TWTA Eases Automotive EMC Testing

March 4, 2004
Automotive electronic systems must be rugged designed not only to withstand wide temperature extremes, but also to handle the high field strengths emitted by speed radar pulses. To test automotive electronics, Amplifier Research (Souderton, PA) ...

Automotive electronic systems must be rugged designed not only to withstand wide temperature extremes, but also to handle the high field strengths emitted by speed radar pulses. To test automotive electronics, Amplifier Research (Souderton, PA) developed a dual-band traveling-wave-tube amplifier (TWTA) capable of generating the pulsed output-power requirements according to both Ford and General Motors' specifications. The tube amplifier (model 1000TP1G3), which can deliver 600-V/m pulses in two discrete bands of 1.15 to 1.45 GHz and 2.7 to 3.1 GHz, replaces two separate tube amplifiers with output power levels of 1000 and 500 W, respectively, in the two frequency bands.

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

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