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Digging through IMS 2025’s technical sessions unearthed some insights into the microwave industry’s research inclinations, which in turn provide a look into the future.
These compact devices and modules become final additions for RF radios handling voice, data, and video over a wide range of frequencies and bandwidths.
Adding RF/mmWave communications capabilities to overall system designs has become much easier and cost-effective with modular functional blocks in SiPs, SoCs, and SoMs.
There’s no underestimating the importance of filtering in RF system design. This report contains the latest innovations in the art of RF filtering and spectrum management.
Designers of aerospace and defense electronic systems look to more efficient RFICs and MMICs with increased functionality to achieve solutions with ever-smaller SWaP.
The virtual International Microwave Symposium will remain available for visitors through the end of next month, although the active components of the event have gone by. Here ...
Macom Technology Solutions introduced the new power amplifier at the virtual IMS trade conference, which runs from Tuesday, August 4, to Thursday, August 6.
As semiconductor developers have shown at the 2019 IEEE IMS, 5G infrastructure is well on its way around the world—and the U.S. has quite a bit of catching up to do.
This extremely broadband amplifier features high gain and low noise in chip and packaged forms, with a simple biasing scheme and integrated power detector for ease of use.
Frequency spectrum in the mmWave range offers limited propagation distances but almost unlimited bandwidth for the continuing expansion of wireless communications systems and ...
During a time when defense electronics technology is strong, the industry readies itself for the global adoption of 5G and electronically steered vehicles.
The characteristics of different substrates and device architectures make it possible to reach many speeds and frequencies with modern semiconductor devices and their packages...
A low-noise amplifier, single-pole/double-throw switch, power detectors, and comb generators are the most recent in a string of product intros from MACOM that target RF applications...
Suppliers of these devices are all in, not only targeting applications like wireless communications and radar systems, but also the emerging RF energy arena.
As the applications extrapolate for wireless devices and interest grows in millimeter-wave frequencies, the RF/microwave industry gathers together with great optimism for the ...
Technology Editor Chris De Martino talks with Dr. Klaus Werner of the RF Energy Alliance about the current climate surrounding the world of RF solid-state energy.
If the mark of critical technology is that companies are willing to sue to protect it, and governments are blocking other countries from buying it, then gallium nitride will only...
GaN has emerged as the leading semiconductor material for high-power microwave switches and amplifiers, although GaAs is still the material of choice for low noise.
Higher power densities and frequencies are pushing packages to their limits, while emerging wireless applications such as IoT and 5G crave lower-cost housings.
A large portion of a small industry is set to show its hardware, software, and test equipment at this year’s IMS exhibition in San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Gallium nitride is exerting its strength in myriad communications applications, and suppliers are trying to keep pace by developing solutions for next-generation systems.
Discrete transistors require more extensive design efforts than integrated circuits—albeit with much greater flexibility for realizing an amplifier or other component with special...
GaAs Labs, an investment firm based in Silicon Valley that has turned its eyes toward RF semiconductors, has agreed to purchase Anadigics and its GaA production facility for approximate...
Silicon devices still provide generous power levels through about 2 GHz, while GaN discrete transistors are filling many higher-frequency requirements for high output power.
The performance of RF/microwave systems depends on the performance of the diodes that are incorporated into the system. These devices are available in many shapes and sizes, providing...
Many methods are available for translating frequencies higher or lower in many forms, including monolithic and discrete components and integrated assemblies with additional functions...
This compact bias controller and sequencer module can be used to power GaN and GaAs power devices for testing without making mistakes of applying the wrong voltage first.
The exhibition area is open for slightly less than three days, and visitors can easily spend all of their time just scouring the sections of the show floor and the companies devoted...
These miniature passive and active mixers provide broad frequency coverage with low distortion and low noise using low-level signals across wide frequency bands.
This year’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS) had a full schedule of technical presentations, as well as a healthy number of new product introductions at ever-higher frequencies...
By providing a global gathering for all microwave technologists, the IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS) again promises to be the gem of Microwave Week.
MACOM has acquired the majority share of Mindspeed Technologies to diversify its product offering and gain traction in the high-performance-analog market.
A series of 15-minute at-booth presentations will provide updates on high-frequency semiconductors, including current performance levels possible from GaN power transistors.
Model XX1010-QT is a GaAs monolithic-microwave-integrated-circuit (MMIC) frequency doubler from M/A-COM Technology Solutions that is well suited for satellite-communications (...
IMS 2012, Day 3: A Sea of Semiconductor Vendors Plumbing as a metaphor for microwaves Lou Frenzel summarizes some of what he saw and heard from the many semiconductor vendors ...
Efforts to make a wide array of military and commercial radar systems smaller, lighter, and less expensive depend largely on increased digital processing and higher levels of ...
Microwave Weeks IMS conference and associated events comprise an event unlike any other in the electronics industry, giving members of the indu try a chance to catch up with products...
Discrete power transistors support RF and microwave large-signal applications with a variety of technologies, ranging from older silicon semiconductors to mixes of materials using...
Oscillators are following a trend of smaller packages and lower power consumption while also delivering enhanced spectral purity and leveraging a number of different technologies...
Components provided excellent performance 50 years ago. But they have improved electrically along the way, taking advantage of material and manufacturing advances to shave costs...
Parts obsolescence is a real issue in high-reliability electronics like aerospace and defense systems. According to an April 2008 article in IEEE Spectrum, Uncle Sam spends $10...
Over 600 exhibitors made the trip to the Baltimore Convention Center for this years IMS, bringing news of software, hardware, test equipment, and even company acquisitions.
The IMS has traditionally served as a midpoint of each year for many microwave companies, not only to swap notes on markets and opportunities but to assess the development of ...
Advances at all levels, from devices and components to subsystems and test equipment, have characterized a year of impressive new-product developments for the industry.
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (M/A-COM Tech) and Mimix Broadband have moved a step closer to finalizing their merger. The companies jointly announced that their respective...
High-power RF and microwave signal levels are produced by both vacuum tubes and transistors in military systems, with demands for ever-increasing efficiency and smaller size.
Every year, a large number of microwave innovators and companies share their product news and technical developments at European Microwave Week and the Association of Old Crows...
Electronic technologies can provide a tactical edge in critical military systems, such as communications, electronic countermeasures, electronic-warfare (EW), and radar systems...
As commercial and military solid-state amplifier designers strive for higher power levels from their assemblies, device developers are being asked for more power per RF/microwave...
Millimeter-wave frequencies, traditionally reserved for government and military uses, are being explored for a variety of commercial short-range wireless networking applications...
THROUGH AN AGREEMENT WITH M/A-COM, Cobham plc will purchase M/A-COM's radio-frequency components and subsystems businessone of the largest original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs...
Amplifiers for RF and microwave use are available in a range of packaged and unpackaged varieties to suit low-noise and power requirements through millimeter-wave frequencies....
Microwave and RF filters continue to provide invaluable signal-processing functions in receivers and transmitters, with trends toward smaller packages and higher power levels....
Specifiers of RF and microwave coaxial cables and connectors will find a wide range of products to meet their needs, with broadband coverage extending through 110 GHz.
As demands on system performance increase, cables, connectors, and cable assemblies are using new materials and techniques to increase accuracy, repeatability, and flexibility...
The worlds largest microwave gathering convenes in San Francisco this June with a rich array of technical presentations, new products, and the 67th ARFTG Conference.
