Aeroflex company licenses Kyocera's new graphical user interface for base station emulators
Jul 22, 2004
Aeroflex Incorporated has announced that Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions has agreed to licensing terms with Kyocera Wireless Corp. for the distribution and sale of Kyocera's Graphical User Interface product AMBER (Automatic and Manual Base Station EmulatoR) as part of Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions' test equipment...
Ultra-miniature, low profile package houses SiGe transistors
Jul 22, 2004
Tapping miniature RF transistor packaging technology, NEC has developed a new, flat lead package specifically for use with its high breakdown voltage silicon germanium transistors...
SiP technologies are key to enabling highly integrated, miniaturized electronic systems
Jul 21, 2004
At Tessera's 2nd Annual Technology Symposium held in San
Jose, several key executives and technologists from companies
including Amkor, Gartner Dataquest, Intel, Nokia and Tessera convened
to discuss the benefits and increased market adoption of
system-in-package (SiP) technologies...
UWB fabless startup gets $14 million
Jul 15, 2004
RF Design staff Cambridge, U.K.-based fabless startup Artimi Ltd. has secured another round of funding toward research and development of its flexible ultra-wideband transceivers with multiple interfaces...
FCC expands spectrum leasing rules
Jul 15, 2004
Building on the spectrum leasing policies it first implemented last fall, the Federal Communications Commission expanded the availability of spectrum leasing to more wireless services and devices, further streamlined the processing of spectrum lease applications and notifications, as well as traditional license transfers and assignments, and clarified certain aspects of the original spectrum leasing rules...
Demand for wireless sensor networks increasing
Jul 15, 2004
Demand for wireless sensor networking in the industrial sector is increasing, largely due to anticipation of the increased reliability and scalability of mesh networking, according to research firm ON World...
InGaP HBT power amplifiers enable multimedia CDMA handset
Jul 15, 2004
RFIC supplier Anadigics Inc. has announced that it is shipping production volumes of indium gallium phosphide-based heterojunction bipolar transistor power amplifiers to LG Electronics, a global provider of electronics and telecommunications products...
First rad-hard ASIC targets satellite applications
Jul 8, 2004
RF Design staff Peregrine Semiconductor, a supplier of high-performance RF CMOS silicon-on-sapphire mixed-signal communications ICs, and QThink, a pure play IC design company, have jointly developed the first radiation-hard ASIC for precision clock distribution...
TrenStar joins Microsoft RFID Council
Jul 8, 2004
To help accelerate the permeation of radio frequency identification technology into supply chain management operations, TrenStar Inc. has joined the Microsoft RFID Council...
Royalty and legal moves surprise RFID industry
Jul 8, 2004
The recent announcement that the "Global" and "Freedom" group proposals for a new UHF EPC Generation 2 tag standard had reached a consensus (the "Chicago Proposal"), seemed at first to be good news...
Defense contractor awards million-dollar contract to Microwave Dynamics
Jul 8, 2004
Microwave Dynamics, Tustin, Calif., has been awarded a contract in excess of $1.1 million to supply its hermetically sealed version of its PLO 2000 phased-locked oscillator to a major U.S. defense contractor...
WJ Communications completes acquisition of EiC
Jun 30, 2004
RF Design staff WJ Communications, manufacturer of RF semiconductor and multichip modules, has completed its previously announced acquisition of the infrastructure business and associated assets of privately held EiC Corp.of Fremont, Calif. late last month...
New tool shortens MEMS packaging development time and cost
Jun 30, 2004
MEMS design software supplier Coventor Inc and MEMS packaging solutions provider Kyocera have teamed up to provide software libraries for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) applications...
Fourth-generation Bluetooth IC transfers data three times faster
Jun 24, 2004
RF Design staff As adoption rates of Bluetooth functionality continues to rise in mobile phones and other devices, Cambridge, UK-based Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) is expanding its product line to garner more share...
Antenna designer bags missile defense agency contract
Jun 24, 2004
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded TECOM Industries a competitive contract for Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program to conduct research and development for Electronically Steerable Integrated Flight Intercept Control Station (IFICS) Data Terminal Antennas...
Single-chip Bluetooth enables remote metering
Jun 24, 2004
Cambridge, UK-based Cambridge Consultants has delivered a prototype design of a Bluetooth-based radio module to utility metering company Actaris...
Intel, Proxim collaborate on WiMAX solutions
Jun 17, 2004
RF Design staff Microprocessor giant Intel Corp. and wireless solutions provider Proxim Corp. have unveiled plans to jointly develop and deliver WiMAX, also known as IEEE 802.16, solutions for fixed and portable broadband wireless access...
Puerto Rico electric power authority gets wireless networking capability
Jun 17, 2004
Microwave Data Systems (MDS)and full-service partner Intracom Inc. have announced that Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has selected the MDS iNET 900 for communications in its automated dam data acquisition and alert reporting systems ...
