Author - Dawn Hightower

Home Product Directory Topics Note Pad Video Back Issues RF Blogs Military Electronics Subscribe News Design Features Web Seminars PartFinder Whitepapers Microwave Legends Newsletter EuMW 2007 WebConnect RF Design

RSS

PART SEARCH :

Sponsored Links

Dawn Hightower	Write for Microwaves & RF

30 results found for Dawn Hightower, displaying items 1 - 20

--> May 2008 [Devices & ICs]
IDS Microchip Revolutionizes RFID Labeling/Tracking
WOLLERAU, SWITZERLAND—A radio-frequencyidentification (RFID) chip is promising to make it practical for companies to automatically track, monitor, time-stamp, and record information about goods in any supply-chain or cold-chain transport on land, sea, or sky. Such goods may range from expensive fragile components, medical goods, and pharmaceuticals to bags of bananas . This innovation in affordable, automatic data-logging RFID applications hails from IDS Microchip...

May 2008 [Communications]
American Radio Relay League Petitions Federal Communications Commission
The American Radio Relay League, Inc., has petitioned on behalf of licensed amateur radio operators for the review of two orders of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promulgating a rule to regulate the use of the radio spectrum by Access Broadband over Power Line (Access BPL) operators. The FCC concluded that existing safeguards combined with new protective measures required by the rule will prevent harmful interference to licensees from Access BPL radio...

May 2008 [Commercial]
Mobile-Device Market Exceeds Expectations In First Quarter
LONDON, ENGLAND—According to ABI Research, operators and distributors continued to top up their inventories in the first quarter of this year after a strong fourth quarter of 2007. “Year on year, 1Q 2008 was up 13.7 percent. But 2Q 2008 is likely to be softer than in previous years,” said ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders. Shipment volumes in the developed markets have softened slightly due to the credit crisis. Yet emerging markets like Asia-Pacific,...

May 2008 [Industry News]
Kudos
WOBURN, MA—Skyworks Solutions, Inc. congratulated Samsung on winning two FEMTO cell awards. Jang Young Shil, which is presented by the Maeil Business Newspaper—an economic daily in Korea—and the Korea Industrial Technology Association (KOITA)—operated by the Korean government—is granted based on technological importance, originality, and economic value. In addition, Samsung was awarded the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Best of Innovations 2008 in the...

May 2008 [Conferences]
IMS Displays Microwave Advances In Atlanta
MICROWAVE WEEK has become a true meeting place for members of the highfrequency industry. Part continuing education, part product showcase, and part social networking, this week-long series of events is scheduled for the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA from June 15-20, 2008. Organized by members of the IEEE’s Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S), it includes the 2008 International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the 2008 radio-frequency-integrated-circuit...

May 2008 [Industry News]
STMicroelectronics And NXP Merge Businesses
NXP (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) and STMicroelectronics have agreed to combine key wireless operations to form a joint-venture company with strong relationships with all major handset manufacturers. The new company will have the scale to better meet customer needs in 2G, 2.5G, 3G, multimedia, connectivity, and all future wireless technologies. Specifically, the company will be well positioned for Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), the emerging 3G...

May 2008 [Industry News]
Company News
CONTRACTS Elcom Technologies—Received a contract for $1 million from a major US aerospace-defense military contractor for a VME-based synthesized RF source and synthesized broadband downconverter. Elcom was selected due to its ability to integrate a synthesizer and tuner in a VME package. This recurring contract will require support through 2009. Etihad Atheeb Telecommunication Company (Atheeb) and ...

May 2008 [Industry News]
People
Raytheon Recognizes Employees As Missile-Defense Pioneers MICHAEL T. BORKOWSKI, technical director, Raytheon RF Components, and DAVID G. LAIGHTON, former chief engineer, Raytheon RF Components received the Missile Defense Agency’s Technology Pioneer Award at the 6th Annual US Missile Defense Conference in Washington, D.C. Borkowski and Laighton were honored for the development of affordable and reliable X-band, solid-state,...

May 2008 [Education]
Educational Meetings
ICCE-Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems International Conferences & Exhibitions June 3-5 (Hong Kong, China) Internet: www.asmeconferences.org/MicroNano08 Emerging Telecom Market Forums: BRIC Opportunities June 5-6, 2008 • (Washington, D.C.) Freescale's Technology Forum (FTF) 2008 June...

April 2008 [Components]
European Consortium Increases Speed Limit Of Silicon-Based Transistor
PARIS, FRANCE—A European consortium, led by STMicroelectronics, held the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded project DOTFIVE and titled “Towards 0.5 TeraHertz Silicon/Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar technology (SiGe HBT).” The consortium is setting out to develop advanced silicon-based bipolar transistors with a maximum operating frequency of 0.5 THz or 500 GHz needed for future millimeter-wave and TeraHertz communication, radar, imaging, and sensing...

April 2008 [Industry News]
Kudos
LOS ANGELES, CA—Silvus Technologies received funding under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) MNM (Mobile Networked MIMO) program in 2007. The funding covers work on phase two and potentially phase three of the program for MIMO development. Silvus Technologies was chosen as the only performer on the program. The contract is valued up to $15.5 million for both phases. DARPA is looking to multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) radio technology,...

April 2008 [Communications]
WiMAX And LTE Fight For The US Broadband Mobile Market
MARAVEDIS, a research and analysis firm that focuses on BWA technologies including WiMAX, LTE, 802.20, Ultra Mobile Broadband, and Wireless Local Loop, has issued a report. The report focuses on opportunities and challenges for the broadband mobile market in the USA. It offers a comprehensive review of opportunities and challenges for BWA/WiMAX in the US. It also reveals important trends for the mobile broadband industry. Key findings of the report include: ...

April 2008 [Communications]
SUIRG Releases Findings Of Field Test Report On C-Band Sharing
PUNTA GORDA, FL—The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG), a non-profit association, announced the findings of a field test on the compatibility of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) and WiMAX services sharing the C-band spectrum. The test, conducted in late 2007, demonstrated that WiMax communications pose a significant interference threat to satellite signals transmitted in the C-band frequency. The purpose of the test was to validate previous tests...

April 2008 [Industry News]
Ansys Intends To Acquire Ansoft Corp.
ANSYS, INC. (SOUTHPOINTE, PA) and Ansoft Corp. have signed a definitive agreement whereby ANSYS will acquire Ansoft for approximately $832 million in a mix of cash and ANSYS common stock. The business combining of ANSYS and Ansoft will create a provider of simulation capabilities with combined trailing 12-month revenues of $485 million. When completed, ANSYS anticipates that the transaction will be modestly accretive to non-GAAP earnings per share in its...

April 2008 [Industry News]
Company News
CONTRACTS Lockheed Martin and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—Lockheed Martin has received a $5.7-million contract from DARPA to compete in Phase 1 development of its System F6 space technology and demonstration program. F6 is shorthand for “Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange.” The DARPA System F6 program intends to demonstrate that a...

April 2008 [People]
People
Pinto da Silva Becomes President of RFS Brazil ROBERTO PINTO DA SILVA, formerly vice president of sales for Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) Latin America, has replaced Luis Antonio Alves de Oliveira as president of RFS Brazil. Oliveira leaves RFS to pursue new endeavors outside the telecom industry. Pinto is a mechanical engineering university graduate with an MBA in executive team...

March [Communications]
Nujira And TTP Demonstrate High-Efficiency RF Power Amplifier
Cambridge, UK and Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain— Nujira has announced the successful demonstration of ultrahighefficiency RF power amplifier (PA) operation with DVB OFDM signals, supported by TTP and the Carbon Trust. “This demonstration shows that the power efficiency savings that Nujira has demonstrated with WCDMA and WiMAX can be achieved with even greater effect for OFDM-based mobile and digital TV standards at UHF, such as DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T and ...

March [Communications]
CSR Demonstrates Single-Chip Bluetooth+GPS Silicon
Cambridge, UK—CSR has successfully integrated GPS with cellular measurements to create eGPS (enhanced Global Positioning System) technology capable of providing accurate position information on demand in all environments. CSR’s location technologies are now confirmed to provide the significant power and performance improvements necessary for embedding into a mobile handset.CSR’s first single-chip GPS with embedded Bluetooth and FM radio technologies is back from...

March [Communications]
Kudos
Rochester, N.Y.—Harris Corporation is providing its JTRS-approved Falcon III AN/PRC-152 handheld radios to the U.S. Army to extend the communications capabilities of soldiers serving in mountainous and urban environments. The Army is installing Falcon III AN/PRC-152 radios in Shadow 200 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of a relay system to significantly extend the distance communication signals can travel. The radios provide critical aerial communication links...

March [Industry News]
Fox Electronics Acquires Jet City Electronics
Fox Electronics (Ft. Myers, Fl), a supplier of frequency-control solutions, recently announced its acquisition of Jet City Electronics, Inc. Jet City is a Seattle, Washington-based fabless-semiconductor design firm. This merger makes Fox one of only a handful of crystal-oscillator manufacturers in the high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal timing arena. The acquisition of a semiconductor company by a frequency-control company reveals an emerging trend toward...

prev. page [1] 2 next page