Microwave Journal articles from June 2000

Microwave Journal archives from June 2000

HARMONIC TUNING OF POWER TRANSISTORS BY ACTIVE LOAD-PULL MEASUREMENT.
June 1, 2000... A nonlinear network analyzer combined with an active multiharmonic load-pull system is described. Data acquisition uses an HP 71500 microwave transition analyzer (MTA) and force/sense bias supplies. Complete tuning and monitoring of the...

Defense Department Air Traffic Control Modernization Moves Forward.
June 1, 2000... Recent decisions made at the US Air Force Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA, and within the Department of Defense (DoD) have had positive effects on the DoD's overall effort to modernize its air traffic control (ATC)...

US Fighter Aircraft FLIR Market to Reach $1 B by 2009.
June 1, 2000... A new study from the Teal Group, "Fighter FLIR Market Forecast," predicts that the production value of US fighter aircraft Forward-looking Infrared (FLIR) systems will reach $1 B by 2009. According to the study, the next-generation fighter FLIR...

Study Examines Effects of Changing Threats on Sensor Development.
June 1, 2000... A new study from Frost & Sullivan, "World Naval Radar and Sonar Markets," examines the changing nature of naval military threats as well as the effect of those changes on radar and sonar sensor development and the sensor markets. The study...

Navy Exercises First-Year Production Option For SATCOM Systems.
June 1, 2000... The US Navy has exercised its first-year options for production of satellite communication (SATCOM) systems for surface ships, shore stations and submarines. The order to Raytheon Co. has a value in excess of $54 M. The procurement for the Navy...

US Multiband Multimission Radio Contract Awarded.
June 1, 2000... The US Special Operations Command (US-SOCOM) has awarded a four-year contract to Raytheon Co. for the production of Multiband Multimission Radio (MBMMR) systems. The initial award under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity agreement has...

Egypt to Acquire Shore-based GMDSS Communications Infrastructure.
June 1, 2000... Egyptian service provider Egypt Telecom, Cairo, Egypt, has contracted with a consortium comprising Thomson-CSF Systems Canada and Mackay Radio Systems Inc., Youngsville, NC, to provide the shore-based communications infrastructure for Egypt's...

Racal Outlines Noncooperative Bistatic Radar.
June 1, 2000... UK contractor Racal Defence Electronics has issued the first open source description of its Triton noncooperative, passive bistatic radar system, which apparently is related to an application Racal may be supplying to the UK's Royal Navy (RN)...

MAMBA Specified.
June 1, 2000... Information received by 'International Report' has started to flesh out the bones of the British Army's proposed Mobile Artillery Monitoring Battlefield (MAMBA) radar programme. Designed to support the evolving Joint Rapid Reaction Force, the...

Royal Navy Buys New Surface-to-air Communications System.
June 1, 2000... Northrop Grumman's UK-based subsidiary, Park Air Electronics, Lincolnshire, England, is supplying the UK's RN with a new VHF-band radio system to facilitate communications between its surface ships and civilian aircraft. According to Park Air,...

Russia Markets Fuze Jammer.
June 1, 2000... Russia's Bryansk Electromechanical Plant is reportedly marketing the new SPR-2 proximity fuze jamming system. Installed aboard an eight-wheeled BTR-70 armoured personnel carrier, the 500 kg SPR-2 system operates in the 100 to 500 MHz frequency...

Consumer Two-way Broadband Satellite Internet Service Set to Debut.
June 1, 2000... Gilat-to-Home Inc., a joint venture of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., Microsoft and, with its recent $50 M investment in the venture, EchoStar Commu-nications Corp., plans to introduce the first US two-way satellite broadband service later this...

Verizon Wireless to Invest $3 B in Network.
June 1, 2000... Verizon Wireless, the new company formed by the combination of the US wireless assets of Bell Atlantic Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch Plc with PrimeCo Personal Communications, is expected to expand its coverage even further when the merger of Bell...

Audiovox Communications and Verizon Reach Major Handset Agreement.
June 1, 2000... In related news, audiovox Communications Corp. has reached an agreement with Verizon under which Audiovox will supply Verizon with one million CDM-9000s, the company's new tri-mode, Web browsing cellular handset. Weighing 4.8 ounces, the...

Broadband Market to Exceed $580 B by 2010.
June 1, 2000... A new study from COMSYS, "The Broadband Report," analyzes demand for broadband services on a country by country basis in both the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) and Household markets and forecasts that global demand for the services in those...

European Long-haul Fiber Demand Triples 1997 Level.
June 1, 2000... A new study from KMI Corp., "Networks of Fiber-based Pan-European Carriers: Market Developments and Forecasts," reports that pan-European operators deployed six million kilometers of fiber in 1999 and will probably do the same in 2000....

Internet Capability Via Satellite Telephone and Globalstar Network Demonstrated.
June 1, 2000... Earlier this year, a successful test transmission of Internet data through the Globalstar network via a tri-mode telephone was demonstrated from a South American site, The demonstration employed a standard laptop computer connected to a...

Thomas James Zinkowsky.
June 1, 2000... Industry friend and colleague Thomas James Zinkowsky ("TZ") died April 30 in Santa Cruz, CA following a motorcycle accident. He was 35. For the past 18 years, TZ worked for Signal Technology Corporation, Danvers, MA, rising to the position of...

dBm LLC.
June 1, 2000... dBm LLC, Wayne, NJ, has finalized an agreement to purchase the satellite test equipment line from Telecom Analysis Systems, Eatontown, NJ. This asset acquisition enhances dBm's position as a supplier of RF link emulation equipment for the...

ITT Industries Inc.
June 1, 2000... ITT Industries Inc., White Plains, NY, has signed an agreement to acquire C&K Components Inc., Watertown, MA, a privately held designer and manufacturer of switches for the telecommunications, computer and electronic equipment markets. The...

SEMX Corp.
June 1, 2000... SEMX Corp's subsidiary, Polese Company, San Diego, CA, has completed its acquisition of the assets of ceramic package manufacturer Advanced Packaging Concepts, Vista, CA. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Conexant Systems Inc.
June 1, 2000... Conexant Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire Philsar Semiconductor Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a privately held developer of RF semiconductor solutions for personal wireless connectivity. The Philsar team will join Conexant's Wireless...

ADC Telecommunications Inc.
June 1, 2000... ADC Telecommunications Inc., Minneapolis, MN, has entered into agreement to acquire the television broadcast assets of Continental Electronics Corp. (CEC), Dallas, TX. The deal is a cash transaction that was expected to close during ADC's...

Litton Interconnect Technologies.
June 1, 2000... Litton Interconnect Technologies, Springfield, MO, has purchased six Excellon Automation XLP drilling systems from Excellon Automation Co., Torrance, CA. The purchase is intended to help expand Litton's PCB operations' capacity to produce high...

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc.
June 1, 2000... W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., Eau Claire, WI, has purchased its second [ScanMan.sup.TM] automated flip-chip carrier test system from Everett Charles Technologies (ECT), Pomona, CA.

RF Micro Devices Inc.
June 1, 2000... Proprietary RFIC provider RF Micro Devices Inc., Greensboro, NC, has established a local sales and support team in Taiwan, ROC. The team comprises Taiwanese sales and application engineering personnel and is the first such expansion for the...

Wide Band Systems Inc.
June 1, 2000... Wide Band Systems Inc., Rockaway, NJ, has established a Defense Systems Division in a new, 12,000-square-foot facility in Neshanic Station, NJ. The new division was established to develop advanced electronic warfare (EW) systems incorporating...

Seiko Instruments USA Inc.
June 1, 2000... Seiko Instruments USA Inc.'s Fiber Optics Group, Torrance, CA, has expanded its production facility under the direction of Mark Kim, a newly appointed senior production manager, in an attempt to meet the growing market demands for cable...

Wireless Technologies Corp.
June 1, 2000... Cavity filter and diplexer designer and manufacturer Wireless Technologies Corp., Springdale, AR, has opened a new field office in San Francisco to specifically serve the needs of the Silicon Valley. For more information, call (877) 420-7983.

MJM Solutions Inc.
June 1, 2000... MJM Solutions Inc. has expanded its manufacturing operations into a new, 11,000-square-foot facility located at 4321 Ingot Street, Fremont, CA 94539. The company will retain its corporate headquarters on Hotchkiss Street in Fremont, where it...

Xemod Inc.
June 1, 2000... Xemod Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has completed its expansion into Tempe, AZ as well as relocation of its headquarters to Santa Clara, CA. The expansion more than doubles the company's square footage and enables it to house increased manufacturing...

Ensemble Communications Inc.
June 1, 2000... Next-generation broadband wireless access equipment supplier Ensemble Communications Inc. has entered into a nonexclusive worldwide marketing and distribution agreement with Digital Microwave Corp. under which Digital Microwave will place an...

Richardson Electronics.
June 1, 2000... Richardson Electronics has been appointed a worldwide distributor for LBA Technology Inc. (LBAT). LBAT designs and manufactures highly specialized medium-wave antenna systems.

QUALCOMM Inc.
June 1, 2000... QUALCOMM Inc., San Diego, CA, and Microsoft Corp. have announced their intent to form a strategic alliance to jointly define and develop advanced wireless, multimedia-capable devices. The companies will focus on developing hardware reference...

Agilent Technologies Inc.
June 1, 2000... Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has entered into a global license and support agreement with Motorola to supply software tools, training and technical support for the design of Motorola's next-generation communications PC boards, ICs...

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI).
June 1, 2000... Superconducting product manufacturer Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI), Santa Barbara, CA, has signed a supply agreement with ALLTEL, Little Rock, AR, a pioneer in the deployment of superconducting technology in a cellular network. Under...

RangeStar Wireless.
June 1, 2000... RangeStar Wireless, Aptos, GA, and Molded Interconnect Device (MID) LLC, Rochester, NY, have entered into a strategic manufacturing agreement. The partnership brings together RangeStar's embedded antenna design and integration with MID LLC's...

Peregrine Semiconductor.
June 1, 2000... Peregrine Semiconductor and Symbol Technologies have agreed to jointly develop complete solutions for the rapidly emerging Bluetooth wireless high speed personal area networking market. Peregrine's ultra-thin silicon CMOS technology (UTSi(r))...

CTS Corp.
June 1, 2000... CTS Corp., Elkhart, IN, has formed a joint strategic relationship with both Kyocera Corp. and Kinseki Ltd. Under the terms of the two technology exchange and license agreements, CTS will exchange the license of patents and intellectual property...

Rogers Corp.
June 1, 2000... Rogers Corp. and Gould Electronics Inc. have jointly introduced high performance flexible materials with electrodeposited (ED) copper foils. Rogers will sell versions of its ft/flex(r) flexible circuit materials with the ED foils, complementing...

ANADIGICS.
June 1, 2000... ANADIGICS, Warren, NJ, has shipped production volumes of multiband power amplifiers (PA) for use in Ericsson's Tl8d dual-band wireless phones, which feature digital fax/data and full graphic display capabilities. This is the third T-class...

M2 Global Technology Ltd.
June 1, 2000... Microwave component and value-added service supplier M2 Global Technology Ltd., San Antonio, TX, has received ISO 9001 certification.

Networks International Corp.
June 1, 2000... Electronic filter and oscillator designer and manufacturer Networks International Corp., Overland Park, KS, received ISO 9001 certification effective January 1.

Comtech PST Corp.
June 1, 2000... Comtech PST Corp., a division of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., has successfully completed a recertification audit of its ISO 9001:1994 quality system.

Quasar Microwave Technology Ltd.
June 1, 2000... Quasar Microwave Technology Ltd., Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, has been named Top Small Exporting Company in the South West of the UK. The company received the award at the British Trade International-sponsored Export Awards for Smaller Businesses....

STMicroelectronics.
June 1, 2000... STMicroelectronics, Saint-Genis-Pouilly, France, reports sales of $1.7 B for the first quarter, ended April 1, compared to $1.1 B for the same quarter last year. Net income was $238.4 M (78[cent]/diluted share), compared to $105.1 M for the...

Andrew Corp.
June 1, 2000... Andrew Corp., Orland Park, IL, reports sales of $242.7 M for the second quarter, ended March 31, compared to $172 M for the same quarter last year. Net income was $17.3 M (21[cent]/diluted share), compared to a net income of $7.3 M...

RF Micro Devices Inc.
June 1, 2000... RF Micro Devices Inc., Greensboro, NC, reports sales of $289 M for the year, ended March 31, compared to $152.9 M last year. Net income was $50.1 M (58[cent]/diluted share). Sales for the fourth quarter were $84.8 M, compared to $56.6 M for the...

Alpha Industries Inc.
June 1, 2000... Alpha Industries Inc., Woburn, MA, reports record sales of $184.7 M for the year, ended April 2, compared to $126.3 M last year. Net income was $24.4 M (6[cent]/share). Sales for the fourth quarter were $56.9 M, compared to $34.3 M for the...

REMEC Inc.
June 1, 2000... REMEC Inc., San Diego, GA, reports sales of $189.2 M for the year ended January 31, compared to $179.2 M last year. Net loss was $6.7 M (27[cent]/diluted share). Sales for the fourth quarter were $50.3 M, compared to $42.5 M for the same period...

Norsat International Inc.
June 1, 2000... Norsat International Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, reports sales of $63.5 M for the year, ended December 31, 1999, compared to $43.4 M last year. Net loss was $7.9 M (37[cent]/share). Sales for the fourth quarter were $20.7 M,...

Microwave Power Devices Inc.
June 1, 2000... Microwave Power Devices Inc., Hauppauge, NY, reports sales of $12.4 M for the first quarter, ended March 31, compared to $17.2 M for the same quarter last year. Net loss was $1 M (9[cent]/share), compared to a net income of $832 K...

Ericsson Microelectronics.
June 1, 2000... Ericsson Microelectronics has purchased 375,000 newly issued shares of Merrimac Industries Inc. common stock, representing approximately 17.5 percent of Merrimac's outstanding stock, at a price of $9 per share. This agreement gives Ericsson...

Microwave Power Devices Inc.
June 1, 2000... Microwave Power Devices Inc. (MPD) has entered into an agreement with Unique Broadband Systems Inc. to supply amplifiers to be used in a terrestrial repeater system. The contract is valued at $13.3 M.

EMS Technologies Inc.
June 1, 2000... EMS Technologies Inc.'s Space & Technology Group, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has received a $6 M contract from the Canadian Space Agency to provide the research and development for a demonstration digital-mesh-connectivity system on Telesat's...

Giga-tronics Inc.
June 1, 2000... Giga-tronics Inc.'s Instrument Division, San Ramon, CA, has received an order in excess of $2.3 M for its three-slot VXI microwave synthesizer. The order came through Midoriya Electric Co. Ltd., Instrument Division's distributor in Tokyo,...

Signal Technology Corp.
June 1, 2000... Signal Technology Corp.'s Keltec Division, Walton Beach, FL, has been awarded in excess of $10.5 M worth of new development and follow-on production contracts during the first quarter of this year. The majority of these awards have follow-on...

Communications & Power Industries Holding Corp.
June 1, 2000... Communications & Power Industries Holding Corp.-Microwave Power Products Division (CPI-MPP), Palo Alto, CA, has been awarded a contract for the production of 29 dual-pulsed traveling-wave tube assemblies by ITT Industries' Avionics Division....

Alpha Industries.
June 1, 2000... Alpha Industries, Woburn, MA, has received design wins and initial production orders for RF semiconductors to be used by three of the world's largest personal computer manufacturers in high speed wireless data modules. Alpha's semiconductors...

PERSONNEL.
June 1, 2000... Condor Systems Inc. has appointed Kent Hutchinson president, CEO and chairman of the board. Previously, Hutchinson was president of Norden Systems and executive VP of Kaman Aerospace Corp. Alpha Industries Inc. has elected David Aldrich...

Wireless Technologies Corp.
June 1, 2000... Wireless Technologies Corp., Springdale, AR, has named four firms to represent its filters and diplexers. Left Coast Ventures will cover Northern California while Excellence Engineering has come on board for China. Israel will be covered by...

Radio Engineering Services.
June 1, 2000... Radio Engineering Services, Torino, Italy, has appointed Hal Tenney to represent the company's HERALD radio link design software in the US and Canada. Tenney is a wireless industry consultant based in Fair Oaks, CA.

BCP (Bird Component Products).
June 1, 2000... BCP (Bird Component Products), Largo, FL, has appointed two companies to represent its line of attenuators, loads, power divider/combiners and couplers. Spectra-West Sales Inc. will cover Southern California, Arizona and southern Nevada;...

L-3 Communications' Celerity Systems Division.
June 1, 2000... L-3 Communications' Celerity Systems Division, Cupertino, CA, has appointed two new sales representatives. Advanced Technical Marketing (ATM) will represent the company's broadband deep memory signal generation and analysis test and measurement...

Renaissance Electronics Corp.
June 1, 2000... Renaissance Electronics Corp., Boxborough, MA, has selected Microwave Components Marketing (MCM), Melbourne, FL, to represent its products in Florida. Renaissance manufactures isolators, circulators, couplers, combiners, receiver multicouplers,...

Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products Inc.
June 1, 2000... Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products Inc. has appointed Cain Southwest Inc., Tempe, AZ, as its exclusive sales and technical representative in Arizona and New Mexico. Cain will represent the ECCOSORB(R), ECCOSTOCK(r) and ECCOSHIELD(r) product...

Intimate Resource Counseling (IRC).
June 1, 2000... Intimate Resource Counseling (IRC), a consulting firm founded by Robert G. Barbaria, former VP of Mica Microwave, offers a complete solution to marketing, PR, AD composition and production as well as technical support and product evalualion...

Zeta.
June 1, 2000... Zeta, an integrated Defense Technologies company, has launched a newly designed Web site that allows customers to access up-to-date information about the company's products and capabilities. The site, www,zeta-idt.com, permits users to...

M/A-COM Inc.
June 1, 2000... M/A-COM Inc. has announced that its Web site (www.macom.com) is now accessible using any Web-enabled mobile phone. Incorporating menu-driven technology, the site has the capability of allowing users to e-mail or fax information directly from...

Andrew Corp.
June 1, 2000... Andrew Corp. has launched a new document delivery service that conveys information about the company's products and services at any time. The service can be accessed directly from www.andrew.com and contains more than 2000 documents that can be...

Rockwell Collins.
June 1, 2000... As part of Rockwell Collins' continuing effort to offer expanded service, customers may now access the Collins Aviation Services Mall at www.shopcollins.com. The site provides real-time access to an "e-Mail" that offers an array of on-line...

SIMULATION OF INTERDIGITATED STRUCTURES USING TWO-COUPLED-LINE MODELS.
June 1, 2000... GUSTAVO L[acute{O}]PEZ-RISUE[tilde{N}]O JOS[acute{E}] I. ALONSO Some commercial microwave GAD programs do not incorporate models for more than three coupled lines. This fact is especially critical in the design and analysis of...

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF WIDEBAND MODULATED SIGNALS.
June 1, 2000... Phase and/or amplitude modulated signals are often used for information transmission in microwave communications systems. For simulating such a communications system, these types of signals are most naturally represented by their lowpass...

LOW NOISE VCOs: KEY COMPONENTS FOR BASE STATIONS.
June 1, 2000... The great economic success of modern mobile radio systems such as GSM and the digital communication system (DCS) means even greater utilization of the capacity of existing channels. Therefore, it is immensely important to adhere to GSM...

THERMAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR WIDE BANDGAP TRANSISTORS.
June 1, 2000... The peak junction temperature of a transistor is an important factor in determining its lifetime and output power degradation over time. Many design parameters determine the temperature rise in the semiconductor, including the transistor...

HIGH POWER RF LDMOS TRANSISTORS FOR AVIONICS APPLICATIONS.
June 1, 2000... KORN[acute{E}] VENNEMA This article describes the inherent advantages of using laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) amplifies in high power avionics transponder applications. In comparing this technology to bipolars, key...

FRACTIONAL OUT-OF-BAND POWER FORMULAS FOR BPSK, QPSK AND MSK.
June 1, 2000... Fractional out-of-band power (FOBP) has for some time been a standard metric of spectral containment for digital data signals. [1] For any given modulation scheme the FOBP can be measured experimentally or calculated theoretically. The...

HIGH PERFORMANCE, Low COST, SURFACE-MOUNT QUADRATURE COUPLERS.
June 1, 2000... As system requirements increase, the demands placed on passive components also continue to rise in an effort to meet ever-increasing consumer demands. Industry is demanding higher performance in smaller footprints at a lower cost. Current...

ISM Wireless Data Antennas.
June 1, 2000... This new Web page is dedicated exclusively to the promotion of the company's growing portfolio of industrial, scientific and medical band (ISM) wireless data antennas. By clicking on each category, users can browse and print out detailed...

Components and Antennas.
June 1, 2000... This new and revised Web site features electronically tunable RF components (ETRF) and electronically steerable antennas for wireless communications. Products include tunable filters, delay lines and phased-array antennas, which utilize the...

DC-40 GHz Microwave Products.
June 1, 2000... This Web site overviews the latest technology high performance filters, diplexers, duplexers and multiplexers covering the DC to 40 GHz range. An on-line catalog and company profile can also be accessed.

Digitally Tunable RF Filters.
June 1, 2000... Visit this Web site to view standard tunable filter products, learn more about the technology utilized in the company's unique hopping filters, download its free tunable filter software or send an e-mail request for additional information.

Waveguide Components and Subassemblies.
June 1, 2000... Visit this company's Web site to discover how it became the largest independent producer of waveguide components and subassemblies in the microwave industry. In addition, learn more about waveguide bends and twists, directional couplers and...

High Performance Printed Circuits.
June 1, 2000... This Web site offers information on prototype to high volume, high performance printed circuits, including doublesided, multilayer and mixed dielectric designs. The company also bonds printed circuits to metal carriers using Flexlink II...