IXYS Corp. Acquires Microwave Technology
Sep 11, 2003
RF Design Staff Santa Clara, Calif. -- IXYS Corp. announced the completion of its acquisition of Microwave Technology Inc. (MWT). In exchange for the outstanding shares and options of MWT, IXYS issued approximately 800,000 shares of IXYS common stock. MWT is now a wholly owned subsidiary of IXYS....
Ophir RF releases amplifier module
Sep 10, 2003
RF Design Staff Los Angeles, Calif. -- Ophir RF announced its newest highly linear amplifier module -- the 5302055 model -- designed primarily for the point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access market....
Aries introduces high-frequency center probe test socket
Sep 10, 2003
RF Design Staff Frenchtown, N.J. -- Aries Electronics Inc. released a new RF test socket for devices up to 13 mm wide, with pitches of 0.50 mm and higher, in applications with speeds from 1 GHz to over 10 GHz. Specific applications for the new test socket include CSP, MicroBGA, MLF, QFN, DSP, LGA, SRAM, DRAM, and Flash devices....
Motorola launches new GSM circuit core solution
Sep 10, 2003
RF Design Staff Lagos, Nigeria -- Motorola Inc.'s Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) announced the launch and first commercial deployment of its new Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications circuit core, the Motorola Telephony Server for GSM (MTS-G). Installation of this 2G circuit core is part of the system Motorola is deploying for M-Tel, the Nigerian state telephone operator, to complete the second phase of its GSM network expansion....
Defense Electronics
Sep 8, 2003
Julie Dees Defense Electronics: A quarterly publication delivering technical content specific to military communication component design....
Unlicensed Technologies
Sep 1, 2003
Precision location system Multispectral Solutions Inc. announced the grant of equipment authorization from the FCC for the company's PAL650 UWB precision...
An integrated downconverter circuit in 0.8 m SiGe technology for DCS-1800 applications
Sep 1, 2003
By E. Hernández, R. Berenguer, J. Meléndez, N. Rodríguez, and J. Aguilera Frequency converters are an important part of most RF front-ends. As there are
no ADCs with several bits that can process information at GHz frequencies, the
frequency downconverter circuit plays a decisive role on every receiver. This
article describes a downconverter circuit for DCS-1800 applications....
The new RF Design
Sep 1, 2003
Todd Judd Erickson Editor terickson@primediabusiness.com Welcome to the new RF Design. Obviously, we've made quite a few changes to the magazine's style and design. I'll run through a quick tour to point out...
