Diode Limiters Help Protect Receivers 
, Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Fast-acting PIN diode limiters can prevent high-level signals from damaging a receiver’s front end, while still enabling the receiver to capture critical signal information. ...

Directing Energy On Advanced Weapons 
, Jack Browne, Technical Contributor
Warfare, by its very nature, results in loss of life. But directed-energy weapons (DEWs) offer the potential to reshape the battlefield, possibly ending conflicts with greatly reduced fatalities....

Contracts - April/May 2012 

On March 4, 2012, Boeing Co. officially delivered the first production P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the US Navy in Seattle, WA....

Power Dividers Cut Losses To 500 MHz 
, Jack Browne, Technical Contributor
These rugged N-way power dividers/combiners have been designed to handle the most challenging environments, all the while delivering reliable electrical performance through 500 MHz. ...

New Products - April/May 2012 

A line of customizable automatic-gain-control (AGC) amplifiers from the Spectrum Microwave family of products of API Technologies Corp. are ideally suited for receiver applications through 2 GHz in military and commercial applications....

Going Serial Goes High-Speed 
, William Wong, Technology Editor
The CompactPCI Serial interface provides support for high-speed switched fabrics with a star architecture of serial point-to-point connectors that enables as many as eight peripherals on one slot. ...

News Shorts - April/May 2012 

The APM-424(V)5 Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) MK XIIA Mode 5 portable test set from Aeroflex has received full AIMS Certification for KIV-77 and KIV-78 Support from the US Department of Defense (DoD)....

Simulators Mimic EW System Behavior 
, Jack Browne, Technical Contributor
These electronic-warfare system simulators typically run on standard personal computers and allow operators to experiment with responses for different operation conditions. ...

Systems Help Block Laser Guided Missiles  
, Mat Dirjish, Power/Components/Interconnects/ Packaging & Optoelectronics Editor
The very same laser-based technology that has effectively guided missiles to their targets is now being used in sophisticated jamming systems to prevent those missiles from hitting their marks. ...

Downconverter/Tuner Sweeps 0.5 To 26.5 GHz 
, Jack Browne, Technical Contributor
This broadband frequency-downconverter/tuner unit occupies only one standard rack space, yet provides high-speed tuning with low noise and fine frequency tuning resolution....

Phase Delay Tunes Timing To 12.5 Gb/s 
, Jack Browne, Technical Contributor
This integrated phase delay can add as much as 120 ps delay to clock signals of 11.7 GHz and faster, along with data signals operating at 12.5 Gb/s, with minimal signal and timing degradation. ...

FPGAs Fortified Against Counterfeiting 
, Jack Browne, Technical Contributor
These defense-grade FPGAs feature anti-tampering and anti-counterfeiting features that make them suitable for long-term applications in a wide range of mission-critical electronic systems. ...