Microwave Journal articles from February 2003

Microwave Journal archives from February 2003

Coming events.(Calendar)
February 1, 2003... International Conference on Subsurface and Surface Sensing and Imaging IV March 2-6, 2003 San Diego, CA This conference reports advances and progress in the research and development of subsurface and surface sensing and imaging...

Workshops & courses.
February 1, 2003... RF POWER AMPS, CLASSES A-S * Topics: Provides a detailed explanation of the various classes of RF power amplifiers, and where each class is used in today's wireless designs. Amplifier classes A through S are defined and clearly explained,...

Hybrid synthesizer tutorial.(Tutorial)
February 1, 2003... Frequency synthesizers are used in a variety of communications and timing systems. Phase-locked loops (PLL) have been the "workhorse" of the majority of traditional synthesizers and clock generation circuits. However, there are other types of...

Rockwell Collins receives Order for Multi-mode Receiver.(News from Washington)(Rockwell Collins Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Rockwell Collins is the first to receive Federal Aviation Administration Technical Standard Order approval for a Multi-mode Receiver (MMR) equipped with Microwave Landing System (MLS) functionality that can be implemented in both commercial and...

Lockheed Martin ATACMS Missile performs perfectly in tests.(News from Washington)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Lockheed Martin's Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) Block II Missile performed perfectly in a test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The missile was launched with a test payload of three fully tactical Brilliant Anti-Armor Technology...

Raytheon delivers newest Patriot Missile interceptor.(News from Washington)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Raytheon Co. has completed its initial delivery of Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile Plus (GEM+) forebodies to the US Army. GEM+ is a significant upgrade over the existing Patriot Advanced Capability -2 (PAC-2) missile and, when fielded in...

Rockwell Collins demonstrates low level military approaches using synthetic vision.(News from Washington)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Rockwell Collins is the first to demonstrate low level military approaches using synthetic vision technology. Rockwell Collins' synthetic vision technology offers enhanced situational awareness, real-time guidance, predictive alerting and...

Raytheon awarded $118.7 M for SEASPARROW Missile production.(News from Washington)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $118.7 M contract from the US Navy for the second year for low rate initial production of the Evolved SEASPARROW Missile (ESSM). This award includes funding for 163 all-up-round-missiles. Raytheon also has been...

Galileo moves forward.(International Report)(European Galileo satellite navigation system)
February 1, 2003... The European Galileo satellite navigation system moved a step nearer to reality with a January 2003 industry day designed to cover applications to join and invest in the Galileo joint undertaking that will develop and manage the capability....

BAE Systems reveals fast jet CWS ...(International Report)(Collision Warning System )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... International contractor BAE Systems has revealed that it is proceeding to full-scale development of a collision warning system (CWS) for use on military fast jet aircraft. Designed to reduce the incidence of near misses and mid-air accidents,...

... and completes Ptarmigan out-of-area upgrade.(International Report)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... BAE Systems UK-based command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) business unit has announced delivery of the 30th and final Mobile Access to the Ptarmigan Packet Switching (MAPPS)...

Elisra launches new naval countermeasures suite.(International Report)
February 1, 2003... Israeli contractor Elisra Electronic Systems has launched a new electronic countermeasures suite that it claims is suitable for installation aboard any type of naval vessel. Designated as the NS-9003A-V2/9005A-V2 system, the new suite functions...

MEMS in consumer electronics.(The Commercial Market)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... As far as the consumer electronic market is concerned, MEMS is slowly heading in the right direction, according to In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm reports that the technology is moving forwards in terms of device development,...

End-user applications will rejuvenate the World Power Transistor Markets.(The Commercial Market)
February 1, 2003... Potential growth of many end-user application markets such as next-generation wireless communications, consumer and automotive electronics, as well as computer applications, is expected to boost the power transistor markets. New analysis from...

GaAs is in but silicon is not out.(The Commercial Market)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Aggressive pricing has boosted demand for GaAs-based wireless power ICs. Today, even some moderately priced GSM handsets are using GaAs power amplifiers. Another trend in handset design is the increased reliance upon power modules. Modules...

Motorola and SiRF agree to develop new location-aware chipsets.(The Commercial Market)
February 1, 2003... SiRF Technology Inc. and Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS), the world's largest producer of imbedded processors and a leading supplier into the mobile phone market, have announced an agreement to integrate SiRF's market-leading...

MICRO-COAX.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... MICRO-COAX announced that the company has acquired the assets of the Coaxitube Division of Precision Tube Co. Coaxitube's manufacturing operation will be consolidated into MICRO-COAX's ISO 9002-certified facility in Pottstown, PA. The...

Superconductor Technologies Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI) announced that it has completed its merger with Conductus Inc. and concurrently closed a related $20 M equity private placement that was contingent on the merger. STI issued 21,096,954 shares of common...

Cornell Dubilier Acquisition Corp.(Industry News)(BC Components Holdings B.V.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Cornell Dubilier Acquisition Corp. announced that it has acquired the DC electrolytic portion of BC Components Inc., Columbia, SC, from BC Components Holdings B.V. The Columbia facility manufactures screw terminal and snap-in electrolytic...

A.T. Wall Co.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... A.T. Wall Co., a manufacturer of specialty tubing, including waveguide tubing, has purchased the assets of H. Rollet & Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of precision waveguide and non-ferrous tubing, located in Liverpool, England. Assets in the purchase...

Signal Technology Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Signal Technology Corp. announced the sale of its remaining commercial wireless business. Under the terms of the agreement signed, Paratek Microwave, Columbia, MD, has acquired certain assets of Signal Technology's business that develops...

The MEMS Industry Group.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The MEMS Industry Group, a trade association representing the North American MEMS and microstructure industries, and NEXUS, the Grenoble, France-based European Microsystems Networks, announced they have entered into a partnership to foster...

Richardson Electronics has expanded its agreement with Semtech.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Richardson Electronics has expanded its agreement with Semtech. Richardson and Semtech have enjoyed a mutually successful domestic collaboration for over ten years. Under the terms of the agreement, Richardson will have expanded distribution...

SiRF Technology Inc. and Motorola.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... SiRF Technology Inc. and Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector have announced an agreement to integrate SiRF's SiRFstarII Global Positioning System core technology with Motorola wireless baseband and applications processors to...

LPKF Laser & Electronics North America.(Industry News)(WestDev Ltd)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... LPKF Laser & Electronics North America, a manufacturer of circuit board plotters for in-house PCB prototyping, has signed a distribution agreement with WestDev Ltd., Tewksbury (UK), to distribute Pulsonix, an EDA system. LPKF Laser &...

Ansoft Corp.(Industry News)
February 1, 2003... Ansoft Corp. has formed an educational partnership with Carnegie Mellon University's (CWBN) new center for wireless and broadband networking by donating advanced software for virtual design of high frequency technology. The in-kind...

Anaren Microwave.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Anaren Microwave announced that its North Andover, MA-based subsidiary, Amitron, has officially opened its low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) production facility. Featuring fully-and semi-automated systems specializing in the processing of...

Wide Band Systems Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The Defense Systems Division of Wide Band Systems Inc. has relocated to larger facilities in Newtown, PA, from its former location at Neshanic Station, NJ. The 10,000 sq. ft. facility was acquired as a result of the division's growth over the...

Northrop Grumman Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Northrop Grumman Corp. announced that Winchester Electronics, a business unit of its component technologies sector, is leaving its Watertown, CT, facility and moving to nearby Wallingford, CT. The move to the facility will affect all of the...

F.K. Instrument Co. Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * F.K. Instrument Co. Inc., a manufacturer of ultra-critical tolerance parts, has expanded its corporate offices, shipping, warehousing and production space to more than 45,000 sq. ft. Of that, 9200 sq. ft. houses the CNC vertical/horizontal...

SiGe Semiconductor.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * SiGe Semiconductor added a second design center for wireless power amplifiers in Boston, MA. SiGe Semiconductor has expanded its business and engineering teams with the addition of 12 staff, with an average of 16 years experience in senior...

MicroMetrics.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * MicroMetrics, a high tech manufacturer, has expanded its operations into a 46,000 sq ft. facility where its advances have primarily come in its laboratory areas and production center. Some of the specific improvements are in its metallization...

National Semiconductor Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * National Semiconductor Corp. began construction of its first manufacturing facility in China with groundbreaking ceremonies in Suzhou Industrial Park, the site of the company's planned semiconductor assembly and test facility. The plant will...

The Micromanipulator Co.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * The Micromanipulator Co. has been issued patent number 6,424,141 B1 for its triaxial chuck design (both ambient and thermal). The patented design provides significant improvements in noise and leakage performance for its chucks, and...

IMI Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * IMI Inc., a manufacturer of advanced technology printed circuit boards, announced that it has received a certificate of registration to ISO 9001:2000 from Perry Johnson Registrars. The certificate of registration was issued on August 15,...

REMEC Inc.(Financial News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * REMEC Inc. reports sales of 59.4 M for the third quarter ended November 1, 2002, compared to 52.5 M for the same period in 2001. Net loss was $12 M (26 cents/diluted share), compared to a net loss of $6.2 M (14 cents/diluted share) for the...

EMS Technologies Inc.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * EMS Technologies Inc. announced that it has received a contract valued at over $2.5 M from Alcatel Space to supply high powered, ferrite switch technology for the SAR-Lupe imaging satellite mission. EMS's Space and Technology Group/Atlanta...

Radant MEMS Inc.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Radant MEMS Inc. (RMI) has been awarded a contract by the defense advanced research projects agency (DARPA) to participate in its RF microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) improvement program, targeted at delivering highly reliable, high...

LTX Corp.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * LTX Corp., a supplier of semiconductor test solutions, announced that King Yuan Electronics Co. (KYEC) has ordered and taken delivery of the Fusion CX configuration. KYEC, a subcontract test and assembly provider in Taiwan, selected Fusion to...

Unity Wireless Corp.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Unity Wireless Corp. has been awarded an order to supply China's ZTE Corp. with power amplifiers for use in China Unicom's CDMA wireless network. The value of the order is approximately US $900,000 and is scheduled for delivery in the first...

Applied Wave Research Inc. and OMMIC.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Applied Wave Research Inc. and OMMIC, formerly Philips Microwave Limeil (PML), announced plans to provide process design kit library support for OMMIC's gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry process. MMIC designers will use the libraries, with...

NEC Electronics Corp.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * NEC Electronics Corp. announced that it has been separated from NEC Corp. by the way of corporate separation, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary dedicated to providing semiconductor solutions to customers worldwide. Kaoru Tosaka, who...

Andrew Corp.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * The Andrew board of directors announced its intent to name Ralph E. Faison president and chief executive officer of Andrew Corp. at the company's 55th annual meeting of stockholders. Faison is currently president and chief operating officer...

RJR Polymers Inc.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * RJR Polymers Inc. has appointed John W. Roman to the position of chief technical officer for the company's R-Pak[TM] packaging division. Roman has over 25 years of experience in design and production of wireless and microwave electronics....

AMI Semiconductor.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * AMI Semiconductor announced that Gregory L. Williams has been appointed to its board of directors. Williams is the executive chairman of Intersil Corp's board of directors. Previously, Williams was president and CEO of Intersil. In that...

California Eastern Laboratories.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * California Eastern Laboratories announced that Paul Minton, a longtime strategic planning consultant to CEL, has joined the company. He will serve as vice president, corporate development. Minton has worked closely with CEL for over seven...

Silicon Laboratories.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Silicon Laboratories has appointed Shannon Pleasant as its director of corporate communications. Pleasant brings broad industry experience to Silicon Labs, having served as director of corporate communications at General Bandwidth Corp. and...

Palomar Technologies.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Palomar Technologies announced the appointment of Venkat Shastri as vice president of engineering. Shastri, an expert in robotics and intelligent automation, will direct the company's research and development efforts in high precision...

Jersey Microwave.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Jersey Microwave has named Tony Landaeta as its sales and marketing manager. Landaeta brings over 20 years of RF experience from design through manufacturing and has spent the last several years in technical sales. He will oversee sales and...

M-tron Industries.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * M-tron Industries has appointed Cor van den Heuvel to the position of European marketing manager. Van den Heuvel will be responsible for directing the European sales and marketing activities. This will include direct interface with customers,...

Atlantic Technology.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Atlantic Technology has appointed Salem Belmeguenai as quality director reporting directly to the CEO and managing director. Belmeguenai brings 17 years of semiconductor quality experience to Atlantic Technology. After serving eight years...

Thunderline-Z.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Thunderline-Z has announced that Jeffrey McCann, formerly technical services manager at A.T. Wall Co., has been named engineering manager. He takes over for Jim Zanello, who has moved into a consultative engineering role with the company....

Clive Barnett.(Personnel)(Milmega)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Clive Barnett joins the Milmega sales team as sales manager. Barnett has had over 10 years experience in the RF and microwave industry having previously worked for Hewlett-Packard and Agilent as the business development manager for its...

Boonton Electronics.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Boonton Electronics announced that Hugh Felger has joined them as eastern regional sales manager. Felger joins Boonton Electronics with more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing within the electronics and telecommunications...

Elgar Electronics Corp.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Elgar Electronics Corp. announced the appointment of Paul Matthews to the newly created position of director of customer care. Matthews has over 25 years of experience serving customers in the power supply industry. He has held several...

Brennan Associates.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Brennan Associates welcomes Don Brown as its Georgia Area Manager. Brown has 20 years experience in the RF, microwave and millimeter-wave technologies. Brown started his sales career with M/A-Com/Omni-Spectra. He later moved into distribution...

L-3 Communications Corp.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Celerity Digital Broadband Test, a division of L-3 Communications Corp., announced the appointment of three new regional managers to its sales team. Jim Balent, Ed Okorn and Bob Lovill will be responsible for sales, customer service and...

The Wireless Communications Association.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * The Wireless Communications Association (WCA) has conferred its highest annual leadership award for governmental vision to wireless broadband standardization pioneer Roger B. Marks at the WCA's Ninth Annual Technical Symposium and Business...

Phase One Microwave Inc.(Rep Appointments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Phase One Microwave Inc., Rocklin, CA, has appointed Electronic Instrument Associates to handle accounts in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and northeastern Missouri.

M2 Global Technology Ltd.(Rep Appointments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * M2 Global Technology Ltd. has selected MRC Components OHG as its sales organization for Germany. Founded in 1997, MRC Components is a full-service RF electronics industry sales company headquartered in Freising, Germany.

Nextec Microwave.(Rep Appointments)(Sun Tech Marketing )(Star Tech Sales)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * Nextec Microwave, Santa Clara, CA, has made a series of new rep appointments. Sun Tech Marketing covers the geographical areas of Arizona, New Mexico, Clark County Nevada and El Paso, Texas; Star Tech Sales handles Northern California...

GeoHelix[TM] Global Positioning System.(Rep Appointments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... * GeoHelix[TM] Global Positioning System (GPS) antennas, UK-based helical antenna manufacturer Sarantel has appointed eight more representatives in the region. The company now has technical representation across most of the US where it is...

EM Research.(Web Site)
February 1, 2003... * EM Research manufactures a complete line of standard and custom-engineered low cost frequency synthesizers covering the frequency range of 5 MHz to over 12 GHz. Offered in surface-mount or connectorized packages, these fixed-frequency to...

A method to predict the level of intermodulation products in broadband power amplifiers.(Technical Feature)
February 1, 2003... This article derives a formula to mathematically predict the level of intermodulation products generated in a broadband, multi-carrier power amplifier. The prediction method uses the level of a harmonic as a reference from which to extrapolate...

A low noise wideband microwave oscillator using a tunable microstrip combline filter.(Technical Feature)
February 1, 2003... In RF measurement equipment, microwave synthesized signal sources, broadband digital satellite receivers and many other applications, broadband and low phase noise oscillators are becoming more and more important. A wide tuning range and good...

Effects of grounding and bias circuit on the performance of high frequency linear amplifiers.(Technical Feature)
February 1, 2003... The design of a high frequency amplifier is normally based on the S-parameters supplied by the manufacturer of the active device. However, in a practical design, these parameters are affected by the DC bias network and the grounding of the...

Overcoming hard limiter suppression.(Technical Feature)
February 1, 2003... For about half a century the suppression effects of bandpass hard limiters on various combinations of signals and inter ference have attracted widespread interest. (1-4) Certain "rules of thumb" have accreted around a variety of theoretical...

Memory effect reduction for LDMOS bias circuits.(Technical Feature)(Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor )
February 1, 2003... Memory effects have taken a very important role in today's design of base station power amplifiers. For example, they are responsible for limiting the cancellation when pre-distortion is applied to a power amplifier system. (1) This study shows...

Ultra-wideband radio--the new Part 15.(Special Report)
February 1, 2003... Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology enables several important applications, including ground penetrating radar, imaging, location tracking and low cost, short-range communications. With the recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

A modular switch filter bank.(Cover Feature)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2003... For many years switch filter banks have been designed as custom RF assemblies with long lead-time, large NRE charges and extreme custom packaging and specifications. A new modular approach to switch filter bank design has been introduced that...

High power surface-mount circulators and isolators.(Product Feature)
February 1, 2003... Non-reciprocal ferrite devices are widely used in RF engineering as efficient means for rerouting and suppressing reverse signals. Ferrite devices for various applications are currently available for the entire microwave frequency band....

A small, low cost antenna for WLAN and Bluetooth applications.(Product Feature)
February 1, 2003... Wireless device manufacturers today must fit a growing amount of functionality into continuously decreasing circuit board space. In particular, finding space for the antenna without compromising its performance characteristics has become a...

Surface-mount mini-balun.(Components)
February 1, 2003... This miniaturized version of the Xinger-brand surface-mount balun's specifications include an insertion loss of 0.35 dB max, frequency of 2.4 GHz, 600 MHz bandwidth and power handling of 22 W CW. Ideal applications are 802.11b/g access points,...

Receive filter.(Components)
February 1, 2003... The WSF-00235 receive filter is for China's CDMA 800 MHz Microcel base station. The WSF-00235 features a narrow passband with low insertion loss over the passband, typically [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] K & L Microwave Inc., Salisbury, MD...

Precision high power adapters.(Components)
February 1, 2003... These adapters are designed to adapt 14 mm to 7-16 female or male connectors. They exhibit 1.02 SWR over their full frequency range, are phase matched, and can be used in a variety of applications. These high power adapters can also be used on...

Magic tee.(Components)
February 1, 2003... The WRD-650 magic tee operates over the extended frequency range of 6.0 to 18.0 GHz. Maximum SWR is typically 1.60 dB with a collinear isolation of 15 dB minimum and sum-to-delta isolation of 30 dB minimum. Insertion loss of 0.5 dB is typically...

Hybrid ring divider/combiner.(Components)
February 1, 2003... This hybrid ring divider/combiner is designed to cover wireless bands from 1.700 to 2.000 GHz with average RF power handling capability of 1000 W when an external termination is used at the isolation point. The model 700-3 is ideally suited for...

High power switch.(Components)
February 1, 2003... The P/N 411NTV-2308 model hermetically sealed transfer switch with SMA connectors performs from DC to 1 GHz with upgrade capability up to 18 GHz. DC characteristics include 26 to 32 VDC (28 VDC nominal) with 140 mA typical at 25[degrees]C...

Economical couplers.(Components)
February 1, 2003... This Slimline series of low package volume, formable directional couplers operate at incremental bands from 100 MHz to 3 GHz, with coupling values of 4.77, 6, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 52 dB. Coupling variation is [+ or -] 1.0 dB....

Mini-SMB snap-on connector series.(Components)
February 1, 2003... The 75 [ohm] mini-SMB snap-on connector series delivers broadband performance with low reflection DC through 4 GHz in applications where weight and physical space is limited. This series meets the demands of wireless markets such as test and...

Custom filters.(Components)
February 1, 2003... These high frequency computerized custom low pass filters are available built to user specifications for both cut-off frequency and rejection regions. This series of filters have cutoff frequencies up to 50.5 GHz with as many as 10 sections....

Quick Lock connectors.(Components)
February 1, 2003... The Quick Lock connector series is designed for applications up to 12.4 GHz in mobile radio stations and other similar applications. The dimensions and characteristics of the series are based on the SMA connectors' interface. The quick lock...

Suface-mount trimmers.(Components)
February 1, 2003... This series of miniature, low profile surface-mount trimmer capacitors have been added to the SURFTRIM[R] line. Models in this series measure only 3.2 X 2.5 mm, with a height of less than 1.3 mm above the mounting surface. A thin silicone...

SMP connectors.(Components)
February 1, 2003... These hermetic SMP connectors with interface per MIL-STD-348A provide full compatibility with commonly available mating plugs. Common configurations are available as well as new robust designs, which improve ease of application and hermetic...