Microwave Journal articles from August 2000

Microwave Journal archives from August 2000

LIMITATIONS IN FEED-FORWARD LINEARIZATION: PART I.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... This article analyzes the effects of main path amplifier distortion characteristics on feed-forward systems. The basic operation of a feed-forward amplifier system is introduced and the impact of nonideal effects on the ability of the system to...

Fleet E-2C to be Modified into 2000 Configuration.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Integrated Systems and Aerostructure (ISA) sector, Dallas, TX, was awarded a $17.8 M contract by the US Navy to upgrade a fleet E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft to the new Hawkeye 2000 production standard....

EADS and Northrop Grumman Sign a Defense Electronics and Radar Accord.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Agence France-Presse reports that the future European aerospace giant EADS and US-based Northrop Grumman announced during the Berlin airshow that they have signed a letter of intent to form a new alliance in defense electronics and radar. The...

Raytheon Awarded $162 Million for AMRAAM Production.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Raytheon Co. received a $162 M contract for continued production of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The award was made by the US Air Force Armament Center, Air-to-Air joint Systems Program office (JSPO), Eglin Air...

Boeing Awarded Five-Year Contract for Super Hornet.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The US Navy awarded a multiyear contract to the Boeing Company for the production of 222 Super Hornets. The $8.9 B contract ensures continued production of the Super Hornet at Boeing facilities in St. Louis for the next five years. "The...

Lockheed Martin, Hughes and TRW Form Advanced EHF Team for U.S. Air Force.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Hughes Space and Communications and TRW formed a National Team to build the Department of Defense's (DoD) next generation of highly secure communications satellites known as the Advanced Extremely High Frequency...

Constant Revenues Forecast for C4ISR Markets.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... Although budgets for defense spending have steadily declined in recent years, products for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) remain in demand. According to new research from Frost...

US SARs Fight it out for Italian Contract.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Italy narrowed its choice of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for use in its forthcoming Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) acquisition to a variant of Northrop Grumman's Tactical Endurance SAR (TESAR) or the General Atomics/Sandia National...

Astrium Gets the HOT BIRD[TM].(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Franca-German-British space contractor ASTRIUM was selected by satellite television provider EUTELSAT to produce the bus and payload for a new HOT BIRD broadcast satellite to be fast-track delivered by the end of 2002. Designated as HOT BIRD 7,...

Philips Launches New DAB Chip Set.(digital audio broadcast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Netherlands contractor Philips Semiconductors has launched a new digital audio broadcast (DAB) chip set that is designed to act as a "cost effective platform" with which to launch DAB products. Within the set, the SAA3500 channel decoder is...

New ITU Radio Monitoring Set Launched by Rhode & Schwarz.(International Telecommunications Union )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... To cope with expanding frequency occupancy densities, German contractor Rhode & Schwarz (R&S) launched a new 9 kHz to 3 GHz, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) -- compliant receiver system to monitor occupancy and assist in the...

Sender Becomes Captor.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Following up on 'International Report's' coverage of the UK'S Sender surveillance UAV programme in the June 2000 edition of "Microwave Journal," the UK's Ministry of Defence is now understood to have merged its 50 km range Sender and 150 km...

General Motors and Motorola Team for Mobile Office on Wheels.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Terradyne Concept vehicle shown by General Motors at the Detroit Auto Show, will incorporate a mobile office environment featuring the Motorola i1000plus[TM] integrated digital wireless handset with service from the Nextel National Network....

Ericsson Unveils the First Bluetooth[TM] Mobile Phone.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Ericsson showed the first Bluetooth[TM] phone at CommincAsia in Singapore. The phone is the triple-band, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-enabled T36. The built-in Bluetooth chip in the T36 makes wireless connectivity possible between the...

FCC Offers Bold New Spectrum Plan.(Federal Communications Commission )(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... On May 31, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unveiled a new spectrum management proposal in an effort to streamline deployment of wireless services across the country Two significant initiatives were outlined during the forum in...

Nokia and TRW Will Partner for Multimode 3G Base Stations.(Nokia Networks)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... TRW Inc. and Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia Corp., have agreed to cooperate on the design and development of current and third generation (3G) base station products for mobile networks. The agreement between TRW's Space and...

ADC Telecommunications Inc.(acquired PairGain Technologies)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * ADC Telecommunications Inc., Minneapolis, MN, has completed its acquisition of PairGain Technologies Inc. Pursuant to the acquisition, which is structured as a tax-free reorganization for US federal income tax purposes and intended to be...

Applied Wave Research Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Applied Wave Research Inc. (AWR), El Segundo, CA, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ICU-COM Corp., a privately held electronic design automation firm headquartered in Troy, NY. AWR will also acquire ICUCOM's software development...

ITT Industries.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * ITT Industries has completed the purchase of C&K Components Inc. With the acquisition, ITT Industries is now the largest switch manufacturer in the world. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Anaren Microwave Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Anaren Microwave Inc. has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of RF Power Components Inc., a privately held manufacturer of coaxial and surface-mount RF power resistors and attenuators based in Long Island, NY. This acquisition will...

SDL Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * SDL Inc., San Jose, CA, has signed an agreement to acquire Photonic Integration Research Inc. (PIRI), Columbus, OH, for a total purchase price of $1.8 B. PIRI was founded in 1987 as a joint venture of Battelle, NIT, Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire the business of EFData, the satellite communications division of Adaptive Broadband Corp., for $61.5 M in cash.

Nitres Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Nitres Inc., a leader in research and development of nitride-based semiconductor devices, has agreed to be acquired by Cree Inc., a developer of semiconductor materials and electronic devices made from silicon carbide. Under the terms of the...

Siecor.(name changed to Corning Cable Systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Siecor has officially changed its, name to Corning Cable Systems. The name change is a result of Corning Inc.'s recent acquisition of the worldwide cable and hardware operations of Siecor and Siemens, Established in 1977, Siecor had been a...

Altra Broadband Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Ansoft Corp. has formed Altra Broadband Inc., a new company to develop components and subsystems for broadband wireless and optical networking based on a proprietary technology, spin polarized wave division (SPWD).

Excellon Automation Co.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Excellon Automation Co. has expanded and realigned its North America Sales, applied technologies and service teams. The organizations are now aligned geographically by eastern, central and western regions.

Racal Instruments.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Automated functional test system manufacturer Racal Instruments, Irvine, CA, has formed a new broadband group. Focusing on hardware and software test solutions, the new unit offers integrated test solutions for manufacturing applications in...

Volex Group p.l.c.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Electrical power cord and electronic cable assembly producer Volex Group p.l.c. has formed Volex RF Technologies, a new operating unit for RF products. The unit will operate from a new facility in Wilmington, MA and provide engineering...

Raytheon RF Components.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Raytheon RF Components has opened a new design center in Nashua, NH. The center is staffed, with senior RF and microwave design engineers who are developing the next generation of low noise amplifiers, up-/downconverters and power amplifiers...

Spectrum Control Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Spectrum Control Inc. has opened a new 45,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Juarez, Mexico. This production plant will be used for the manufacturing of EMI filter products for the signal products division.

Xemod Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Integrated RF power product manufacturer Xemod Inc. has completed its expansion into Tempe, AZ as well as the relocation of its headquarters to Santa Clara, CA. The expansion more than doubles the company's square footage, enabling it to...

Centurion International Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Centurion International Inc., a manufacturer of wireless antenna and battery products headquartered in Lincoln, NE, has announced plans for expanding its operations in the fast-growing Asia market, opening a new manufacturing facility in...

SiGe Microsystems.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Fabless semiconductor company SiGe Microsystems has opened new offices to support its rapidly growing business. The company outgrew its previous home within the National Research Council Industrial Partnership facility and has moved its...

EMS Wireless.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * EMS Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA, will now offer a full range of ferrite-based magnetic ceramic materials and fabricated ferrite parts with the capability to supply custom compositions. To support increased production volumes, the company...

Agilent Technologies Inc.(alliance announced with Silicon Wave Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Agilent Technologies Inc. has signed an alliance with Silicon Wave Inc. to deliver standardized Bluetooth test solutions for the company's Odyssey Bluetooth systems-on-chip. The alliance will allow Silicon Wave to bring its designs to market...

Richardson Electronics Ltd.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Richardson Electronics Ltd. has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with ANADIGICS Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Richardson will become ANADIGICS' first distribution channel to market and sell the company's high performance...

Stanford Microdevices.(Global Communication Semiconductors Inc., contract)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Stanford Microdevices has completed a foundry supply agreement with Global Communication Semiconductor (GCS) to develop high performance RF integrated circuits for telecommunication infrastructure equipment used in the delivery of wireless...

Cadence Design Systems Inc.(announces partnership with Music Semiconductors Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, has announced the signing of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar partnership with MUSIC Semiconductors, a supplier of silicon networking solutions to major original equipment manufacturers (OEM). The...

Motorola Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Motorola Inc. has completed the process of tripling the wafer output of its Compound Semiconductor-1 (CS-1) wafer fabrication facility three months ahead of schedule. All of the company's gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor devices are...

M/A-COM Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * M/A-COM Inc., a unit of Tyco International Ltd., is substantially expanding its GaAs wafer fabrication capacity and adding a new high volume six-inch wafer fab manufacturing line. During the past 18 months the company has increased its fab...

Analog Devices Inc.(announces CDMA Development Group membership)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, MA, has joined the CDMA Development Group, a consortium of more than 115 companies joined together to lead the adoption and evolution of CDMA wireless systems around the world.

Murata Electronics North America Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Murata Electronics North America Inc. has announced its membership in the HomeRF Working Group, an organization that has created a common specification for in-home wireless voice and data networking known as the Shared Wireless Access...

Taconic.(Taconic Plastics Limited)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Taconic, Petersburgh, NY, is in the process of completing a four-stage plan to increase capacity that will triple worldwide high performance laminate manufacturing. In 1999 the company implemented the first stage of its expansion through...

SouthWest Electronic Energy Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * SouthWest Electronic Energy Corp., Stafford, TX, has received ISO 9001 certification from the British Standards Institution.

Intel Corp.(Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement award)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Intel Corp. has recognized Pulse with its i999 Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement award. Pulse, a Technitrol company, supplies magnetics for networking, power and telecom applications to Intel.

Micro Lambda Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Micro Lambda Inc., a manufacturer of YIG-based components and frequency synthesizers for test and measurement and the latest wireless communications applications, celebrated its tenth year in business at this year's IEEE MTT-S show in Boston,...

EPCOS Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * EPCOS Inc., Iselin, NJ, has signed Network Electronics, the US subsidiary of Premier Farrell, as an authorized distributor of EPCOS capacitors, RFI products, metal oxide varistors, gas tube surge voltage protectors, thermistors, surface...

REMEC Inc.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... * REMEC Inc. reports sales of $56.6 M for the first quarter ended April 28, compared to $43.2 M for the same quarter in 1999. Net income was $1.4 M (5[cts.]/diluted share), compared to a net loss of $3.4 M (14[cts.]/diluted share) for the first...

LCC International Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * LCC International Inc. reports record sales of $30.1 M for the first quarter ended March 31, compared to $17.8 M for the same period last year. Net income, excluding the gain from the company's sale of its tower assets, was $500 K, compared...

Ansoft Corp.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... * Ansoft Corp. reports sales of $33.5 M for the year ended April 30, compared to $24.5 M in 1999. Net income was $1.8 M (14[cts.]/diluted share). Sales were $10.8 M for the fourth quarter compared to $7.7 M for the fourth quarter last year.

American Technical Ceramics Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * American Technical Ceramics Corp., Huntington Station, NY, reports sales of $18.4 M for the third quarter ended March 31, compared to $10 M for the same quarter last year. Net income was $3.2 M (78[cts.]/diluted share), compared to $966 K...

SEMX Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * SEMX Corp. has sold $10 M of six percent cumulative, five-year redeemable, series B preferred stock to an investor group led by ACI Capital Co. Inc.. SEMX also issued five-year warrants to purchase a total of one million shares of SEMX common...

Vyyo.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Vyyo has announced the initial public offering of 6,750,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $13.50 per share. The company also granted the underwriters an option to purchase 1,012,500 shares to cover allotments. Vyyo...

Comsearch.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Comsearch, Reston, VA, has licensed its premier microwave path design software, IQ*Link, to Ericsson in a deal valued at over $250 K per year in software licenses and support. IQ*Link is a comprehensive engineering software tool that performs...

Norsat International Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Norsat International Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has received an initial order for 10,000 hybrid Ka-/Ku-band outdoor units from EMS Technologies Canada Ltd. The units are scheduled for delivery over approximately a two-year...

EMS Technologies Inc.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * EMS Technologies Inc. has received a contract to supply its new low cost packet data SATCOM terminals to Seimac Ltd., Nova Scotia, Canada. The contract is valued at up to $1.7 M.

PERSONNEL.
August 1, 2000... * Bart F. Petrini has been appointed president and chief executive officer at Communications & Power Industries. Petrini was formerly executive VP and general manager of the Electronics Device Group of Richardson Electronics. * MCE...

The American Ceramic Society.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * The American Ceramic Society's redesigned Web site, www.ceramics.org, provides two new easy-to-use resources for those in the ceramic field. Ceramic Links allows users to locate Web sites that contain useful ceramics information, and...

Rogers Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * The microwave materials division of Rogers Corp., Chandler, AZ, has expanded its next-day shipping service, making it available online at www.erogers.com.

Zeta.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Zeta, an Integrated Defense Technologies company, has unveiled a newly designed Web site. The site, www.zeta-idt.com, allows users to instantly download brochures on microwave and RF power product capabilities as well as datasheets on signal...

Andrew Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Andrew Corp. has launched a new document delivery service that conveys information about the company's products and services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The new online document center can be accessed directly from the company's Web site...

Tekra Corp.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * Tekra Corp. now offers a variety of customer service and online ordering capabilities at its new Web site, www.tekra.com. The site offers a variety of interactive services, including online ordering and tracking, access to product specials...

TestMart[TM].(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * TestMart,[TM] the leading information and commerce marketplace for the test and measurement industry, has expanded coverage of VXI test instruments and VXI-specific data at www.testsmart.com. The increased focus on VXI instruments and data...

THE DESIGN OF INTERMEDIATE LINEAR PHASE BANDPASS CRYSTAL FILTERS IN SEMILATTICE FORM.
August 1, 2000... This article presents a systematic method to overcome the limitations in the design of intermediate bandpass linear phase crystal filters. A solution guaranteeing a linear phase transfer function that can be realized in intermediate form is...

A SIMPLIFIED APPROACH TO DETERMINING AM/PM CONVERSION COEFFICIENT IN MICROWAVE LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS AND SYSTEMS.
August 1, 2000... Minimizing amplitude modulation to phase modulation (AM/PM) conversion distortion is critical in modern communications systems. Using industry standard formulas and readily available field test equipment, a simpified approach is described which...

IMS2000: A BOSTON BLOCKBUSTER.(News Briefs)
August 1, 2000... In spite of all the obstacles our fair city of Boston put in the way (the Big Dig, airport reconstruction, a small, multistory convention center and hotel space at a premium) the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and Exhibition broke all...

THE MEASUREMENT OF GROUP DELAY USING A MICROWAVE SYSTEM ANALYSER.
August 1, 2000... This article discusses group delay, the various methods relating to its measurement and their associated errors, as well as the difficulties of measuring group delay through frequency converters. The implementation of group delay measurement in...

PROPERTIES OF VARIOUS COUPLING APERTURES.
August 1, 2000... This article studies coupling properties of various apertures. A concave-shaped aperture is proposed for exciting radiating patches, which has equal forward and reverse coupling coefficient. The coupling properties are simulated using a...

A PC-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR MICROWAVE AMPLIFIER STABILITY MEASUREMENTS.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Measuring the performance of microwave components and systems is usually a difficult and time-consuming task. Typical laboratory equipment often cannot provide the high degree of accuracy that is required for many measurements. A new product...

A SNAP-ON ADAPTER FOR SMA CONNECTORS.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The collective time spent attaching test cables to SMA connectors on units under test over the years must be a staggering number at best. Yet past efforts to develop quick snap-on connectors have always come up short on performance, thus...

NONLINEAR SIMULATION ON EVERY DESKTOP.
August 1, 2000... A new harmonic balance simulator has been introduced that is so fast and easy all engineers will want their own copy. Totally integrated into the industry leading GENESYS design environment, HARBEC adds complete DC and harmonic balance...

VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED STW OSCILLATORS FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS.
August 1, 2000... The surface transverse wave (STW) VCO is designed for fixed phase-locked loop (PLL) applications and offers system benefits in the areas of low noise floor, high fundamental frequencies and resistance to microphonics. It is for these reasons...

Multipurpose Mixer.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The model AD8343 silicon double-balanced active mixer delivers the lowest levels of distortion up to 2.5 GHz. It is the highest performance multipurpose mixer flexible enough to be used in a broad range of applications, including cellular...

Ceramic Filter.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The model 311-00027 small-size ceramic filter for GPS applications is a surface-mount design ready for automated assembly and available in tape and reel. The two-pole filter is a mono-block dielectric filter and its small size, low cost and...

EMI Filter.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The model FDHC461 EMI filter is designed for use with DC-DC converters that handle up to 7.5 W output. Housed in an industry-standard eight-pin package, the FDHC461 provides filtering to reduce input line reflected ripple current to within the...

Single-Layer Border Capacitors.
August 1, 2000... These unique single-layer, high frequency capacitors are designed to operate into the millimeter bands with a dielectric constant of 22,000 (nom) and typical X7R temperature characteristics over the military operating temperature range...

Portable RF Attenuators and Terminations.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The model 1000-A series of attenuators and 1000-T series of terminations feature 1000 W convection cooling. which is ideal for bench top and field applications. Attenuation values of three, six, 10, 20 and 30 dB are available. Specifications...

Gas Tight D-SUB Connectors.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The hermetic D-SUB connectors are gas tight and provide glass dielectric around each contact to maintain rated electrical characteristics through exposure to thermal and mechanical shock. The glass also provides a heatproof shield in...

Miniature Bypass Switches.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The 409B series low cost, miniature bypass switches operate to 3 GHz and are designed to be PCB mounted with 50 [omega] impedance. The units have 24 V DC actuating voltage intended for microstrip applications and can be hot switched at 10 W CW...

Phase and Amplitude Matched SP16T Switch.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The model S9N-69-0LA absorptive PIN diode switch exhibits phase matching of [+ or -]5[degrees] and amplitude matching of [+ or -]0.5 dB between each of 16 output ports, over the full multi-octave bandwidth of 2.0 to 18.0 GHz. In addition, the...

Hybrid Coupler.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Xinger [R] 1M803 surface-mount 90[degrees] 3 dB hybrid coupler is designed for U-NII and HiperLAN applications in the 5 to 6 GHz frequency range. The miniature unit provides isolation of 20 dB (min) and insertion loss of 0.25 dB (max)....

C-clip Connectors.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Keystone connectors for microwave cable assemblies feature tensile strength in excess of 250 pounds (depending on the connector and cable size). They have a captured C-clip design that substantially increases the tensile strength by using...

PHEMT GAAS IC High Linearity SPDT Switch.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The AS191-73 pHEMT GaAs FET IC high linearity SPDT switch features +2.5 to +5 V linear operation at input power levels greater than +35 dBm. The transmit/receive switch has a low insertion loss of 0.5 dB at 0.9 GHz, high isolation of 27 dB at...

Resistor Ladder Networks.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The R/2R thin-film resistor ladder networks offer superior precision, stability and cost effectiveness, and are ideal for applications demanding digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital conversion. The units are available with resistance values...