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The International Microwave Symposium is the headline conference of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). The show took place from June 17th to the 19th of June in Atlanta, GA. This electronic show daily is a wrap-up of just some of the device highlights from the event.
Notable Products:
Microphase Corporation's C52 Series diplexers and RF integrated assemblies meet Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA®) standards. The devices have signal distribution for triple play (voice, data, and video), an impedance of 75 Ω
, and a frequency range from 5 to 1525 MHz, depending on model. The series is appropriate for network interface devices (NIDs) for IP television (IPTV), video over the phone network (Telco TV), and cable TV applications as well as set-top boxes, gateways, and optical network terminals. www.microphase.com
Tyco Electronics' MAAP-008516 2.4 to 2.5-GHz linear power amplifier can achieve 16.5 dBm linear output power (OFDM, QAM-64, 54 mbps) with EVM
3.0 percent and 80 mA of current in 802.11g applications. In 802.11b applications, the RoHS-compliant device generates 21.5 dBm of linear output power and consumes 95 mA of current. The PQFN plastic-packaged amplifier measures 2.0 X 2.5 mm and a typical linear gain of 30 dB at an operating voltage of 3.3 V. The device has an integrated power detector and a separate power mode pin. www.tycoelectronics.com
 Avago Technologies' AFEM-9601 RF 802.11 a/b/g/n front end module operating in the 2.4 and 4.9 to 5.9 GHz frequency bands is optimized for MIMO (multiple-in, multiple out) applications for transferring large data files over wireless networks. The WLAN-standardized device delivers over 17 dBm in 3-V applications. The 4.0 X 6.0 X 1.5-mm module combines dual linear power amplifiers, dual low noise amplifiers, dual Tx/Rx switches, diplexer, Tx/Rx filtering and direct CMOS compatible control and detect. The device uses an LTCC substrate and GaAs EpHEMT technology. www.avagotech.com
 AWR's Microwave Office
Version 2008 design environment provides a user interface where features such as project, elements, layout tabs, and the status window are fully dockable and floatable. The software includes improvements to the EM Socket that are compatible with ACE™ AXIEM™ and third-party EM tools as well as an interface to the ICED IC and Mentor Graphics' Calibre® solutions. The environment has APLAC®
harmonic balance, optional time-domain simulators, support for parameterized subcircuit layouts, and new plotting capabilities. www.awrcorp.com
 CEL's Freestar Pro ARM-based ZigBee radio module is well suited for transceiver solutions, such as mesh, point-to-point, and point-to-multipoint networks as well as battery-powered designs. The 32-bit device has on-chip memory, integrated antenna, 20 dBm output power and a range over 4,000 feet. The FCC-, IC-, and CE-certified module measures 23 X 31 mm and supports Freescale BeeStack™ software. The device comes with FreeStar Pro Evaluation Kits that have evaluation software and a GUI interface. www.cel.com
 Freescale Semiconductor's very high-voltage (VHV6) 50-V LDMOS RF power transistor line-up including the MRF6V14300H final stage device and the MRF6V10010N driver are well-suited for L-Band radar applications such as air traffic management and long range weather radar. The RoHS-compliant MRF6V14300H produces a frequency range from 1200 and 1400 MHz, 330 W peak output power, 300-μ/sec pulse width, 12 percent duty cycle, 17 dB gain, and 60 percent drain efficiency. The MRF6V10010N delivers 8 W peak output power, 300-μ/sec pulse width, 12 percent duty cycle, 22 dB gain, and 60 percent drain efficiency. The
0.12°-C/WqJC devices incorporate electrostatic-discharge (ESD) protection and a gate voltage swing capability of
6 and +10 V. www.freescale.com
 Keithley Instruments' SignalMeister™ 2.0 waveform creation software features an "object-oriented" graphical user interface (GUI) and a click-and-drag objects-based approach optimized for MIMO signals. The RF development tool tests all aspects of WiMAX communications equipment from 400 MHz to 4 GHz and 6 GHz (if WLAN measurements are needed). The program includes built-in libraries for W-CDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA, cdmaOne, cdma2000, and 1xEV-DV mobile communications signals as well as 802.11 a/b/g/j/n WLAN and 802.16e-2005 mobile WiMAX wireless connectivity signals. The software comes with WiMAX Wave 2, which offers a choice of FFT sizes between 128 and 1048 and allows creation of signal up to a bandwidth of 28 MHz. The development tool supports Keithley's Series 2900 RF vector signal generator/analyzer, which features software-defined radio (SDR) architecture. The program is in accordance with WiMAX and WLAN wireless connectivity standards as well as 3GPP and 3GPP2 cellular standards. www.keithley.com
 Mini-Circuits’ PWR-6G+ USB power sensor offers a 50 dB dynamic range,
-30 to +20 dBm, that is used with a PC via USB interface. The power sensor does not require any reference signal calibration and has 1.1:1 typical VSWR. Additional features include easy installation and operation, temperature compensated, fully-loaded software for power data analysis, multi-sensor support software, and the device does not require an external power supply. Typical applications are lab test equipment, portable test capability and remote location testing. www.minicircuits.com
 Peregrine Semiconductor's PE42552 SPDT 50- RF switch maintains broadband RF performance from 9 kHz up to 7.50 GHz. The 16-lead QFN-packaged device exhibits isolation of 47 dB (3.0 GHz) and approaching 30 dB at 7.50 GHz, ESD tolerance of 1 kV HBM on all ports, and IIP3 of +65 dBm. The RoHS-compliant switch features a CMOS control logic-select pin and HaRP-enhanced UltraCMOS silicon-on-sapphire process technology. The device measures 3.00 X 3.00
X 0.75 mm and is appropriate for test equipment applications such as automated test equipment (ATE), RF/IF transceiver signal switching, filter bank switching, and discrete DSA stages. www.psemi.com
 TriQuint Semiconductor's gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors operate at up to 18 GHz and produce up to 90 W of output power. The devices boast a power added efficiency (PAE) of 55 percent and up to 2.5 times the power density of high voltage gallium arsenide devices in its class. The transistors are well-suited for applications such as mobile base station, defense, and space communications systems. www.tqs.com
 Crystek Corporation's CVS575S-500 500 MHz voltage-controlled surface acoustic wave (SAW) oscillator or VCSO includes sinewave output and a phase noise level of
135 dBc/Hz at 10 KHz offset. The SMT-packaged device has a -14 dBc typical second harmonic and operates in a temperature range from -20°C to 70°
C from a 3.3-V power supply. The RoHS-compliant oscillator or VCSO is appropriate for applications including frequency translation, test and measurement, avionics, point-to-point radios, and multi-point radios.
www.crystek.com
NXP launched the BLC7G22L(S)-130 base station power transistor featuring NXP’s Gen7 LDMOS technology
optimized for high power use and Doherty amplifier applications. The seventh generation Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) technology increases power density by 20% and improves power efficiency by 2%, while reducing the thermal resistance Rth by over 25% compared to the previous generation. The Gen7 LDMOS delivers record performance up to 3.8 GHz, and offers 25% lower output capacitance, enabling wideband output matching and leading to simplified, better performing Doherty amplifier designs.
www.rfpower.nl/cdrom
National Instruments announces the NI GPS Toolkit for LabVIEW, an extension of the graphical system design environment that expands the NI RF PXI platform to include multi-satellite GPS signal simulation. Using NI LabVIEW software to create waveforms that simulate up to 12 satellites (C/A codes in the L1 band), engineers can test receiver characteristics such as sensitivity, time to first fix (TTFF) and position accuracy with the NI PXIe-5672 RF vector signal generator. With the new toolkit, engineers can use a combination of simulated and recorded GPS waveforms as a comprehensive, low-cost solution for receiver design validation and verification. sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/204980
Nitronex launched at the show an initiative to educate the industry regarding the use of GaN-on-Si technology. The company’s new GaN Essentials™
education center provides visitors with a better understanding of how to evaluate performance of, and design with, GaN in RF power applications. GaN Essentials is a collection of application notes targeted toward designers who want to take advantage of GaN devices while avoiding many common implementation pitfalls of this new technology.
www.nitronex.com/ganessentials.html
Jazz Semiconductor’s Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS SBC18 platform targets analog ICs in a 0.18 micron CMOS offering. The SBC18 comes in a Vertical PNP module that can be paired with SiGE NPN or SiGE bipolar transistors. The device offers up to 200 GHz SiGe and uses current mode logic.
www.jazzsemi.com
Computer Simulation Technology (CST) has made available the next generation of electromagnetic simulation software, CST Studio Suite™
2009. Design engineers use CST Studio Suite products to solve electromagnetic problems, utilizing the most appropriate solver technology, sophisticated import filters and automated optimization and parametric studies. User will experience numerous enhancements with the new version, including transient EM/circuit co-simulation using the recently acquired Linmic circuit simulation technology, MP1 based parallelization for the fast solution to large problems on clusters, and the porting of the user interface to 64-bit in order to handle the increasing complexity of imported models.
www.cst.com
 Lady Bug Technologies LLC introduces the LB589A, an easy to use, high performance, general purpose power meter and power sensor in one. It features high speed measurements and temperature compensated accuracy with impressive in class performance. The standard product can measure signals below -55 dBm. Get up and running quickly with the supplied power meter panels. Use the supplied drivers and programming examples for ATE applications. Easily integrate the power sensors into LabView, C, VB and other programming environments.
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