Microwave Journal articles from May 2000

Microwave Journal archives from May 2000

WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM 2000.
May 1, 2000... Boston is again extending a hearty and warm welcome to the International Microwave Symposium (IMS). We had no way of knowing, seven years ago when we proposed Boston for the year 2000, that this symposium would become such an astounding success...

ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE.
May 1, 2000... The IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and Exhibition has moved back to the East Coast this year for a stop in the historical city of Boston. Symposium attendees are virtually guaranteed an action-packed visit filled with informative...

BOSTON: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
May 1, 2000... When it comes to American history and culture, Boston, the birthplace of American independence, is where it all began. From Paul Revere's House to the Boston Tea Party Ship to the Old North Church, history can be found on every corner. Today,...

F/A-18 Radar Production Contracts Awarded.
May 1, 2000... Raytheon Co. has received two contract awards for the production of the AN/APG-73 radar for installation in US Navy, US Marine Corps and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 aircraft. An award from the Boeing Co. totals approximagely $467.2...

Air Navigation Augmentation Service Company to be Organized.
May 1, 2000... Lockheed Martin has announced its intent to form Synchronetics, [T]M a new company that will provide worldwide navigation services in support of air traffic management modernization. The announcement follows earlier information that Lockheed...

WAAS Demonstrated Successfully.
May 1, 2000... As reported in Government Computing News, recent use of the WAAS in a series of demonstration flights along the East Coast successfully indicated the Raytheon-developed navigation system's capability to augment GPS data to help pilots keep...

10-Year Worldwide Fighter/Attack Aircraft Production Forecast.
May 1, 2000... In its latest forecast, The Teal Group estimates that 2932 combat aircraft with a total value of $136.1 B (in 2000 US dollars) will be built worldwide during the 2000-2009 period. The forecast covers all combat aircraft over 20,000 pounds...

TRW Delivers Next-generation Tactical Reconnaissance Systems.
May 1, 2000... TRW Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has delivered the Guardrail 2000, the latest equipment in the US Army's airborne tactical reconnaissance arsenal. The Guardrail Common Sensor System 2 (Guardrail 2000) will be a key component of the Army's...

Thomson-CSF Wins BIFF Contract.
May 1, 2000... French contractor Thomson-CSF Comsys has been awarded a Euro 38 million contract covering the production of 1500 Battlefield Identification Friend-or-Foe (BIFF) systems for France's armed forces. As currently structured, the French BIFF effort...

Matra Marconi Delivers HIRDLS.
May 1, 2000... Franco-British space contractor Marconi Space (MMS) has supplied the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) with the main flight structure and mechanisms for the High Resolution Dynamic Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) earth observation instrument. To be...

We Are Not Amused!
May 1, 2000... In a lighter than normal vein, Microwave Journal's "International Report" understands that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has objected to the erection of a 20 m mobile telephone transmission mast disguised as a tree near Windsor Castle,...

NATAR Woos Turkey.
May 1, 2000... Representatives of the five-nation Brussels, Belgium-based NATO Advanced Technology Radar (NATAR) consortium have met with representatives of Turkish industry to discuss the possibility of Turkey's participation in the programme. Officially...

Racal Launches World's Smallest TETRA Radio.
May 1, 2000... UK contractor Racal Defence Electronics claims to have created the world's smallest secure Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) standard surveillance radio. The new 380 to 430 MHz band Vector radio is designed specifically for use by police,...

Roke Manor Makes First UMTS Call over a TD-CDMA (TDD) Interface.
May 1, 2000... Roke Manor Research Ltd. claims to have made the world's first Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) standard telephone call over a time division CDMA (TD-CDMA) air interface. Forming part of an experimental time division duplex...

Hong Kong Telecommunications Market Opens Up.
May 1, 2000... The Hong Kong government has opened up its telecommunications market by granting fixed network licenses to five companies and the right to operate international satellite services to 12 other applicants. PSINet HK Ltd., HKNet-Teligent Company...

Cellular Telephone RF Semiconductor Market to Approach $8 B in 2004.
May 1, 2000... A recent report from Strategies Unlimited, "RF Semiconductors for Cellular/PCS Handsets, Market Review and Forecast 2000," forecasts that the worldwide market for RF semiconductor devices in cellular telephones will grow from $3.9 B in 1999 to...

Partnership to Concentrate on Wireless Communications Interfaces.
May 1, 2000... Tokyo-based Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd. and SyberSay Communications Corp. of Sunnyvale, CA have announced a strategic partnership to capitalize on the commercial development of next-generation wireless communications interfaces that will allow users...

Hughes ICO Global Communications Satellites Employ Active Phased-array Antennas.
May 1, 2000... A series of modified Hughes Space and Communications Co. HS 601 spacecraft incorporating active phased-array antennas will form the 12-satellite medium earth orbit ICO Global Communications constellation. The spacecraft are approximately 25...

Fiber-optic Isolator Market to Exceed $850 Min 2009.
May 1, 2000... A recent report from ElectroniCast Corp., "Fiber-optic Isolator Global Market Forecast," predicts a growth in the worldwide demand for fiber-optic isolators from $274.5 M in 1999 to $869.5 M in 2009. North America, which accounted for 45...

Radar-based Adaptive Automotive Cruise Control Demonstrated.
May 1, 2000... TRW recently demonstrated an adaptive automotive cruise control system employing a 77 GHz forward-looking radar. The radar is the product of Autocruise, a TRW and Thomson-CSF joint venture formed to develop, manufacture and sell the system for...

TRW Inc.
May 1, 2000... Advanced technology product and service provider TRW Inc. and first-mile broadband engine supplier for e-business gateways Endgate Corp. have signed a definitive agreement to merge Endgate and TRW Milliwave Inc., a wholly owned TRW subsidiary,...

Millitech Corp.
May 1, 2000... The assets of the legacy business of Millitech Corp. have been purchased by MMW Acquisition LLC from Telaxis Communications Corp. Businesses being transferred include the millimeter-wave components and assemblies and the SATCOM divisions. The...

ADC.
May 1, 2000... ADC, a supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks located in Minneapolis, MN, will acquire Tustin, CA-based PairGain Technologies Inc., a designer of digital subscriber line networking...

Anaren Microwave Inc.
May 1, 2000... Highly integrated microwave component, assembly and subsystem developer Anaren Microwave Inc., Syracuse, NY, has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of RF Power Components Inc., a privately held manufacturer of coaxial and...

Everett Charles Technologies (ECT).
May 1, 2000... Electrical test product and service manufacturer Everett Charles Technologies (ECT), a subsidiary of Dover Corp. located in Pomona, CA, has acquired PrimeYield Systems Inc., a manufacturer of test contactors and the North American distributor...

M/A-COM Inc.
May 1, 2000... M/A-COM Inc., Lowell, MA, has completed the acquisition of ITT GaAsTEK, the GaAsTEK business unit of ITT Industries Inc. The GaAsTEK unit, a provider of GaAs MMIC processes located in Roanoke, VA, will operate as a part of M/A-COM. The...

Norsat International Inc. (NII).
May 1, 2000... Satellite wireless communications product designer Norsat International Inc. (NII), Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has signed an agreement to acquire (subject to regulatory approval) privately held SpectraWorks Inc., a developer of systems...

Remtec Inc.
May 1, 2000... Plated copper thick-film metallized ceramic substrate, chip carrier and package producer Remtec Inc., Norwood, MA, has acquired Tecmark Plating Services and equipped the 13,000-square-foot facility with state-of-the-art electrolytic and...

Signal Technology Corp.
May 1, 2000... Signal Technology Corp., Danvers, MA, and LogiMetrics Inc., Bohemia, NY, have entered into a nonbinding letter of intent pursuant to which Signal Technology will acquire LogiMetrics through the merger of a wholly owned Signal Technology...

Ericsson Components AB.
May 1, 2000... Ericsson Components AB, a supplier of microelectronic components for wireless applications, broadband communications, fixed access and communication via fiber optics, has changed its name to Ericsson Microelectronics AB. In related news, the...

Micro Communications Executive Search (Micro Comm).
May 1, 2000... Micro Communications Executive Search (Micro Comm) is celebrating 20 years in business by expanding its operation into a 10,000-square-foot facility located at 35 New England Business and Research Center, Andover, MA. In addition, the copany...

Connector Concepts Inc.
May 1, 2000... Subminiature RF connector manufacturer Connector Concepts Inc. has opened a new administrative and sales office located at 2301 NW 33rd Court, Unit 104, Pompano Beach, FL 33069 (800) 801-4569, (954) 971-4569, fax (954) 971-5117. The company...

Sikama International Inc.
May 1, 2000... Sikama International Inc. has doubled the size of its manufacturing plant in Santa Barbara, CA and relocated its corporate offices, including sales, marketing and accounting, to an adjacent building to allow for more space in the production...

EMS Wireless.
May 1, 2000... EMS Wireless, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., has opened an enhanced production facility located in Norcross, GA. As a result of the new facility, the company is now one of the largest base station panel antenna manufacturers in the US...

Alpha Industries Inc.
May 1, 2000... Microwave and RF product designer Alpha Industries Inc., Woburn, MA, has received design wins and initial production orders for RF semiconductors to be used by three PC manufacturers in high speed wireless data modules. The company's...

ANADIGICS Inc.
May 1, 2000... ANADIGICS Inc., Warren, NJ, has received an order for more than 10 million RF switches and has begun production shipments to a large US-based manufacturer of wireless handsets. The models AWS5504S14 and AWS5506S14 single-supply 3 V switches...

Ansoft Corp.
May 1, 2000... Ansoft Corp., Pittsburgh, PA, has signed a software licensing agreement with Thomson-CSF, appointing Ansoft Thomson-CSF's approved worldwide supplier of electromagnetic analysis software. Under the terms of the agreement, Ansoft HSFF, a high...

First Source Inc.
May 1, 2000... First Source Inc. has signed a national distribution agreement with RF Industries of San Diego, CA to distribute its full line of coaxial products.

IF Engineering.
May 1, 2000... Signal processing component and subsystem manufacturer IF Engineering, Dudley, MA, has appointed Dage Corp. as its export management company for overseas marketing and sales. This appointment provides IF Engineering with access to more than 30...

Lucent Technologies USA and KMW Korea.
May 1, 2000... Lucent Technologies USA and KMW Korea have reached a general-purpose agreement under which Lucent has named KMW its worldwide supplier of high technology components for IMT-2000. Lucent Technologies' audit team reviewed KMW and its facilities...

Motorola's Commercial Government and Industrial Solutions Sector.
May 1, 2000... Motorola's Commercial Government and Industrial Solutions Sector has agreed to license its [SmartNet.sup.TM] and [SmartZone.sup.TM] trunking protocol to IFR Systems Inc. The agreement enables IFR Systems to provide test equipment for this wide...

QUALCOMM Inc.
May 1, 2000... QUALCOMM Inc. and RF Micro Devices Inc. have announced an alliance to provide advanced power amplifiers for the CDMA market. Initially, the two companies will cooperate on the development of CDMA power amplifiers for inclusion in present and...

Telecom Analysis Systems Inc.
May 1, 2000... Wireless communications test equipment provider Telecom Analysis Systems Inc., Eatontown, NJ, is providing its WCDMA-LAB series test system in conjunction with equipment from Agilent Technologies Inc. to provide a wideband CDMA RF performance...

W.L. Gore & Associates Inc.
May 1, 2000... W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., Newark, DE, has been named Eastern Communications Co.'s (Eastcom) local supplier for surface-mount electromagnetic interference gaskets. A telecom equipment manufacturer for Motorola for more than 10 years, Eastcom...

Xpedion Design Systems Inc.
May 1, 2000... Electronic design automation (EDA) solution provider Xpedion Design Systems Inc. has integrated its Golden-[Gate.sup.TM] series RF simulation and behavioral modeling products with Synopsys' COSSAP(R) system-level designsenes. By coupling these...

Astec Semiconductor.
May 1, 2000... In response to industry demand for power supply products, Astec Semiconductor, Milpitas, CA, has increased production capacity by 400 percent across its voltage reference IC product offering. The increase in production capacity is designed to...

Thick Film Division of Mini-Systems Inc.
May 1, 2000... The Thick Film Division of Mini-Systems Inc., North Attleboro, MA, which is certified to the Life Failure Rate S for MIL-PRF-55342 Fixed-film, Resistor Chip Performance Specification, has established a new program to provide customers with...

Palomar Technologies.
May 1, 2000... Hybrid and semiconductor equipment manufacturer Palomar Technologies, Vista, CA, has shipped its 12th model 3500-II die bonder to Philippines-based Philips Laguna Cabuyao to manufacture RF transistors. The 11 Palomar Technologies bonders...

Rogers Corp.
May 1, 2000... In response to rapid growth in high density flexible interconnect opportunities, Rogers Corp., Rogers, CT, is manufacturing its B/flex(R) 8080 line of liquid photoimageable overcoat (LPI) materials in the US to serve both US and European...

Tektronix Inc.
May 1, 2000... Measurement solution provider Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR, has developed a new business strategy to focus on the global telecommunications industry and computer and Internet infrastructure. Practicing this strategy, the company hopes to...

Los Alamos National Laboratory.
May 1, 2000... A research team at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, has devised a new, more accurate blood test to identify workers who are sensitized to beryllium. The team, led by Babetta Morrone of the Laboratory's...

The Phoenix Company of Chicago Inc.
May 1, 2000... The Phoenix Company of Chicago Inc., Wood Dale, IL, and its affiliated companies, Palco Connector, Mil-Con Inc. and Custom Assembly LLC, have been certified to the ISO 9001 quality system standard. The companies design and manufacture...

Raytheon Microsystems.
May 1, 2000... Raytheon Microsystems, Buena Park, CA, has presented Trenton, NJ-based Stealth Microwave with an award in recognition and appreciation of superior value and service and innovative power amplifier design.

Anaren Microwave Inc.
May 1, 2000... Anaren Microwave Inc.'s board of directors has authorized a three-for-two stock split in the form of a 50 percent stock dividend payable to shareholders of record on May 12. Certificates representing the additional shares resulting from the...

Palomar Technologies GmbH.
May 1, 2000... Erlangen, Germany-based Palomar Technologies GmbH has announced that it has exceeded 1999 sales expectations by more than 10 percent and is forecasting a strong 2000. Demand for the company's wire and die bonders has been particularly strong...

RangeStar Wireless.
May 1, 2000... Embedded antenna technology producer RangeStar Wireless, Aptos, CA, has announced that it is in the final stages of its mezzanine round of financing. This private placement of funds will allow the company to finalize its planned objectives and...

REMEC Inc.
May 1, 2000... REMEC Inc., San Diego, CA, has completed a follow-on public offering of common stock. The company realized net proceeds of $133.2 M for the 3.5 million shares issued.

IFR Systems Inc.
May 1, 2000... IFR Systems Inc. Wichita, KS, has been awarded a three-year, $8.1 M contract from British Telecommunications (BT) to supply calibration and maintenance services for BT's electronic test equipment used in field and laboratory applications...

REMEC Inc.
May 1, 2000... REMEC Inc. has received several new contracts, including an additional $6.2 M fiber-optic component order representing a share of the OC-192 modulator driver business from Nortel Optoelectronics. In addition, REMEC is nearing completion of an...

Andrew Corp.
May 1, 2000... Andrew Corp. has been awarded a $6 M contract to provide broadband wireless system supplier Newbridge Networks Corp. with broadband wireless hub antennas. Andrew will provide its BCA series high gain hub antennas for the Newbridge Networks...

SSPA Microwave Corp.
May 1, 2000... SSPA Microwave Corp. has entered into agreement with the Ministry of Railways, People's Republic of China to supply 12 sets of 40 W and 33 sets of 25 W high performance, Ku-band radio frequency units. The contract is valued at $1.8 M with...

EMS Technologies Inc.
May 1, 2000... EMS Technologies Inc. has been awarded two separate contracts from TRW to supply radio frequency switching systems and electronic power conditioners for the satellite payloads of the Astrolink global broadband communications system. TRW will...

PERSONNEL.
May 1, 2000... * Roger R. Hemminghaus has been elected to the CTS Corp. board of directors. Currently, Hemminghaus is chairman emeritus of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp. and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX. In related news, CTS has named...

UltraRF.
May 1, 2000... High performance laterally diffused metal oxide RF power semiconductor manufacturer UltraRF, Sunnyale, CA, has appointed Sangus to represent its cost-effective RF power semiconductors in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Sebago Molders LLC.
May 1, 2000... Sebago Molders LLC is a new company formed to offer waveguide covers for the microwave industry, including a new line of plastic waveguide covers that solve the problems of poor fit and twisted covers.

Paratek Microwave Inc.
May 1, 2000... Paratek Microwave Inc. has launched a new Web site at www.paratek.com that features the company's line of [Parascan.sup.TM] voltage-tunable dielectric materials used to develop, manufacture and commercialize electronically tunable RF components...

Polyflon Co.
May 1, 2000... Polyflon Co. has launched a newly designed Web site at www.polyflon.com. The site contains descriptions of current and new products, including microwave laminates and circuits, HV/RF capacitors and engineering-grade plastics, as well as...

Olektron Operation of Signal Technology Corp.
May 1, 2000... The Olektron Operation of Signal Technology Corp. has updated its Web site to include more than 12 new products and a complete list of available product data sheets in PDF format. The site, located at www.sigtech.com/olektron, also features new...

VXI Technology Inc.
May 1, 2000... High density modular test solution provider VXI Technology Inc. has launched a new Web site that provides test engineers involved in automated testing with a resource to help specify and document a customized test station. The site,...

DC, LINEAR AC AND NONLINEAR AC STABILITY ANALYSIS USING BIFURCATION AND NYQUIST THEORY.
May 1, 2000... Designing power and low noise amplifiers, gain blocks, multipliers and oscillators for modern communication systems requires delicate trade-offs between various design specifications including linearity, power efficiency, crosstalk between...

MODULATION IMPERFECTIONS IN IS54/136 DUAL-MODE CELLULAR RADIO.
May 1, 2000... Nonideal in-phase and quadrature (IQ) calibration circuits on one hand, and the synthesizer's phase noise spurious response and carrier leakage on the other, affect modulation quality by degrading modulation parameters such as error vector...

AN ANALYSIS OF ENCLOSED COPLANAR STRIPS.
May 1, 2000... With the increasing use of high speed digital circuits in modern electronic devices, coplanar stripline (CPS) transmission lines are of major importance as interconnecting lines. For example, the high speed digital circuits used in differential...

DC AND PULSED IV CHARACTERISTICS OF GAAS MESFET DEVICES.
May 1, 2000... New measurement procedures using a DC and pulsed IV characterization system illustrate the significant effect that the thermal and frequency dispersion phenomena in GaAs MESFETs have on the IV characteristics of the device. The new procedures...

BENEFITS OF AUTOMATED RIBBON BONDING FOR MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS.
May 1, 2000... With today's ever-increasing need for larger bandwidth in telecommunications, datacom, aerospace and defense applications, packaging challenges continue to grow. As the frequency at which the packages are required to operate increases, the wire...

DUPLEXER CONSIDERATIONS FOR X-BAND T/R MODULES.
May 1, 2000... A transmit/receive (T/R) module's duplexer plays a critical role in determining a phased array's reliability, radar cross section (RCS) and performance. Several different block diagrams are typically used to realize the duplexer, but many...

ULTRA-HIGH LINEARITY GAAS MIXERS.
May 1, 2000... Mixers are common devices in modern communication and signal processing systems. They can serve as up- and downconverters and are combined in modulators for different balanced or unbalanced configurations. Current consumption, IP3 performance...

A MULTILEVEL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT FOR WIRELESS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT.
May 1, 2000... Simulation techniques have been in use for many years to support the design and evaluation of RF and microwave systems. During the past three decades, computer-aided engineering (CAE) techniques have matured and are now an integral part of both...

A MULTILAYER PRESS FOR RAPID PCB PROTOTYPE FABRICATION.
May 1, 2000... Until now fabricating prototype multilayer PCBs has been a costly and time-consuming endeavor. Although single-layer prototype boards traditionally are constructed in house, designers have been forced to go to outside shops for their prototype...

SHAPED SECTOR ANTENNAS FOR LMDS AND MMDS HUBS.
May 1, 2000... A line of hub sector antennas for the 24 to 42 GHz local multipoint distribution system (LMDS) and 2.1 to 2.7 GHz multichannel multipoint distribution system (MMDS) wireless access frequency bands has been recently introduced. The goal of the...

ULTRA-HIGH STABILITY MINIATURE OCXOs.
May 1, 2000... The current drive for miniaturization and low cost commercialization is also affecting oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) products. Although burdened by a discrete oven that stabilizes the crystal oscillator's thermal environment, modem...

ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE RF FILTERS FOR LMDS FREQUENCIES.
May 1, 2000... Local multipoint distribution service (LMDS) is a two-way digital wireless communication medium enabling voice, data and video traffic. LMDS applications are located in the 22 to 40 GHz range of the spectrum and provide an attractive solution...

PLASTIC-PACKAGED FETs FOR HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS.
May 1, 2000... With the advent of wireless communications, demands have increased for high power, high linearity and inexpensive power amplifiers. Devices capable of handling high power along with high linearity are being used to design power amplifiers that...

Nonreflective/Absorptive Switch.
May 1, 2000... This variable rise time, high power (1 W), high isolation nonreflective/absorptive SPST switch operates from 500 MHz to 18 GHz (other frequencies are available) with the capability of adjusting the rise time in four discrete steps of 25, 50, 75...

Wideband, High Power Hybrid Coupler.
May 1, 2000... The Xinger(R) series model 2A1306-3 surface-mount 3 dB hybrid coupler is designed for use in high power applications within a 1.8 to 2.5 GHz bandwidth. The unit provides an isolation of 21 dB 'mm) and insertion loss of 0.23 dB (max). In...