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Precision Oscillators
Lemos International (Barrington, RI) offers a full range of RFX precision SC cut oscillators. RFX (Livingston, Scotland) designs and manufactures standard and customized high frequency precision OCXO, TCXO, VCXO, and PLL...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Integrated Circuit
CML Microcircuits (Winston-Salem, NC) has released the CMX971 quadrature modulator integrated circuit, one of the company’s RF Building Blocks. The RF Building Block range is designed to provide high-performance ICs...
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RF Connectors
Bomar Interconnect Products (Ledgewood, NJ) offers the vertical or horizontal mount BNC E-Snap™ RF connectors. Developed for employment with PCMICA cards in wireless applications, the connectors are part of the 50-ohm E-Snap...
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Vector Signal Generators
The MG3710A series of vector signal generators from Anritsu (Richardson, TX) generates test signals based on all leading technologies, including LTE, LTE Advanced, W-CDMA/HSPA, CDMA2000, GSM and PDC, as well as WLAN,...
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RF Power Transistor
Nitronex (Durham, NC) offers the XPT1015 28V, DC-3.0 GHz, 40W power transistor with 17.5 dB small-signal gain, and 65% peak drain efficiency at 2 GHz. The thermal resistance of the transistor is 1.9 °C/W. It is designed for...
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Radio Transmitter IC
Hittite Microwave Corp. (Chelmsford, MA) has released the HMC6000/6001 silicon transceiver chipset for 60-GHz applications such as WiGig (IEEE 802.11ad) multi-Gbps solutions including wireless cable replacement, wireless...
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EMI Receiver
Teseq (Edison, NJ) offers the PMM 9010F EMI receiver for conducted and radiated emissions testing. The EMI/EMC measurement receiver uses Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) analysis to reduce test time and improve accuracy. These...
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RF Analyzers
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) announced enhanced FieldFox RF analyzers with options for time-domain analysis and channel-power measurements. With the timedomain analysis option, engineers can determine the individual...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Recorder
Averna (Montreal, QE, Canada) offers the RP- 5300, a field-ready, multi-channel RF recorder for RF applications covering 330 MHz to 2.5 GHz. It is suitable for both field testing and performance testing. With 50 MHz of recording...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Transceiver Module
The NT Series RF transceiver module from Linx Technologies (Merlin, OR) enables users to send and receive digital data in the 902 to 928 MHz band. Its True Transparency™ interface lets the user create a wireless wire for...
Articles Aerospace
UAV Applications Challenge the Limits of Embedded Computing Technologies
Unmanned Vehicles (UAV/UAS) have proven to be vital, strategic new weapons in the military’s arsenal by providing needed critical intelligence, surveillance and...
Articles Aerospace
Testing Ethernet Based Avionics in Aircraft
Since the 1970’s, military aircraft avionics systems have communicated via the MIL-STD-1553 bus. This has proven to be a very effective method, and is still in widespread use today. MIL-STD-1553 is...
Articles Aerospace
New Honing Technology Improves Aerospace Accuracy
Invented more than 70 years ago to de-glaze cylinder bores in early automobile engines, conventional honing today is meeting the most advanced aerospace requirements for ultra-precise machined...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Radar, Electronic Warfare, and Electronic Intelligence Testing: Identifying Common Test Challenges
Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) systems, as they were originally called, have blossomed into a wide array of indispensible equipment for...
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Embedded Graphics Processor
Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA), a designer of communications and avionics systems for the aerospace and defense industries, has selected the AMD Radeon™ E2400 embedded graphics processor for inclusion in its...
Application Briefs Software
SWORD Simulation Software
MASA Group, a developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, public safety, emergency management, and serious games markets, has launched SWORD 5.0, the...
Application Briefs Defense
Telescoping Poles
U.S. Army and Marine troops have cultivated a creative, lifesaving technology out of heavy-duty telescoping poles. The CMD fiberglass telescoping push/pull rods, normally used for cable and wire management applications, are...
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Rugged Processors and Ethernet Switches
GE (Towcester, UK) will be supplying General Dynamics UK with subsystems required for the Demonstration Phase of the Scout Specialist Vehicle family of platforms being designed for the British Army. The...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Creating a Phased Array Radar for Avalanche Imaging
Avalanches pose a significant threat to human life and settlements, so studying them is key to formulating risk zones. Previously, validating models in order to predict avalanche behavior was...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Wheel Force Transducer for Field Testing
This project endeavors to develop, validate, and calibrate cost-effective field test equipment for measuring tire characteristics on vehicles while driving off-road. The four wheel force transducers are...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Thermal Mechanical Fatigue Crack Growth Testing
Turbines in aircraft turbojet engines are being subject to increasingly higher temperatures to improve fuel efficiency. High turbine efficiency requires the ability of turbine blades to withstand...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Evaluation of Three Extremity Armor Systems
The US Marine Corps and the US Army have been engaged in efforts to evaluate improved body armor, including armor to protect the extremities. These efforts are focused on both body armor performance...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Low-Power Distributed Jammer Network
The Distributed Jammer Network (DJN) is composed of a large number of tiny, low-power jammers, which are distributed inside a target network and emit radio energy to disrupt its communications. Recent...
Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Fundamentals of Metamaterials for High-Power RF Applications
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in the physics and applications of metamaterials. Briefly, metamaterials consist of a periodic array of subwavelength structures that...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermal Analysis and Microhardness Mapping in Hybrid Laser Welds in a Structural Steel
The concept of combining a laser welding system with a conventional arc welding system (GTAW) was first proposed in order to improve the stability of the laser welding system and to allow greater flexibility in part fit-up. Prior research stated that using a YAG...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Encapsulated Ball Bearings for Rotary Micro Machines
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-fabricated silicon rotary elements for micro-motors, micro-generators, and micro-turbomachinery have received growing attention with applications in...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Module
RF Micro Devices (Greensboro, NC) has released the RFFM6201, a 2.4-GHz band single-chip Zigbee® front-end module (FEM) featuring an integrated power amplifier, low-noise amplifier, and diversity switch. It delivers current...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Cable Connectors
Times Microwave Systems (Wallingford, CT) offers the EZ-400-BM BNC no-solder male (plug) straight connector, and the EX-400-BM-RA BNC no-solder male (plug) right-angle connector for LMR-400 low-loss coaxial cable. The...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Switch
California Eastern Laboratories (Santa Clara, CA) has released the uPG2430T6Z, a compact SP3T switch for applications up to 6 GHz. The switch is used for single- or dualband 802.11a,b,g,n Wi-Fi/WLAN + Bluetooth, cordless phones, mobile...
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