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Keysight Holding a Virtual Event to Showcase their Millimeter Wave Solutions

Millimeter-Wave technologies are evolving using techniques such as MIMO and Phased Array Antennas. Next-generation wireless systems are targeting a range of new capabilities including higher bandwidths, more connected devices, and lower latency.

On June 23rd, 24th and 25th, Keysight will offer training courses and virtual demonstrations of advanced tools for design, simulation, and test at the Millimeter Wave Innovations Event. Click here to read more.

Skyworks’ California Facility Receives AS9100D Certification

Skyworks Solutions has announced that its Milpitas, California based facility has now achieved AS9100D certification. Through its defense and space business (formerly known as Isolink), Skyworks is a leading global supplier of high performance, high-quality radiation-tolerant components for aerospace, defense, medical, extreme industrial and high-reliability markets and applications.

AS9100D certification is an industry-recognized, international aerospace quality management system standard, which provides manufacturing suppliers such as Skyworks with a comprehensive quality system for providing safe and reliable products. Click here to read more.

Bluetest Expands their Unique 5G OTA Solution for Directive Measurements in the mm-Wave Range

Bluetest has expanded its unique 5G offering for the RTS65 Over-the-Air (OTA) test system with a Compact Antenna Test Range (CATR) option addressing the 5G community’s need for directive measurements in the FR2 (mm-Wave) range. This original solution enables directional measurements while still supporting multipath isotropic measurements in both the FR1 (sub-6 GHz) and FR2 (mm-Wave) ranges. Bluetest has created a unique combination of a reverberation chamber and a CATR in one system, creating an indispensable tool for the R&D of 5G devices.

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Cobham Develops mm-Wave Active Electronically Scanned Arrays for Radars & Surveillance Applications

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), a leading provider of mission-critical electronic solutions, has announced the capability to develop new millimeter wave (mmW) Active Electronically Scanned Arrays (AESA) for airborne early warning radar, intercept or acquisition control, ballistic missile warning and acquisition surveillance, mapping and missile tracking and guidance applications. Frequencies under development include Ka-Band and W-Band. Due to the technical challenges of deploying AESA architectures in this frequency range, CAES is one of only a handful of organizations with the capability to develop such solutions.

Jeff Hassannia, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Strategy and Technology for Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions, commented that their AESA technology incorporates the best capabilities from the broad portfolio of technologies, representing an integrated aperture to data architecture. As one of only a handful of companies able to provide this capability, Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions is able to achieve this milestone due to their legacy in antenna and aperture design and mastery of the front end of advanced systems combined with the familiarity with the needs of aerospace and defense customers. It is critical to offer cutting-edge sensor technologies in partnership with their customers to deliver solutions aligned with program needs and the needs of the warfighters. Click here to read more.

IMS 2020 Announces Schedule for Its Virtual Event Taking Place in August

IEEE MTT-S will be hosting the 2020 edition of the International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2020) and Microwave Week from August 4-6, 2020. The event will be held virtually because of the on-going covid-19 pandemic.

IMS 2020 will continue with the theme of ‘Connectivity Matters’ - built on five pillars that link the world: 5G & 6G networks, aerospace and defense programs, autonomous vehicles, the digital economy, and ensuring the connection of under-represented communities - and feature keynote speakers from industry leaders such as Samsung, Google, California Institute of Technology, and the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union. Click here to read more.

South Korean Radar Company Raises $5.8 Million During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bitsensing, a South Korean radar technology start-up, has raised $5.8 million in a Pre-Series A round of funding, despite the COVID-19 impact on financial markets. This round was led by LB Investment, a leading venture capital in South Korea, and Mando Corporation, a South Korean global Tier 1 automotive supplier that participated as a strategic investor. Hansae and SB Partners also participated along with Future Play and SJ Investment Partners from a previous round.

Bitsensing is developing innovative radar-based sensing technology that is reliable, compact, multi-functional, and affordable to design to make everyday life safer for everyone. Bitsensing's radar sensors not only detect targets but also can track and map what is happening in any environmental setting in real-time without creating privacy issues or compromising performance in harsh weather. Click here to read more.

StratEdge Expands Production Capacity of its RF Packaging Line for 5G Infrastructure

StratEdge Corporation, a leader in design, production and assembly services for high-frequency and high-power semiconductor packages, announced the expansion of its production line for producing ceramic and molded ceramic packages to support 5G infrastructure demands. The packages, usually used to protect high-power laterally-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor (LDMOS), gallium arsenide (GaAs), silicon carbide (SiC), and gallium nitride (GaN) devices, match standard outlines developed to support cellular base stations. Run rates in excess of 100,000 packages are being accommodated.

GaN-on-SiC devices are frequently used in 5G base stations, but these devices can have extremely high-power densities, which generate a tremendous amount of localized heat. StratEdge packages use copper-molybdenum-copper (CMC) bases to dissipate this heat, increasing the power output the chip achieves and enabling the device to operate at cooler temperatures so it lasts longer, has higher reliability, and performs more efficiently. Click here to read more.

Innophase Introduces the World’s Lowest Power Wi-Fi Solutions for IoT Devices

InnoPhase, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in extreme low power wireless IoT solutions, has announced the INP1010 and INP1011 Talaria TWO™ modules. These modules are complete solutions on their own with wireless connectivity and integrated micro-controller for edge of network IoT designs.

According to InnoPhase, the Talaria TWO's unique digital polar radio architecture makes the modules the world's lowest power Wi-Fi solution. Engineers can now focus on the value-added aspects of their design while still being able to take advantage of the ultra-low power wireless connectivity, processing capability and robust security features of the embedded Talaria TWO system on a chip (SoC). Click here to read more.

Akoustis Introduces First 5.5 GHz XBAW Filter for Wi-Fi 6E Applications

Akoustis Technologies, an integrated device manufacturer (IDM) of patented bulk acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other wireless applications, has announced its first wideband 5.5 GHz XBAW filter module and shipment of multiple samples to WiFi 6E SoC and OEM companies.

The new 5.5 GHz filter module covers the 5.1-5.8 GHz spectrum with low power loss in the passband. This new RF filter solution will be offered as a standard catalog product, available to all potential customers. With ultra-wide bandwidth coverage of 665 MHz, it is the widest bandwidth BAW filter product available in the market with a fractional bandwidth of 12%. The 5.5 GHz high-performance XBAW filter module coexists with the new 6 GHz WiFi band, outperforming the coexistence of traditional LTCC and dielectric resonator filter technologies. Click here to read more.

CPI Acquires the Antenna Systems Business of General Dynamics

Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) has completed the purchase of SATCOM Technologies, the antenna systems business of General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc., a business unit of General Dynamics. The transaction was funded using newly committed debt financing.

The newly acquired business, which consists of approximately 1,000 employees, as well as facilities in the United States, Europe and India. The new business will be called CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc. It will be owned and operated as a subsidiary of CPI and will work closely with CPI's existing antenna systems businesses, CPI Malibu Division and Orbital Systems LLC, to offer customers a broad and deep portfolio of satellite communications (Satcom) antenna systems and related products for use in defense, communications, and scientific applications. The organization's executive management team will remain in place and report to Andrew Ivers, CPI's chief operating officer. Click here to read more.

OMMIC Fab Now Back to Normal Production After Two Months of Lockdown

OMMIC, a supplier of MMIC circuits, Foundry Services and Epitaxial Wafers based on III-V (GaAs, GaN and InP) materials, has announced that their production is gradually getting back to normal after two months of lockdown. In March, the company decided to drastically reduce the number of employees at the OMMIC facility. They applied a partial shutdown on their activities to reduce the number of employees on-site to a minimum level in order to limit the spread of the virus, while maintaining core deliveries and site safety.

With additional safety procedures to ensure employees’ health and safety, the company moved back to two shifts. Meanwhile, the OMMIC sales team (local and corporate) continued to function normally and has provided all the support needed. Click here to read more.

Sumitomo and NEC to Install 5G Enabled Smart Poles in Tokyo

Two of Japan’s leading companies, Sumitomo Corporation and NEC Corporation, have signed an agreement with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, for the preliminary/trial installation and verification of smart poles. Together with NEC, Sumitomo intends to install two types of smart poles in the Nishi-shinjuku area of Tokyo by the end of June 2020.

In its "TOKYO Data Highway Basic Strategy" formulated in August 2019, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government calls for constructing an ultra-high-speed mobile Internet network in Tokyo. As part of that effort, the government is looking to install smart poles at an early date in the Nishi-shinjuku area, a priority improvement zone. Smart poles are multi-functional poles equipped with communication base stations, Wi-Fi, street lighting, signage, etc., and they are expected to serve as infrastructure useful for the provision of new community services. Click here to read more.

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