Crosstalk
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March 2010
An Interview With Dr. Lawrence Williams
NF: A lot of microwave engineers still prefer lab-based measurement techniques to simulation tools. What do you have to say to those folks? LW: Lab-based measurements have their place; simulations have their place. It’s not an either/or decision. Engineers will always perform both. Of course, I believe strongly in the value of simulation because of its flexibility and efficiency. Years ago, at...  — Nancy Friedrich

February 2010
An Interview With John Regazzi
NF: How has the test and measurement industry changed over the last 30 years? JR: When Giga-tronics was founded, the microwave test industry was much less mature than it is today. The microwave field was evolving rapidly with product advancements occurring on a regular basis. In 1980, a few milliwatts of power at 20 GHz were difficult to achieve and the best synthesizers could fetch up to $70,000...  — Nancy Friedrich

January 2010
An Interview With Jim McGillivary
NF: Software—especially EDA software—is increasingly playing a bigger role in test and measurement. How do you see that trend growing? JM: There’s currently a disaggregation of the design process as manufacturers focus on being a system integrator and trying to build software ecosystems. For example, handset designers have sockets and they want vendors to compete for those sockets. They need a...  — Nancy Friedrich

November 2009
An Interview With Bob Van Buskirk
MWRF: RFMD is widely recognized as a manufacturer of gallium-arsenide (GaAs) compound semiconductors. At this year’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Boston, MA, the company announced the availability of GaN foundry services. Why the move toward GaN? BV: Gallium nitride (GaN) is a revolutionary high-power compound-semiconductor technology that has been in development at RFMD for several years. GaN offers performance advantages not achievable with...  — Nancy Friedrich

September 2009
An Interview With Eric Strid
MRF: What is the current management structure at Cascade, with you stepping out of the CEO position? Strid: For a long time, I’ve wanted to switch back to a more technical role. We performed a classic and successful search for the right person to head up the company as CEO. Geoff Wild represents a wonderful combination of experience and complementary skill sets. I am just as busy as ever, but I sleep...  — Jack Browne

August 2009
An Interview With Vinod Chitkara
MRF: Narda manufactures products for the defense industry. What is your view of the defense market in 2009? Chitkara: The health of the defense industry is important to Narda, which had its best year ever in 2008 due in large measure to our sales of products for defense applications. The military is in the process of upgrading existing radar, electronic warfare (EW), countermeasure, and terrestrial and satellite-based...  — Jack Browne

March 2009
An Interview with Alexander Chenakin
Frequency synthesizers are among the most challenging of high-frequency designs. Many approaches have been developed to generate clean output signals, although techniques that achieve low noise often suffer from limited tuning speed. Dr. Chenakin’s design team at Phase Matrix is developing solutions to these design trade offs, and Microwaves & RF spoke recently with him to hear his thoughts on the current state of microwave frequency synthesis. ...  — Jack Browne

January 2009
An Interview With The Unknown Editor From Microwaves101.com
Whoever said that engineers are humorless never read the editorials on Microwaves101.com. In an industry where web sites often seem to be a company’s last priority, this site offers a regularly updated microwave encyclopedia of technical and historical information. It credits anonymous insiders for their “class participation” and rewards technical contributions with a pink pocketknife. Technical content on the site runs the gamut from basic microwave design theory, a...  — Nancy Friedrich

December 2008
Crosstalk With Joel Levine, President of RFMW
FIVE YEARS AGO, the US was still trying to recover from the stock-market dip after September 11, 2001. Consumer confidence was down. In fact, the situation was somewhat similar to where the economy is today—except that the current economy is in even worse shape because of the housing-bubble burst. Tough economic times do not have to translate into a lack of opportunity, however. In 2003, a company called RFMW was just being spawned. The distributor, which...  — Nancy Friedrich

August 2006
Crosstalk: An Interview with Microphase Corp.’s Necdet "Ned" Ergul
MRF: Why did you start the company? Ergul: In 1952, I joined Belco Research Laboratories in Newark, NJ in their filter group because I had always been interested in microwave electronics. I was a project leader charged with development of high-temperature, UHF, and microwave transmission-line filters. At that time, they had research contracts in-house for filter networks for the US Army and Navy operating in the frequency range of 400 MHz....  — Jack Browne

July 2006
Crosstalk: An Interview With Digital Fountain’s Charlie Oppenheimer
MRF: What attracted you to join this company? Oppenheimer: There are two things you look for in an entrepreneurial situation. One is a very big profit. Big markets are where big opportunities are made. The other is some distinguishing characteristics in the company. And this company had both of those in place. This technology can be used in some many different systems: cellular, Internet, defense communications. It is limitless. The technology at its core...  — Jack Browne

June 2006
Crosstalk: An Interview with Gavin Woods
MRF: What is the middle and long-term road map for LDMOS, from the perspective of technological achievement, such as power level, efficiency, and increasing frequency? Compare it to its compound semiconductor alternatives? Woods: Our roadmap for LDMOS is as always to improve intrinsic die performance in key areas such as efficiency and gain. We also are continuing to focus on cost-effective device packaging, which can be as important as...  — Jack Browne

February 2006
Crosstalk: An Interview With RF Micro Devices’ Jerry D. Neal
MRF: In December 1994, Microwaves & RF ran that well-known Alexander Graham Bell photograph on the front cover, modified to include engineers from QUALCOMM and RF Micro Devices to represent your budding relationship with that company. How did that relationship start? Jerry D. Neal: We started RF Micro Devices in 1991. One of our first design wins was with Nippon Denso in Southern California. They had asked us to design an HBT power amplifier....  — Jack Browne

October 2004
An Interview with iTerra’s Peter Walters
MRF: One of iTerra's key strengths appears to be expertise in microwave, digital, and optical technologies, and the ability integrate them. Was this your intention from the beginning? Walters: It was the combination...  — Barry Manz

June 2003
Crosstalk: An Interview with Sirenza's Robert Van Buskirk and Chuck Bland
Sirenza Microdevices (Sunnyvale, CA) acquired the assets of the Vari-L Co. (Denver, CO) on May 5, bringing together companies with different product lines but similar cultures. Integration of the two companies offers traditional manufacturing...  — Barry Manz