ABI Research has just released a report that looks at the microwave tube market and concludes that it is currently safe from losing significant market share to new high power solid-state devices such as GaN. This was the same conclusion offered by David Zavadil of Teledyne MEC back in 2008. Here's Zavadil's explanation why.
This free live event features leading representatives from European defence agencies, market analysts and industry leaders discussing current initiatives, market trends and strategies impacting the European Defence/Security sector.
European Microwave Week 2010 EuMW 2010, September 26 - October 1, 2010 Paris, France
The European Microwave Week consists of four conferences: The European Microwave Conference (EuMC); The European Wireless Technology Conference (EuWiT); The European Radar Conference (EuRAD); The European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). In addition to the conferences, the Week showcases a variety of workshops and short courses as well as the European Microwave Exhibition - the largest trade show on RF and microwaves in Europe.
Passive Component Technology September 21, 2010 Free 1-hour Webinar
EuMW 2010 September 26-October 1, 2010 Paris
Products
Rogers Corp. Teams New RO4460 Prepreg with RO4360 Laminates
The company, a global leader in the development and manufacture of high performance, specialty-material-based products has developed the perfect prepreg match to its popular RO4360™ laminates: RO4460™ prepregs. Both materials feature consistent dielectric constant (Dk) of 6.15 ± 0.15 and low dielectric loss of 0.003 at 2.5 GHz.
Anatech Electronics:AE1706L8769 Filter The AE1706L8769 has a cutoff frequency of 1706 MHz, insertion loss over its passband of less than 0.6 dB, return loss greater than 18 dB, and rejection at 3300 MHz greater than 40 dB and greater than 65 dB at 4800 MHz. It is designed for surface-mount applications and measures 1.5 x 0.5 x 0.4 in.
AWR®:AWR Connected™ for Cadence® Allegro® AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro enables PCB and RF co-design, simplifying the design process for high performance printed circuit board (PCB) design and significantly shortening cycle times. AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro is an interface between Cadence’s Allegro products, including both Allegro PCB and Allegro package/SiP design tools, and AWR’s Microwave Office design software.
San-tron Inc.:S292™ Connectors San-tron has announced the release of a new series of 2.92 mm connectors. S292 connectors have been standardized to Thunderline-Z’s TL-150 glass bead resulting in a transitional RF geometry that greatly reduces the tolerance sensitivity of the final product deployment.
Synergy Microwave Corp.:VCOs DXO400800-3 and DXO400800-5 The DXO400800-3 and DXO400800-5 are tiny 0.3” x 0.3” x 0.08” packaged octave tuning voltage-controlled oscillators. These VCOs are designed for +3 and +5 V supplies and cover the frequency band of 4 to 8 GHz, with ultra-low power consumption of less than 100 mW and fast tuning for agile synthesizer applications.
Florida RF/EMC Technology:Fixed Attenuator TS07XXF EMC Technology introduces a new fixed attenuator, TS07XXF, in a SMT planar style chip design. This new TS07XXF offers a small 0805 package size and has excellent frequency response from DC to 6 GHz. The TS07XXF is packaged on 1,000 piece tape and reels for high volume, pick & place and is targeted for Telecom and WiMax applications.
CST of America Inc.:CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® CST MWS enables the fast and accurate analysis of high frequency (HF) devices such as antennas, filters, couplers, planar and multi-layer structures and SI and EMC effects. Exceptionally user friendly, CST MWS quickly gives you an insight into the EM behavior of your high frequency designs.
Donn Mulder, Vice President and General Manager of Microwave Measurements Division at Anritsu, talks about his company’s research, development, manufacturing, and marketing in light of evolving wired and wireless communication systems.
This month, we asked several of our contributing experts to "The Masters of MIMO" August cover story to respond to audience questions from our last webinar on MIMO. Below are the individual replies from repesentatives from SATIMO, MI Technologies, Spirent. and Agilent.
Various experts from Rogers Corporation provide technical advice and information about RF/microwave materials in this new Blog. Trade offs between different materials, material properties and more are covered.
Modelithics has released the latest version of their popular linear and non-linear device and system level component model Libraries, v7.0. The Modelithics Library version 7.0 encompasses Modelithics popular CLR, NLT, and NLD Sub-Libraries.
Satimo presents a Spatial Fading Emulation technique, using an anechoic chamber, a channel emulator, and a mapping of geometry based stochastic channel model (GSCM) by the channel emulator to validate MIMO wireless devices.
The AE1706L8769 has a cutoff frequency of 1706 MHz, insertion loss over its passband of less than 0.6 dB, return loss greater than 18 dB, and rejection at 3300 MHz greater than 40 dB and greater than 65 dB at 4800 MHz. It is designed for surface-mount applications and measures 1.5 x 0.5 x 0.4 in. 
AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro enables PCB and RF co-design, simplifying the design process for high performance printed circuit board (PCB) design and significantly shortening cycle times. AWR Connected for Cadence Allegro is an interface between Cadence’s Allegro products, including both Allegro PCB and Allegro package/SiP design tools, and AWR’s Microwave Office design software.
San-tron has announced the release of a new series of 2.92 mm connectors. S292 connectors have been standardized to Thunderline-Z’s TL-150 glass bead resulting in a transitional RF geometry that greatly reduces the tolerance sensitivity of the final product deployment. 
The DXO400800-3 and DXO400800-5 are tiny 0.3” x 0.3” x 0.08” packaged octave tuning voltage-controlled oscillators. These VCOs are designed for +3 and +5 V supplies and cover the frequency band of 4 to 8 GHz, with ultra-low power consumption of less than 100 mW and fast tuning for agile synthesizer applications.
EMC Technology introduces a new fixed attenuator, TS07XXF, in a SMT planar style chip design. This new TS07XXF offers a small 0805 package size and has excellent frequency response from DC to 6 GHz. The TS07XXF is packaged on 1,000 piece tape and reels for high volume, pick & place and is targeted for Telecom and WiMax applications.
CST MWS enables the fast and accurate analysis of high frequency (HF) devices such as antennas, filters, couplers, planar and multi-layer structures and SI and EMC effects. Exceptionally user friendly, CST MWS quickly gives you an insight into the EM behavior of your high frequency designs.
Donn Mulder, Vice President and General Manager of Microwave Measurements Division at Anritsu, talks about his company’s research, development, manufacturing, and marketing in light of evolving wired and wireless communication systems. 
Christopher Marki of Marki Microwave files his thoughts on patents and makes his case against them in his latest blog entry.
Various experts from Rogers Corporation provide technical advice and information about RF/microwave materials in this new Blog. Trade offs between different materials, material properties and more are covered.
