Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has announced the qualification and production release of two new gallium nitride(GaN)processes:G40V4(a 0.25µm process with operating drain voltage up to 40V)and G50V3(a 0.4µm process with operating ...
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara,CA,USA has unveiled new technologies and developments for RF power amplifier design that will be part of the next major release of its flagship Advanced Design System electronic design ...
Tags: EDA, Software, Digital Applications, Microwave
Freescale Semiconductor of Austin,TX,USA,which provides RF power technology for cellular markets,has unveiled its first RF power amplifier fabricated using gallium nitride(GaN)technology.Products will initially target the cellular ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Power Amplifier, Radar, Radio
In booth 1815 at the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Montreal, Canada (17–22 June), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA is launching ...
Tags: TriQuint, commercial, Canada
Samsung has acquired Nanoradio,a developer of low-power wireless LAN chipsets for mobile phones. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Kista,the fabless chip-maker has approximately 60 employees and a seven product range of 802.11 and ...
AWR Corp of El Segundo,CA,USA,a supplier of electronic design automation(EDA)software for designing RF and high-frequency components and systems,has added Taiwan to the list of cities scheduled for the July tourof its AWR Design ...
Tags: AWR, EDA, Microwave, Electronics
A little bit of semiconductor magic made a lot of difference to RF power amplifiers,and looks like it will do the same for mains PSUs. That magic is the'two-dimensional electron gas'that forms between layers in certain semiconductor ...
Tags: GaN, semiconductor, RF power amplifiers, GaAs, SiC, PSU, JFET
RWTH Aachen University and Aixtron SE in Germany have developed a new technique to create aluminium oxide insulated gates for nitride semiconductor transistors[Herwig Hahn et al,Semicond.Sci.Technol.,vol27,p062001,2012].The method consists ...
Tags: Plasma oxidation, RWTH Aachen University, Aixtron SE, GaN
Freescale Semiconductor of Austin,TX,USA has announced a new reference design for small office/home office(SOHO)base-station applications that is partially powered by two gallium arsenide(GaAs)monolithic microwave integrated ...
Tags: Freescale, GaAs, MMICs, the Freescale GaAs MMIC devices