Microwaves & RF Update |   April 16, 2009 Jack Browne, Technical Director

Agilent’s new LTE Book Giveaway Promotion – Limited Time Offer
Win a copy of Agilent’s new LTE and the Evolution to 4G Wireless Design and Measurement Challenges book for your team. Valued at $100.00, this 450-page book will soon be orderable on Amazon, but you have a chance to win a free copy. This will be the must-have reference for LTE design teams around the world. Have your manager enter today to win one for your team.
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Viewpoint

Building Better Broadband Access

By Jack Browne
April 16, 2009   
Broadband communications is being packaged by major service providers as an essential requirement for business and social networking.


Read this white paper: First Principles of a Gas Discharge Tube (GDT) Primary Protector
Gas discharge tubes or GDTs offer reliable and effective overvoltage protection solutions. GDTs protect central office and remote access equipment against lightning, power switching, fault conditions with their robustness, ultra-low capacitance along with low insertion and return loss performance. This white paper provides crucial design information on the relationship between key electrical parameters and ramp and surge waveforms, and much more. Read now.
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News

Wireless Backhaul Continues Expansion

April 16, 2009   
Wireless backhaul leasing appears strong, even with a gloomy economic forecast for most business areas.


Broadband Wireless Subscribers Increasing

April 16, 2009   
In spite of difficult economic conditions, the number of broadband wireless access (BWA) and WiMAX subscribers increased significantly during 2008.


Design Fortifies Type N Receptacles

April 16,2009   
San-tron has introduced an UG-58 A/U Type N panel receptacle with single-piece body construction capable of reliable performance from DC to 11 GHz.


High-Speed Switch Controls 0.5 To 18.0 GHz

April 16, 2009   
Model SWN-AKG-1DR is a single-pole, single-throw (SPST) PIN diode switch that, when equipped with option “HS,” features balanced rise and fall times of 2 ns at frequencies from 0.5 to 18.0 GHz


Miniature Synthesizers Span 200 to 4000 MHz

April 16, 2009   
The CLX series of miniature frequency synthesizers from EM Research includes fixed-frequency models from 200 MHz to 4 GHz in a package measuring 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.25 in. (19 x 19 x 6.4 mm).


An Efficiency Primer for Switch-Mode, DC-DC Converter Power Supplies
Need techniques for calculating and predicting efficiency losses in each component of a switch-mode power supply (SMPS)? This white paper from Maxim will address this topic and also address the features and techniques that improve switching regulator efficiency. Read now.
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Happenings - Conferences

Microwave Meetings

ARMMS RF & Microwave Society Conference
April 20-21, 2009
Milton Hill House
Oxfordshire, England

2009 Global Symposium on Millimeter Waves(GSMM2009)
April 20-22, 2009
Sakura Hall, Tohoku University Katahira,Sendai, Japan

2009 International Microwave Symposium (IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S) Symposium)
June 7-12, 2009
Boston, MA

12th European Microwave Week (EuMW 2009)
Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2009
Nuova, Fiera di Roma
Rome, Italy



 
 

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