Product Snapshot: Anaren's Xinger
A new Xinger has been added to Anaren's (East Syracuse, NY) comprehensive line of compact signal-processing components. The new 3-dB hybrid coupler operates from 800 to 1000 MHz and is designed for close matching of the coefficient of thermal ...
Company Applies Innovation To Tube Revival
Just when it appeared that vacuum electronics might be left behind in the wake of solid-state technologies, a talented team of engineers and researchers at Innosys, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) have applied the microfabrication techniques commonly ...
Product Snapshot: WaveRunner 6000 Series Of DSOs
The WaveRunner 6000 series of general-purpose digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs) from LeCroy Corp. (Chestnut Ridge, NY) combine high performance and signal-processing power in cost-effective instruments. Available in models operating from 350 MHz ...
Waveform Digitizer Fits On PCI Card
Cost-effective precision sampling is the strength of the ATS850 a dual-channel waveform digitizer from Alazar Technologies, Inc. (Lachine, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) built on a standard PCI bus card. With a 25-MHz real-time bandwidth and 50 ...
Product Snapshot: Fairchild's RMPA0965 PA IC
The Fairchild RF Division of Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (Andover, MA) has launched its first product since acquiring the RF Components Division of Raytheon Co. The new RMPA0965 is a +3-VDC packaged power amplifier integrated circuit (IC) for use ...
Top Products Of 2003
This diversified collection of hardware, software, and test equipment represents some of last years best creations using existing and cutting-edge technologies.
DSOs Track Elusive High-Speed Waveforms
The latest generation of digital oscilloscopes offers lightning-fast sampling rates and sophisticated timing and display systems to analyze hard-to-capture electronic events.
New High-Performance, Low-Power ADC
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has just announced a new 14-bit, 125-MSPS (mega samples per second) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The very high sampling rate allows increased system capabilities in advanced communications, test and measurement, ...
DOD Outlines Standards-Based RFID And UID Initiative
Intermec Technologies Corp., a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies and global supply chain automatic data collection systems, has announced the availability of RFID products and services that comply with the requirements for ...
Most Consumers Don't Recycle Used Phones
A recent wireless survey conducted by Wireless Week found that 61.7 percent of consumers stash their used wireless phones into a drawer. But there is a better place for unneeded phones. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) is ...
Embedded 2.4-GHz ISM Transceiver Now Available
Ever shrinking time-to-market demands have increased the importance of both reference designs and off-the-shelf components. For example, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) recently announced the addition of a 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) RF ...