Jun 1, 2007,
By Eric Starkloff and Kevin Bisking
Advances in technology have enabled configurable synthetic instruments that rival dedicated test equipment in performance, while providing a greater range of capabilities for challenging test requirements, such as those for software-defined radios....
Jun 1, 2007
Hynix Semiconductor, a memory semiconductor supplier offering dynamic random access memory chips (DRAMs) and flash memory chips, has entered into a strategic...
Jun 1, 2007,
By Christopher Burns
The Doherty amplifier architecture has come a long way in the 70 years since it was conceived and has the potential to deliver the efficiency demanded by today's base station transmitters as well as those serving future generations of wireless networks. The Doherty amplifier described in this article is one of many designed at Freescale, which has been refining the basic Doherty concept....
Jun 1, 2007
Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Microelectronics of America, and Jazz Semiconductor, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jazz Technologies, have announced that the two...
Jun 1, 2007
New products from the June 2007 issue of Defense Electronics....
Jun 1, 2007
A team from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) led by Mike Willis, principal research engineer, has been awarded U.S. patent 7,113,229 jointly...
Jun 1, 2007
SCHOTT's floating display technology is intended for display applications to the North American defense industry. The technology uses glass fibers to make the images on LCD and OLED displays appear as if they are on top of the faceplate covering them, making them easier to read for soldiers in the field....
Jun 1, 2007,
Mark Valentine, Technical Editor
Many times when a branch of the armed forces considers a new weapons system, one of the key aspects to be evaluated is how effectively the potential addition will integrate with existing arsenal....
Jun 1, 2007
Alan V. Oppenheim and Russell Keith Raney received IEEE awards in a June 16 ceremony in Philadelphia. Oppenheim received the IEEE 2007 Jack S. Kilby Signal...
Jun 1, 2007
Micro-miniature connectors A micro-miniature connector family from Hypertronics, the HyperGrid series, targets high-reliability connections in high-density...
Jun 1, 2007,
By Dick Walvis and Sireesha Mallipeddi
Four different methodologies are used for testing MIMO WLAN chipsets and products. Each methodology has its advantages and disadvantages, which are discussed in this article....
Jun 1, 2007
Gowanda Electronics, a manufacturer of high-performance electronic inductor components for RF and power applications, is registered as conforming to AS9100...
Jun 1, 2007
Lockheed Martin has opened its Biometric Experimentation and Advanced Concepts (BEACON) center in White Hall, W.V. The 6000-square-foot facility will...
Jun 1, 2007,
By Mike Hertz
Identifying frequency stability problems within a phase-locked loop design can be greatly simplified when using an automated method. When an oscilloscope detects the period of a waveform cycle, this value can be directly inverted to compute the instantaneous frequency of the specific waveform cycle. ...
Jun 1, 2007
Consumer Electronics Hands-free communications system Zarlink Semiconductor's range of tools that simplify the design of hands-free communication systems...