Silicon Valley-based Gaas Labs LLC,a private investment fund targeting the communications semiconductor market,has acquired privately held Nitronex Corp of Durham,NC,USA,which designs and makes gallium nitride(GaN)-based RF power ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors)has launched a front-end system that integrates all RF and analog content between the transceiver and antenna for simplified ...
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On the same day that it released a Bluetooth Low Energy module,Murata announced that it has joined a European configurable radio research programme. The 20.0x13x2.4mm module,called LBCA2ZZVZE,includes a chip antenna and all the Bluetooth ...
Tags: Murata, Low Power Radio, Bluetooth Low Energy module, Texas, IMEC
Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has released a new suite of Verilog-A proprietary nonlinear device models for its gallium nitride(GaN)RF devices(available free to Cree's RF customers),developed for use with leading RF design platforms from ...
Tags: Cree, GaN, RF devices, Verilog-A RF device models, IMS
22 June 2012 Agilent's ADS selected by Sivers for front-to-back silicon RFIC implementation Sivers IMA AB of Kista,Sweden,which makes microwave products for telecoms,industrial and test&measurement applications,has selected the Advanced ...
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22 June 2012 Peregrine adds new 8GHz SP4T RF switch to portfolio At this week's 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada(17-22 June),Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of ...
Tags: Peregrine, IMS 2012, 8GHz SP4T RF switch, UltraCMOS technology
22 June 2012 Peregrine announces low-insertion-loss SP3T RF switch Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS),has introduced its SP3T ...
22 June 2012 Peregrine introduces its highest-linearity switches for 4G LTE At this week's 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada(17-22 June),Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless ...
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As system complexity increases no longer is simple stimulus and response testing enough,test systems need to simulate the world around a device and testing it under realistic operating conditions and for this FPGA-based instruments come ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) and IQE RF LLC of Somerset, NJ, USA have achieved record cut-off frequencies of 370GHz for InAlN/AlN/GaN/SiC high-electron-mobility transistors. The use of indium aluminum nitride (InAlN) barrier layers ...
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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 has announced initial sample availability ...
At the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada(17-22 June),Germany's Infineon Technologies AG has launched the BFx840xESD series of SiGe:C(silicon-germanium:carbon)heterojunction bipolar ...
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INSTEON® has created the INSTEON LED Bulb 8 Watt (60W), marking the world's first-to-market networked remote control dimmable LED light bulb. The INSTEON LED Bulb retails for $29.99, and features simple setup, intuitive control ...
Recognized as a compelling alternative to silicon for many RF applications,gallium nitride(GaN)technology has generated significant industry interest due to its performance advantages,but has faced significant challenges related to ...
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In booth 1210 at the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Montreal, Canada (17-22 June), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has launched the RFVA0016 — a highly integrated broadband quarter-watt (1/4W) ...
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