FES). The Prism FES dramatically improves the operating range; receive sensitivity and interference rejection characteristics of the wireless adapters used in many wireless communication standards like WLAN. These field proven front-end subsystems shorten the design and regulatory certification time and enable System Integrators to quickly introduce modems operating in different frequency bands.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc. extended its offering of TrenchFET® p-channel Gen III power MOSFETs with a new device that offers the lowest on-resistance ever for a p-channel MOSFET. Designed to increase efficiency in mobile computing devices, the -20 V Vishay Siliconix Si7157DP offers on-resistance of 0.0016 Ω and 0.0020 Ω at -10 V and -4.5 V ratings, respectively.

Airbiquity Inc., the global leader in connected vehicle services, and Baidu, the leading Chinese internet services provider, announced a partnership to provide connected car internet services to the Chinese automotive market beginning in first quarter 2014.

OEwaves Inc., a leader in innovative microwave photonic products and solutions, announced that it has been ranked among the top 20 in the world on the 2013 Semiconductor Manufacturing Patent Power Ranking by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

API Technologies Corp., a leading provider of high performance RF/microwave, power, and security solutions for critical and high-reliability applications, is now offering a switched multiplexer that includes an integrated low noise amplifier (LNA). 

Anritsu Co. announces that it has validated 100 percent of the tests required by NTT DoCoMo for the Summer 2014 model mobile phones using the flexible ME7834L Mobile Device Test Platform. Achievement of this level of validation uniquely positions the ME7834L as the only test system with the ability to offer complete coverage for DoCoMo requirements, building on Anritsu’s #1 positions for Summer 2013 and Winter 2013 test requirements.

Custom MMIC, a developer of performance-driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), announces the release of a new, easy-to-use Attenuator Calculator to its suite of free online tools. The company also offers Cascade Analysis, Thermal Analysis, and Image Rejection calculators.

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS), the global wireless and broadcast infrastructure specialist, announced double-digit growth for several of its key North American product lines in 2013. This follows a record-breaking year in 2012, further strengthening RFS’ position as a leading provider of end-to-end solutions for indoor and outdoor wireless applications.

Wi-Fi is a hot topic among car OEMs and a small number of luxury brands have already launched LTE-based Wi-Fi hotspot solutions during the past twelve months. Most major OEMs plan to follow suit with some, such as GM, claiming that it will start offering LTE-based Wi-Fi hotspot solutions in its vehicles in 2014.