Microwave Journal articles from March 2001

Microwave Journal archives from March 2001

MEMS FOR RF/MICROWAVE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS: THE NEXT WAVE.
March 1, 2001... Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is on the verge of revolutionizing RF and microwave applications. [1] The requirements of present day and future RF/microwave systems for lower weight, volume, power consumption and cost with...

US and UK Sign Joint Strike Fighter Agreement.(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The US Secretary of Defense and the UK Minister for Defence Procurement participated in a ceremony that formally established a US/UK commitment to cooperate in the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the Joint Strike...

[pound]8.5 M BOWMAN Risk Reduction Program Award.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... A TRW-led team has received an [pound]8.5 M 10-month risk reduction contract to reduce risks associated with the start-up and performance of the BOWMAN Supply and Services contract scheduled for award in September. The risk reduction effort is...

Lockheed Martin in Remote Sensing Alliance in Turkey.(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. has formed an alliance with Space Imaging and Cukurova Holding/INTA to expand its satellite technology in the international market place and provide the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) with high resolution remote...

Electronic Systems Center System to Reduce Foul Weather Landing Difficulties.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The US Electronics System Center (ESC), Hanscom AFB, MA, has delivered a GCA-2000, a new mobile Ground Control Approach system, to the US Air Force Air Mobility Command. The mobile radar system, three radars in one, includes a mobile...

Meteorological Satellite Imaging Sensor Award.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Raytheon Co. has received a contract from the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO) valued at $158.2 M to provide imaging sensor instruments for a new polar-orbiting...

AIM-9X Low Rate Initial Production Contract Awarded.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2001... Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $43 M firm fixed-price contract for low rate initial production (LRIP) of the AIM-9X next generation Sidewinder missile. The Lot 1 award includes 103 all-up-round missiles, 39 captive air training missiles and...

Polish PIT Develops Radar Family.(International Pages)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... Details of a family of radars available from Poland's Warsaw-based Prezemyslowy Instytut Telekomunikacji (PIT -- Telecommunications Research Institute) have recently been released. Equipments detailed include the ARS-400 maritime surveillance...

Envisat Completes Final Testing.(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Europe's eight ton Envisat Earth observation satellite is undergoing final tests (at the European Space Agency's (ESA) facility at Noordwijk in the Netherlands) prior to being shipped to the Kourou launch site in French Guyana in April....

R&S Launches Laboratory Power Supply & Extended Range Vector Network Analyser.(International Pages)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... German contractor Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) has launched a new programmable laboratory power supply and an extended range vector network analyser that are designated as the NGM02 and ZVK devices, respectively. Taking these in the order given, the...

Thales Launches Centaur, Wins Naval EW Contract.(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... UK contractor Thales Sensors has developed a new electronic support (ES) system (designated as Centaur) that is to replace the company's Sceptre A ES systems aboard Royal Australian Navy ANZAC class frigates. Sources consulted suggest that the...

Philips Adds New ASSPs to its PTN Product Family.(International Pages)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... Netherlands contractor Philips Semiconductors has added a range of Application Specific Standard Product (AS SP) devices to its Performance Telecom/Networking (PTN) product family. Designed to solve complex component level design problems in...

Reports Address Enterprise Wireless LANs and MTU Broadband.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Separate reports from Cahners In-Stat Group deal with the future of two segments of the wireless market. The first, "2000 Enterprise Wireless LAN Market Update," forecasts that this segment will rise to $3 B by 2002. Noting that the segment has...

Mobile Location Services Market to Generate $20 B by 2006.(International Pages)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... A report from Ovum, "Mobile Location Services: Market Strategies," forecasts that the mobile location service market will be worth $20 B by 2006. Services included in this market are information tracking, redirection of inbound/outbound calls,...

US Wireless Revenues to Exceed Local Wireline in 2003.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... A report from Pulver.com, "Telephony Unplugged: Wireless Achieves Price Parity with Wireline," predicts that US wireless networks will realize revenues exceeding those for wireline in 2003 when wireless call charges will reach the same price...

Personal Location System Added to Wristwatch.
March 1, 2001... Wherify Wireless, Inc. (formerly World Tracking Technologies) has embedded a miniaturized location system into a wristwatch which permits the wearer's position to be determined. The Wherify Personal Location system employs Global...

Tri-Mode Digital Phones Now Standard Equipment on 2001 BMW 7 Series.
March 1, 2001... Motorola and BMW have announced that they have cooperated to introduce a digital phone based on the Motorola Timeport [TM] fully integrated dual-band multi-network system which will be marketed as the BMW CPT 8000. Under an agreement with an...

Time Warner to Deploy New Lucent High Capacity Optical System.
March 1, 2001... Lucent Technologies and Time Warner Telecom, Inc. have signed an agreement to deploy the newest Lucent optical networking system, a system with the capacity to carry simultaneous one-page e-mail messages from every person in the US and Canada....

INDUSTRY NEWS.
March 1, 2001... Martin R. Stiglitz, former Technical Editor of Microwave Journal, died January 20, 2001. He was 80 years old. Don Herskovitz, Contributing Editor to our sister publication, Journal of Electronic Defense, was a close friend and colleague of...

Francisco Partners and a Citicorp Venture Capital unit (CVC).
March 1, 2001... Francisco Partners and a Citicorp Venture Capital unit (CVC) have officially acquired approximately 80 percent of American Microsystems Inc. (AMI) from Japan Energy Corp.-subsidiary GA-TEK with an enterprise value of more than $525 M. GA-TEK...

STMicroelectronics.
March 1, 2001... STMicroelectronics has agreed to purchase the assets of the Consumer Electronics (CE) business of RAVISENT Technologies Inc. ST will invest approximately $55 M to acquire the assets.

Brush Engineered Materials.
March 1, 2001... The Electronics Products Division of Brush Engineered Materials has reorganized into two separate companies. The powder metal products group and electronic packaging products group changed to Zentrix Technologies Inc., while the ceramic...

Microcosm Technologies Inc.
March 1, 2001... Microcosm Technologies Inc. has changed its name to Coventor Inc., The name is intended to better reflect the company's position as a product development company.

Frontier Electronics.
March 1, 2001... Frontier Electronics has opened a new manufacturing facility in China. Located in Dong Guan, the new plant will be the primary manufacturing facility for the company's extensive lines of SMD magnetic chip inductors, power chokes, coils and...

Agilent Technologies Inc.
March 1, 2001... Agilent Technologies Inc. has extended its reach into a variety of markets through a new partnership program that combines Agilent's systems and resources with the core competencies of best-in-class partners to provides customers with...

Westica Limited.
March 1, 2001... Westica Limited reached a deal to supply Sound Broadcast Services (SBS) with their multirate radio products. This commitment provides SBS with the latest digital developments in digital wireless technologies ensuring reliable, high quality,...

Andrew Corp.
March 1, 2001... Andrew Corp. signed a three-year agreement to supply DMC Stratex Networks Inc. with wireless antennas for deployment in access solutions worldwide. The agreement is estimated to be worth approximately $10 to $15 M per year. In related news,...

Merrimac Industries Inc.
March 1, 2001... Merrimac Industries Inc. has formed a new B2B initiative that will allow all of the company's domestic and international facilities to be networked with each other and its customers and suppliers worldwide. This IT initiative will allow for...

ADC's Wireline Systems Divisions.
March 1, 2001... ADC's Wireline Systems Divisions facility, Tustin, CA, has received TL 9000 certification. TL 9000 is a quality standard developed specifically for hardware and software manufacturers, as well as service providers, within the telecommunications...

REMEC Inc.
March 1, 2001... REMEC Inc. has terminated its public offer to purchase all of the outstanding securities of Allgon AB. A condition of the offer was that shareholders representing more than two-thirds of the total number of shares and votes of Allgon accept the...

Accellera.
March 1, 2001... Accellera, the EDA organization resulting from the unification of Open Verilog International (OVI) and VHDL International (VI), and the IEEE announced that the VTIAL ASIC modeling specification for VHDL simulation has been approved by the...

Electronic Components and Assemblies Association (ECA).
March 1, 2001... Applications for exhibition space at the 2001 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and PDA Exhibition (IFCS&E) are now available, according to the Electronic Components and Assemblies Association (ECA), a sector of Electronic...

Andrew Corp.
March 1, 2001... Andrew Corp. reports sales of $280.5 M for the first quarter ended December 31, compared to $233.6 M for the same period in 1999. Net income was $20.9 M (26[cts.]/diluted share) compared to $16.8 M (21[cts.]/diluted share) for the first quarter...

Cree Inc.
March 1, 2001... Cree Inc. reports record sales of $41.49 M for the second quarter of FY 2001, compared to $24.81 M for the same period last year. Net income was $13.86 M (18[cts.]/di1uted share) compared to $5.65 M (8[cts.]/diluted share) for the second...

Superconductor Technologies Inc.
March 1, 2001... Superconductor Technologies Inc. reports record sales of $3.5 M for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2000, compared to $842 K for the same period last year. The company also reports record sales of $7.6 M for fiscal year 2000, compared to...

RF Industries Ltd.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... RF Industries Ltd. reports record sales of $2.94 M for the fourth quarter ended October 31, 2000, compared to $1.72 M for the same period last year. Net income was $437 K (11[cts.]/diluted share) compared to $238 K (7[cts.]/di1uted share for...

NurLogic Design Inc.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... NurLogic Design Inc. has closed a $5 M round of corporate financing from Rambus Inc.. This investment marks the first outside funding for NurLogic, and will be applied towards the further expansion of technology, marketing and business...

Merrimac Industries Inc.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Merrimac Industries Inc. has received a $1 M contract from Lockheed Martin Corp. for the Global Positioning System (GPS) GPS Antenna Retrofit Program. The program is designed to enhance the output power of older satellites for broader coverage...

Ceramaseal.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Ceramaseal has received approximately $1 M in orders for custom-designed feedthroughs, which will be used within The European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collidor. The CERN laboratory is located just west of Geneva...

Alfred G. Hansen.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... EMS Technologies Inc. named Alfred G. Hansen as its chief executive officer (CEO). Hansen has been a member of the company's board of directors for over a year and has served as CEO and president since the resignation of Thomas E. Sharon in...

Donald K. Schwanz.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The board of directors of CTS Corp. elected Donald K. Schwanz president and chief operating officer. Previously, Schwanz was president of the industrial control business at Honywell Inc.

Pat Lawlor.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... SaRonix appointed Pat Lawlor chief financial officer. Lawlor comes to SaRonix after serving as senior financial manager at Aerojet Fine Chemicals.

Andrew J. Viterbi.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Flarion Technologies Inc. named Andrew J. Viterbi to the company's board of directors. Viterbi is the co-founder of QUALCOMM Inc. and a co-inventor of CDMA based digital cellular technology.

Alfred J. Stein.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Advanced Power Technology Inc. appointed Alfred J. Stein to its board of directors. Stein has over 40 years of executive management experience and previously served as chairman of the board and CEO at VLSI Technology.

David Doubledee.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... David Doubledee has joined HTA Photomask as VP and general manager of HTA Enterprises, a California corporation. Doubledee has over 30 years experience in semiconductor photomask-making, most recently with LSI Photomask.

Grant Palmer.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... VertexRSI, a TriPoint Global Co., named Grant Palmer group vice president of national sales. Palmer joins the company from StarBand Communications, where he served as the general manager for the Atlanta Group. In related news, the company has...

Jonette Wylie.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... BTC Electronic Components appointed Jonette Wylie VP of sales. Wylie joins the company with over 20 years of senior level sales management experience.

Joey R. Weedon.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Wireless Communications Association (WCA) appointed Republican Governers Association (RGA) Deputy Communications director Joey R. Weedon to be WCA communications director. Weedon will supervise external and internal communications for the...

Peter Knight.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... IFR Systems Inc. appointed Peter Knight director of human resources. Knight joins IFR from Merrill Corp., where he was international human resources manager.

Amir Saket.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... ITT Industries, Cannon named Amir Saket director of manufacturing for connector products in the Americas. Saket will be responsible for managing, manufacturing tooling, prototyping, facilities, maintenance, industrial and mechanical engineering...

Johan Fick.
March 1, 2001... Johan Fick has been appointed director-African region for LBA International Inc. Fick will be responsible for developing product sales and business opportunities for the LBS Group companies on the African continent. In related news, LBA...

Ken Taylor.
March 1, 2001... Polar Instruments appointed Ken Taylor product manager for its leading range of signal integrity tools for PCB design and manufacture. Taylor has been working as a consultant to Polar Instruments since 1999.

Sidney Arnow.
March 1, 2001... American Technical Ceramics (ATC) promoted Sidney Arnow to business development manager, Asia. Most recently, Arnow served as the company's eastern regional sales manager. In related news, the company appointed Joseph Tiemey product manager....

David Smith.
March 1, 2001... Filtronic Compound Semiconductors appointed David Smith strategic business manager. Smith has over 20 years experience within the RF/microwave market. The company also named Peter Bradley product marketing manager. Bradley will further...

Advanced System Design Inc. (ASD).
March 1, 2001... Advanced System Design Inc. (ASD) is a design and development company specializing in system engineering, RF, communications and power system engineering. The company's experience encompasses component to system level design for commercial,...

Techtrol Cyclonetics Inc.
March 1, 2001... Techtrol Cyclonetics Inc., New Cumberland, PA, appointed Schibley Associates Inc., Fairfax, VA, to represent its line of low noise controlled oscillators and microwave frequency sources and multipliers in Marlyand, Virginia, Delaware and...

BI Technologies.
March 1, 2001... BI Technologies, Fullerton, CA, has appointed R.O. Whitesall & Associates, Indianapolis, IN, to represent its products in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Mexico.

Everet Charles Technologies (ECT) and its TTI Testron Division.
March 1, 2001... Everet Charles Technologies (ECT) and its TTI Testron Division now offer test engineers the ability to request design quotations and follow the progress of user specified automated test equipment fixtures online. The ECT Web site,...

International Resistive Company Inc. (IRC).
March 1, 2001... International Resistive Company Inc. (IRC) has redesigned its Web site to maximize overall accessibility and depth of information. The site, www.irctt.com, incorporates a number of user-friendly features including a customer portal which...

Pomona Electronics.
March 1, 2001... Pomona Electronics has launched its reengineered Web site, www.pomonaelectronics.com. The site incorporates an interactive version of the company's 92-page catalog containing complete color photographs and technical information on all products....

A BAND FOR ALL REASONS.
March 1, 2001... Software radios promise to radically redefine battlefield communications. There was a situation reported during the 1999 NATO air campaign over Kosovo where German and American aircraft on the same mission with radios operating on the same...

UNIVERSITY ENGINEERS TEAM WITH WIRELESS INDUSTRY FOR MUTUAL BENEFITS.
March 1, 2001... Symbiosis is the key in the marriage of higher education and industry. That's what Larry Dunleavy thinks. That's what his colleagues think. So do their many supporters from the microwave and wireless industry. Dunleavy is an electrical...

A LOW COST PLANAR FILTER FOR 60 GHz APPLICATIONS.
March 1, 2001... A low cost printed planar filter on alumina ceramic substrate was developed at 60 GHz. This filter is advantageous in cost, size, weight and connectivity to MMICs. It is especially suitable for millimeter-wave module integration, where MMICs...

EXPLOITING FILTER SYMMETRY.
March 1, 2001... Symmetry is an element of beauty. Besides it's esthetic appeal, symmetry is practical. Symmetry has two important manifestations in electric-wave filters: symmetry with respect to element values mirrored about the input and output (physical...

CAD OF A COMPACT MONOPULSE COMPARATOR NETWORK USING PLANAR MAGIC TEE JUNCTIONS FOR AIRBORNE SLOTTED ARRAY ANTENNAS.
March 1, 2001... The operating principle and design of compact, non-standard, reduced height waveguide planar magic tee junctions are described. The distinguishing feature of these components is the placement of the difference port on a layer separated from...

THERMAL MODELING OF HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS WITH PULSED I-V MEASUREMENTS.
March 1, 2001... An extraction procedure for thermal parameters of high power heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) with pulsed I-V measurements is presented. The pulsed measurements become essential to model thermal effect and frequency dispersion of high...

NYQUIST QUADRATURE FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING FOR SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY.
March 1, 2001... The selection of a data modulation scheme for radio transmission usually involves a trade among a number of parameters, including communications efficiency (bit error rate (BER) vs. signal-to-noise ratio), bandwidth efficiency and factors...

A FOUR-PORT MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TO SPEED ON-WAFER CALIBRATION AND TEST.
March 1, 2001... A four-port measurement system comprising an inexpensive coaxial switch matrix and a comprehensive free software package extends the capabilities of a user's two-port automatic network analyzer and probe station to three- and four-port...

THE NEW WORLD OF COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN SOFTWARE.
March 1, 2001... The world of wired and wireless communications is undergoing fervent change. Ten years ago, cell phones were bulky and expensive, and GaAs and MMICS were the technology of choice for RF and microwave applications. Today, cell phones fit in...

LOW COST ANTENNA MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS.
March 1, 2001... A new family of low cost systems for antenna pattern measurements has been developed. These systems, shown in Figure 1, come with complete hardware and user-friendly software for making quick, accurate and cost-effective measurements of antenna...

A NEW APPROACH TO WIRELESS PROPAGATION PREDICTION.(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... A software tool has been developed that provides accurate, site-specific radio signal predictions for urban locations with many different receiver and transmitter antennas. The tool provides results very quickly, and is adept at providing new...

A LINEAR LDMOS AMPLIFIER FOR 3GPP APPLICATIONS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... With the introduction of digital modulation formats and the trend towards multi-carrier amplifiers, base station power amplifiers require the use of transistors with high peak power capability. The amplifier is required to meet stringent...

A 2.7 GHz RF/IF GAIN AND PHASE DETECTOR.
March 1, 2001... Gain and phase are fundamental properties of all radio systems. The need to measure these parameters is exemplified through the ubiquitous use of vector analyzers. The AD8302 gain/phase detector integrated circuit was developed to accurately...

Software Tools.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site supports and markets the company's software tools for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in the Time Domain. CST MICROWAVE STUDIO,[TM] CST DESIGN STUDIO[TM] and MAFIA 4 have benefited from over 20 years experience in the...

A Better Way: Antenna Measurement.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site offers a better way to measure antennas that significantly improves product development cycles. e-tenna[TM] offers access to a completely new state-of-the-art service that generates accurate, repeatable gain and pattern data in...

Solid State, Low Noise and Power Amplifiers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site provides a variety of technical and corporate information, including product data sheets and technical articles (in .pdf) for the company's comprehensive product line of ferrite isolators, circulators, solid state low noise and...

RF to Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuits.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site includes the full line of standard product data sheets in .pdf format. Sparameters of selected products, a mixer spur chart calculator, as well as applications notes and other topics of interest. Over 100 MMIC die, ceramic...

RF and Microwave Components and Subsystems.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site outlines its custom design capabilities as well as their extensive product line of RF and microwave components and subsystems by providing a variety of technical and corporate information, including product data sheets and...

Advanced Frequency Synthesizers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site was launched to complement the company's main Web site. The site allows users to download and view photographs, data and electrical specifications for advanced frequency synthesizers for commercial wireless and military...

Narrowband or Broadband Designer and Manufacturer.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site features catalog or custom components operating from 100 MHz to 26.5 GHz. Passive, analog current or voltage controlled, linearized, digitally controlled programmable models designed for temperature compensation are also featured....

RF/Microwave Components and Subsystems.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This new Web site outlines the companies overall design and manufacturing capabilities of RF/microwave components and subsystems as well as a brief description and links to its five operating companies: DML Microwave, Inmet, KDI/Triangle,...

News and New Products.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site details the latest news and new product developments at the company, including corporate information (sales, quality and contact information), and a new and standard products section that features scroll-through tables with links...

Anechoic Chamber Products.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site offers descriptions of the company's products for dielectric, low loss dielectric materials, tuned and broadband absorbers, transmission line and surface suppression absorbers, and anechoic chamber materials. The site provides...

Basestation Antenna and Power Divider Products.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... This Web site contains company news and information, technical tips and fully downloadable data sheets in .pdf format on hundreds of its basestation antenna and power divider products for land mobile, wireless telephone, broadcast and MMDS and...