January 5, 2006 Newsletter

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Microwaves & RF UPDATE
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January 5, 2006
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Today's Table of Contents:
1. WiMAX: Bigger Than Cellular?
2. QUALCOMM Acquires Berkana Wireless 
3. Rogers Launches "Green" Materials Site
4. VCOs Boast Broadband Tuning 
5. GaAs FETs Drop To New Noise Lows 
6. Adapter Kit Supports 40-GHz Connections 
7. Combiner Handles 750 W CW at 1 GHz 
8. New Company Makes Noise
9. Happenings - Conferences 


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1.  Viewpoint 
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WiMAX: Bigger Than Cellular?

Commercial wireless equipment suppliers have slouched through 
several lean years of flat orders and uncertain opportunities after 
the boom years of the mid-to-late 1990's. But WiMAX threatens to 
change all that. Viewed by many as a wireless solution to the 
broadband "last mile" to the home and small office, WiMAX networks 
(IEEE 802.16 for fixed and portable and IEEE 802.20 for mobile) 
promise data rates over 100 Mb/s, opening wireless pipelines for 
dense data, video, and other "bit-intensive" applications.

This and future columns will examine the role of high-frequency 
engineering companies to bring WiMAX to the masses. Altera 
( http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2CB:49027F ), for example, has already 
developed over a dozen wireless reference designs using their 
field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) devices. Altera's Arun Iyengar, 
senior director of the company's wireless business unit, reinforced 
the company's interest particularly in the WiMAX infrastructure, as 
well as in WLAN and cellular systems. The firm's approach is simple: 
keep cost low, meet customers' performance requirements, and help 
speed the time to market with reference designs and partnerships 
that bring in supporting hardware and software around their 
solutions. 

JACK BROWNE
Technical Director


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2. News
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QUALCOMM Acquires Berkana Wireless

QUALCOMM (San Diego, CA), perhaps best known for their 3G CDMA 
telephones, has added fabless semiconductor company Berkana Wireless 
(Campbell, CA) to their stockpile of technology. Berkana Wireless, 
perhaps best known for their BKW9000 single-chip quad-band 
(GSM/GPRS/DCS/PCS) RF CMOS cellular transceivers, brings a wealth of 
expertise on multimode transceiver design to a company already 
strong in wireless analog and digital circuit design. Berkana 
Wireless was acquired for approximately $56 million in cash.
Berkana Wireless ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2BF:49027F
QUALCOMM ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C9:49027F


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3. News
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Rogers Launches "Green" Materials Site

Materials specialist Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT) will be highlighting 
its new "Green Leader" web site at the upcoming IPC Printed Circuits 
Expo (February 8-10, 2006, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA). 
The site contains details on the company's environmentally friendly 
product offerings, including RO4000 thermoset laminate materials, 
R/flex CRYSTAL flexible circuit materials, and the company's 
signature RT/duroid microwave laminate materials for applications 
past 90 GHz. 
Rogers Corp. ("Green") ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2BE:49027F
IPC Printed Circuits Expo ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C6:49027F
		 

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4. News
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VCOs Boast Broadband Tuning

Synergy Microwave (Paterson, NJ) has developed a line of extremely 
broadband voltage-controlled oscillators in surface-mount packages. 
The oscillator line includes model DCFO35105-5 that tunes from 350 
to 1050 MHz and model DCMO100230-12 that tunes from 1000 to 2300 
MHz. The former exhibits typical phase noise of -112 dBc/Hz offset 
10 kHz from the carrier, while the latter has typical phase noise of 
-101 dBc/Hz offset 10 kHz from the carrier. Well suited for wireless 
applications such as cellular radios and wireless local area 
networks (WLANs), the oscillators feature patent-pending REL-PRO 
packaging technology for high-yield, reliable electrical contacts.  
Synergy Microwave Corp. ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C3:49027F


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5. News
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GaAs FETs Drop To New Noise Lows

Device supplier California Eastern Laboratories (Santa Clara, CA) 
has announced the availability of two new GaAs heterojunction 
field-effect transistors (HJ-FETs) with among the lowest device 
noise figures in the industry. Model NE3509M04 features a 0.35-dB 
noise figure with 16.3 dB associated gain at 2.4 GHz (running on 10 
mA and +2 VDC). Model NE3508M04 provides a 0.41-dB noise figure and 
14-dB associated gain at 2.4 GHz. Both transistors are supplied in 
lead-free four-pin, flat-lead packages. 
California Eastern Laboratories ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2CE:49027F


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6. News
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Adapter Kit Supports 40-GHz Connections

A coaxial adapter kit has been developed by Electronika 
International (Cleveland, OH) with standard and reverse-polarity 
components to make quick inter-connections between many different 
connector types, including BNC, TNC, SMA, Type N, MMCX, UHF, and 
even RCA audio connectors. Made of brass and stainless steel with 
gold-plated electrical contacts, the kit is supplied with a total of 
40 adapters. The firm offers high-precision adapters usable at 
frequencies through 40 GHz.
Electronika International, Inc. ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C1:49027F
 

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7. News
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Combiner Handles 750 W CW at 1 GHz

Innovative Power Products has introduced their model IPP-1000 
four-way power combiner, capable of 750 W CW total output power from 
400 to 1000 MHz. Supplied with TNC female input connectors and a 
female SC output connector, the combiner measures 8.52 by 3.27 by 
1.37 in. with less than 0.4 dB insertion loss and better than 1.30:1 
VSWR.  
Innovative Power Products ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C2:49027F


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8. News
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New Company Makes Noise

NoiseWave Corp. (East Hanover, NJ) has surfaced as a new supplier of 
precision noise-based instruments and noise sources. The firm 
recently announced their model NW301 surface-mount noise diode for 
applications from 10 MHz to 3.5 GHz. The device provides typical 
effective noise ratio (ENR) of at least 32 dB and typically 35 dB 
for test and communications applications. 
NoiseWave Corp. ---> http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C7:49027F


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9.  Happenings - Conferences
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IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
January 17-19, 2006
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA
http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C4:49027F

IEC DesignCon 2006
February 6-9, 2006
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara, CA
http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2CF:49027F

RF & Hyper
March 21-23, 2006
CNIT
La Defense, Paris, France
http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2C5:49027F

Del Mar Electronics Show 
April 26-27, 2006
Del Mar Fairgrounds
Del Mar, CA
http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2D0:49027F

CALL FOR PAPERS
IMAPS International Conference on 
High-Temperature Electronics (HiTEC 2006)
May 15-18, 2006
Hilton of Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2BC:49027F

International Microwave Theory & Techniques 
Symposium (MTT-S)
June 11-16, 2006
Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, CA
http://news.mwrf.com/t?ctl=1D2CA:49027F


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