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News Wrap Up - Week of Sept 29

Summary of the RF/Microwave news items for the week of Sept 29

News Wrap Up for the Week of Sept 29News wrap up

The news items for the week of Sept 29 were dominated by test and measurement as WiMAX World took place in Chicago. The show was busy but did not seem to have as much activity as last year as the WiMAX buzz has diminished a little with some struggling implementations and LTE coming on strong. Will the WiMAX buzz heat up again with some successful upcoming implementations or will LTE steal most of the headlines?

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Tektronix Provides Published Test Procedure

Tektronix Inc. , a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced availability of the first published test procedures for physical layer testing of the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 standard. Tektronix provides a comprehensive high speed serial data test suite for the SATA physical layer design and debug. Complete...
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GaAs Wafer User Ratings Fail to Pick Overall Winner

Strategy Analytics released results from its annual industry surveys rating GaAs bulk and epitaxial wafer suppliers. “GaAs Bulk and Epitaxial Wafer Vendor Ratings and Customer Satisfaction 2007” concludes that no one GaAs epitaxial substrate supplier was rated highly enough to be able to satisfy both the technical and commercial...
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EB Introduces Industry's First Radio Channel Emulator Platform To Take Next-Generation Wireless Testing Beyond Conformance

New emulator platform designed for wireless systems requiring wide bandwidths up to 125 MHz with MIMO for complete channel emulation of WiMAX, LTE, 4G and beyond
EB, a global technology leader in test tools for measuring, modeling and emulating radio channel environments, today announces a new radio channel emulation platform that exceeds the performance requirements for WiMAX, LTE and 4G testing to ensure that end users have the best possible wireless connection. EB Propsim F8,...
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Analog Devices’ Programmable Clock Generators Simplify System Design

Analog Devices Inc. , a leader in semiconductors for signal processing applications, introduced a pair of clock-generation and distribution ICs with the industry’s best combination of device integration, low noise, low jitter performance and signal output flexibility. The AD9520 and AD9522 multi-output clock generators include a 512-byte embedded EEPROM...
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