Microwave Journal back issues from August 2004:
Coming events.(Calendar)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Radio and Wireless Conference September 19-22, 2004 Atlanta, GA The IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON 2004) presents recent interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology. From components to systems to networks, RAWCON 2004 focuses on how ...
Overcurrent protection coordination of distribution systems.(Workshops & Courses)
Aug 01, 2004 ... * Topics: This course offers an analysis on the topology of a conventional radial feeder distribution system. The course conducts a workshop for coordinating protective devices and then concludes with an analysis of the effects on contingency backup, abnormal operating conditions and ...
Corrosion testing: application and use of salt fog, humidity, cyclic and gas tests.(Workshops & Courses)
Aug 01, 2004 ... * Topics: This two-day hands-on technical training course will provide an understanding of the proper application of ASTM B 117 and will furnish information regarding corrosion testing in general. This will help attendees understand the significance of the salt fog test. Participants will ...
Partners in Design.(Workshops & Courses)
Aug 01, 2004 ... * Topics: Partners in Design details new applications in high performance electronics with emphasis on collaborative design of components, circuits, and systems for maximum performance with optimal time and cost. Ultra-wide-band radio design will be featured with emphasis on multi-band ...
CST user group meeting.(Workshops & Courses)
Aug 01, 2004 ... * Topics: This European user group meeting will offer an informal and enlightening environment where developers and researchers using CST STUDIO software tools can exchange ideas and talk with CST staff about future developments. The program includes customer and corporate presentations ....
MMIC and RFIC design and technology.(Workshops & Courses)
Aug 01, 2004 ... * Topics: This 3-1/2 day course is intended for RF and microwave, system and design engineers, and technical managers who have a firm knowledge of RF engineering principles and require a sound understanding of the design principles, capabilities and production issues ...
EMC practical applications seminar/workshop.(Workshops & Courses)
Aug 01, 2004 ... * Topics: During three days of classes before the workshop, students will study EMC design techniques and the calculations required to design a product to meet compliance regulations. The workshop will help design engineers and technicians apply the EMC design principles ...
Communications satellite antennas with on-orbit pattern flexibility.(Technical Feature)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Commercial communications satellite operators face a difficult problem. In the rapidly evolving global telecommunications industry, entire market segments can emerge, thrive, change and disappear during the fifteen-year on-orbit lifetime of a modern communications satellite. To address ...
US Military and Government Demand for Global Satellite Communications rising.(Defense News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Since the events of September 11, satellite operators have experienced a significant increase in US military and government demand for commercial satellite communications. A new study from Frost & Sullivan, "US Military and Government Demand for Global Satellite Communications," ...
US Air Force successfully launches GPS IIR satellite.(Defense News)(Global Positioning System)
Aug 01, 2004 ... An upgraded Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral. The satellite features significant performance upgrades, including an advanced antenna panel, which will increase power for GPS receivers ....
Northrop Grumman reaches milestone in development of embedded antennas.(Defense News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Northrop Grumman Corp, has completed laboratory testing of a 1/5th scale model of a new, embedded antenna that could replace the current satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna in the US Navy's Advanced Hawkeye early warning and battle management aircraft. The milestone represents the ...
Air Force approves $5.3 M Raytheon maverick variant evaluation.(Defense News)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Raytheon Co. has been awarded a US Air Force contract to conduct a utility evaluation of the Lock-On-After-Launch[TM] (LOAL) variant of the AGN-65 Maverick missile. The $5.3 M contract, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, ...
ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006 goes to Hong Kong.(International Report)(International Telecommunication Union)(plans for industry conference)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Yoshio Utsumi, has confirmed the recommendation of the ITU TELECOM Board to hold the next ITU TELECOM WORLD in 2006 in Hong Kong, China, following an evaluation of the final offers received from Geneva and Hong Kong ...
Watch this space as European satellite giants form alliance.(International Report)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... Alcatel and Finmeccanica have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their space activities and form alliances in the space sector through the creation of two sister companies, to which both partners will contribute their respective satellite industrial and service activities. ...
An ACE in the pack for BAE.(International Report)(BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre joins European Antenna Centre of Excellence)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) has been selected to join the European Antenna Centre of Excellence (ACE) initiative, established to provide a European wide platform for research and development into the next generation of antenna technologies. The ACE initiative is funded to ...
Saab Ericsson Space gets landmark order from Lockheed Martin.(International Report)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... In what is considered to be a significant breakthrough, Saab Ericsson Space AB, Sweden, has received an order for Ku-band frequency converters for the JCSAT-10 payload from Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, which will be delivered on a 12 month schedule. The converters ...
Cogent's Tetrapol wins NATO support in Kabul.(International Report)(Cogent Defence and Security Networks)(North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... NATO forces in Afghanistan will soon benefit from enhanced communications following a contract award to Cogent Defence and Security Networks, the UK operating company of EADS Defence and Communications Systems Group. Under the contract the company will install a secure, trunked Tetrapol ...
TRL Technology joins the Navy.(International Report)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004; ... UK-based radio and satellite communications systems specialist, TRL Technology Ltd., has supplied its turnkey Asset Tracking solution to the Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare Centre, as part of an important trial initiative for blue force tracking. This builds on the company's recent contract ...
ABI Research reveals upswing in cellular market.(Commercial Market)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... UMTS, after several years of relative stagnation, is now surging ahead strongly, according to ABI Research's latest "Wireless Infrastructure Quarterly Service." Evidence suggests that this year the UMTS market growth rate should approximately double its 2003 performance. While conventional ...
MEMS industry finding success one step at a time.(Commercial Market)(Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems)(Industry Overview)
Aug 01, 2004 ... While the first half of 2003 was not terribly promising for Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) suppliers, business activity picked up considerably in the fourth quarter and has remained strong through the first half of 2004, reports In-Stat/MDR. The high tech market research firm ...
RFID tag market up for grabs.(Commercial Market)(Radio Frequency Identification)
Aug 01, 2004 ... The Electronic Product Code (EPC)-based RFID tag market shows potential for a dramatic revamp over the late 2004/early 2005 period, according to the latest intelligence from ABI Research. Faced with meeting looming mandates from both commerce and government, the Hardware Action Group ...
Wi-Fi and UWB to play leapfrog in home entertainment.(Commercial Market)(Ultra Wide Band)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Technologies for networking home entertainment equipment will compete for dominance over the next five years but ultimately Wi-Fi will use 802.11n to continue its early lead, according to a new study by ABI Research. The report, "Wi-Fi Home Entertainment Networks," identifies three ...
L-3 Communications.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... L-3 Communications, a defense contractor, announced that it will acquire Cincinnati Electronics, a provider of military infrared imaging sensors and ...
Smiths Interconnect.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Smiths Interconnect, a division within Smiths Group, completed the acquisition of TRAK Microwave and TECOM Industries, designers and manufacturers of microwave ...
StratEdge Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... StratEdge Corp., a designer and producer of packages for high speed semiconductors, announced that a deal has been reached to transfer control of the company to a management group headed ...
DuPont.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... DuPont announced the transfer of the chemical mechanical planarization slurry business of DuPont EKC Technology to Dupont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC (DA NanoMaterials), a 50/50 joint venture of Dupont and Air Products. The move ...
Modelithics Inc., Tampa, FL and Cree Microwave Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Modelithics Inc., Tampa, FL and Cree Microwave Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cree Inc., announced the availability of a library of high accuracy nonlinear models for a family of LDMOS power transistors manufactured by Cree Microwave. These models have been produced as ...
Ansoft Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Ansoft Corp. announced a collaboration with Synopsys Inc., which will provide streamlined IC and package co-design and analysis design ...
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Atmel[R] Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Atmel[R] Corp. jointly announced that Atmel will manufacture and sell chips based on Cypress's 2.4 GHz WirelessUSB[TM] technology. Wireless USB chips are currently used in low data rate wireless devices. According ...
Vector Fields.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Vector Fields, a specialist in software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields, has signed an agreement to market the CLASP software developed by Culham Electromagnetics and Lightning Ltd. based in Abingdon, UK. The CLASP software ...
PCTEL Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... PCTEL Inc. announced that Comarco Wireless Test Solutions will be distributing PCTEL's Wi-Fi Analyzer. The Analyzer, which operates on PocketPC platforms, permits IT managers and others to ...
RF Micro Devices Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced that it has established an assembly facility at its Beijing, China, location to provide internal module packaging capabilities. The new facility is expected to help streamline RFMD's manufacturing supply chain and contribute directly to the ...
MICA Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... MICA Corp. announced the opening of its new 22,000 square-foot facility located in Manteca, CA. The new facility ...
Elcoteq Network Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Elcoteq Network Corp. announced that it will expand its operations to Bangalore, ...
Unity Wireless Corp.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Unity Wireless Corp., a developer of integrated wireless subsystems and power ...
ANADIGICS Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... ANADIGICS Inc. has been granted patent 6,580,321 for a new active clamping circuit ...
SV Microwave Inc.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... SV Microwave Inc. has been presented with the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems Excellence Award (the highest US Navy award ...
Laird Technologies.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Laird Technologies Japan employee, Chris Alderson, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. This prestigious award, for ...
Stratex Networks Inc.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Stratex Networks Inc. announced that during the current quarter it has received new orders totaling $6.4 M from a major mobile carrier serving Russia. These current orders include both Altium[R] MX and XP4 ...
SDP Components.(Contracts)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... SDP Components, a designer and manufacturer of RF and microwave components for custom assemblies for wireless applications, announced a multi-million dollar supply agreement with REMEC Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, SDP achieved preferred supplier ...
Merrimac Industries Inc.(Financial News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Merrimac Industries Inc. reports sales of $7.6 M for the first quarter of 2004 ended April 3, 2004, compared to $6.5 for the same period in 2003. Net ...
Micronetics Inc.(Financial News)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Micronetics Inc. reports sales of $13.8 M for the fourth quarter of 2004 ended March 31, 2004, compared to $10.7 M for the same period in 2003. Net income for the ...
Micro-Ant.(New Market Entry)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Micro-Ant announced a strategic partnering with ISG Broadband of California and Proactive Design of New Hampshire. Together these three companies form a turnkey solution to customers in need of ...
Aeroflex/Weinschel Inc.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Aeroflex/Weinschel Inc. announced that Mark Darrow has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing. Darrow has 20 years of experience in the RF/microwave industry and was most recently the vice ...
MI Technologies.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... MI Technologies has appointed Michael J. Kujawa vice president of sales, effective immediately. In this new assignment, Kujawa is responsible for the company's domestic and international ...
TriPoint Global Communications.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... TriPoint Global Communications announced that Tom Goebelbecker has been appointed vice president, sales for the company's VertexRSI programs division in Duluth, GA. Goebelbecker joined the company last year as vice president, sales for the company's Gabriel business unit ....
Quinstar Technology Inc.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Ken Shade has joined Quinstar Technology Inc., Torrance, CA, as vice president of sales. Shade held sales positions ...
Park Electrochemical Corp.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Park Electrochemical Corp. announced the promotions of Eddie Mok to Asia Pacific director of OEM marketing and technology, and Leena Gulia to senior OEM marketing engineer. Mok's new responsibilities will focus on ...
Hittite Microwave Corp.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Hittite Microwave Corp. announced the promotion of Thomas Hwang to director of sales. Working from ...
TECOM Industries Inc.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... TECOM Industries Inc. announced it has appointed Magdy Michael as senior marketing manager. In his new role, Michael will be responsible for capturing new commercial and government business opportunities in order to ...
Lenthor Engineering.(Personnel)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Lenthor Engineering announced the hiring of John Wiltshire as Mil-Spec program manager. Wiltshire will oversee the company's Mil-Spec qualification process and its entry ...
Valpey-Fisher Corp.(Rep Appointments)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Valpey-Fisher Corp. announced the addition of SM Electronic Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, to the company's ...
Z-Communications Inc.(Rep Appointments)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Z-Communications Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with Richardson Electronics. Under the terms of the agreement, Richardson will operate as ...
International Manufacturing Services Inc.(Rep Appointments)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... International Manufacturing Services Inc. announced the appointment of DM Associates Inc. as the ...
Elgar Electronics Corp.(Rep Appointments)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Elgar Electronics Corp. has selected Keithley Instruments Inc. as a distributor of its programmable AC and DC power supplies marketed under the brand names of ...
Boonton Electronics.(Web Site)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2004 ... The Boonton Electronics Web site (www.boonton.com) features a modern new look, user-friendly navigation system and an application-focused approach. Users can now go to the site and look for important information based upon a specific application for ...
Averaging correlation for fast GPS satellite signal acquisition in multipath Rayleigh fading channels.(Technical Feature)(Global Positioning System)
Aug 01, 2004; ... In this article, a fast GPS satellite signal acquisition, based on an averaging-correlation algorithm, is proposed for frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels. In the Global Positioning System (GPS), receivers spend a long time acquiring the signals. This is mostly due to ...
Making of a robust indoor microwave wireless link: a novel scheme of polarization-sense diversity.(Technical Feature)
Aug 01, 2004; ... This article describes a novel scheme of deploying "polarization-sense" diversity in indoor microwave wireless links. Unlike the traditional polarization diversity scheme where two orthogonally polarized (vertical and horizontal) antennas are used, this method deploys a pair of right- and ...
IMS 2004 in Cowboy Country.
Aug 01, 2004; ... Texas hospitality was definitely in abundance as the participants descended on Fort Worth for IMS 2004. Hot, humid weather and more rain than was comfortable did not dampen the enthusiasm or diminish the attendance at the MTT-S International Microwave Symposium held June 6 to 11. Overall ...
An algorithm that accelerates harmonic balance analysis of RFICs.(Cover Feature)(Cover Story)
Aug 01, 2004 ... For mobile phones, WLAN and other wireless applications, RF engineers need to perform sophisticated IC designs under strict time-to-market constraints. To make this possible, with as few prototyping cycles as possible, RFIC design tools must incorporate efficient methods for analyzing ...
New physical connectivity engine for native high frequency interconnect verification.(Product Feature)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Microwave engineers have been forced to verify the validity of their high frequency design interconnects either by manual inspection or by using layout versus schematic tools designed for analog/digital design. Such tools, which are well established for low frequency design, tend to be ...
"Satellite on a stick" for path link simulation.(Product Feature)
Aug 01, 2004 ... Creating the complete transmission path of a satellite in training, development, troubleshooting, or system set-up applications requires three components: two earth terminals and a spacecraft. While terminals are generally accessible, satellite accessibility is more problematic, requiring ...
Attenuation solution for TDMA-to-GSM BTS upgrades.(Product Feature)
Aug 01, 2004 ... When implementing the evolution of TDMA wireless networks to GSM/GPRS and then W-CDMA, service providers "overlay" GSM/GPRS by integrating a new base transceiver station (BTS) with the existing TDMA BTS. Carrier signals from the new BTS are fed through the TDMA transmit chain to the ...
EDA software release.(Software Update)
Aug 01, 2004 ... This Advanced Design System (ADS) 2004A is a recent version of the high frequency electronic design automation (EDA) software that offers significant improved ease-of-use and productivity for common circuit-design tasks. ADS 2004A offers a complete, front-to-back high frequency design, ...
24-hour calibration wizard.(Software Update)
Aug 01, 2004 ... This Web site enables users to request any calibration, repair or both 24-hours a day and instantly receive a return material authorization (RMA) number on-line. The calibration wizard is easily accessed by clicking on the bottom right of the homepage or simply by going to ...