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LONGBOW to Provide Saudi Arabia with Fire Control Radars for Apache Attack Helicopters

The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corporation, received a $90.6 million contract to provide Saudi Arabia with LONGBOW Fire Control Radars (FCRs) for the AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 15 Jun 2013

Raytheon's Jam-Resistant, Battlefield Radio Transmits Data Securely to Stryker Combat Vehicles

Raytheon Company's jam-resistant, battlefield radio recently transmitted data securely over the air to more than 30 Stryker combat vehicles, proving that it could meet the U.S. Army's need for a tactical wireless Internet via a vehicle-mounted mobile radio system.

From Raytheon Company 15 Jun 2013

New GaAs MMIC High-Power E-Band Amplifiers from Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation has developed new gallium arsenide (GaAs) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) high-power amplifiers operating in the E-Band communication frequency spectrum.

From Northrop Grumman Corporation 14 Jun 2013

New Receiver Tracks Aircraft from Space

An A320 overflying Scotland was the first aircraft 'seen' from space by a new receiver from the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), proving that tracking aircraft from space is possible.

14 Jun 2013

Raytheon Improves GaN Yield and Reduces Cost for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits

Raytheon Company was honored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) for successful completion of a Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Gallium Nitride (GaN) production improvement program, culminating more than a decade of government and Raytheon investment in GaN RF (radio frequency) circuit technology.

From Raytheon Company 14 Jun 2013

STM Introduces EEPROMs with Extended Cycling Performance and Longer Data Retention

The latest EEPROM family from STMicroelectronics, the world’s no.1 EEPROM supplier, guarantees endurance of up to 4 million erase/write cycles - whereas competing devices offer only 1 million cycles giving designers extra freedom to update stored data more frequently and extend system lifetime, even at high temperatures.

From STMicroelectronics 14 Jun 2013

imec and Renesas Electronics Corporation Unveiled World's First Multi-standard Radio Frequency (RF) Receiver at VLSI Circuits Symposium in Kyoto 2013

At this week’s VLSI circuits Symposium in Kyoto (Japan) (June 12-14, 2013), imec and Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions unveiled the world’s first multi-standard radio frequency (RF) receiver in 28nm CMOS technology, and a 28nm analog-to-digital converter (ADC) targeting wide-bandwidth standards such as LTE-advanced and next-generation WiFi.

From imec 14 Jun 2013

New Competitively Priced Single Axis Accelerometer by Kistler Instruments

The new, competitively priced Type 8315 single axis accelerometer from Kistler Instruments is especially suited to low frequency applications, including automobile ride quality, wind tunnel investigations and aerospace testing where structural vibration and dynamics are used to assess performance, reliability and integrity parameters.

From Kistler Instrumente AG 13 Jun 2013

Scientists Miniaturise GPS Tracking Collars to Track Domestic Cats

Scientists who designed GPS tracking collars to study hunting cheetahs in Botswana have miniaturised them to track 50 domestic cats in a Surrey village for a BBC programme. The BBC also deployed cat-cams which were turned on by the collar’s activity sensor when the cat was moving. ‘The Secret Life of The Cat’ is broadcast on BBC Two Horizon on Thursday June 13th 2013 at 21:00.

13 Jun 2013

imec Presented Important Findings on Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Operation at VLSI 2013 Technology Symposium 2013

At this week’s VLSI 2013 Technology Symposium 2013 (Kyoto, Japan, June 11-13, 2013), imec presented important findings increasing the understanding into the stochastic nature of Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) operation.

From imec 13 Jun 2013

Master Electronics Honored with Silver Distributor-of-the-Year Award

Master Electronics, a leading distributor of electromechanical, interconnect and passive components, was honored with the Silver Distributor-of-the-Year Award for the Americas Region from Honeywell Sensing and Control (S&C).

13 Jun 2013

XMOS Introduces New Reference Design for xCORE Multicore Microcontroller Products

XMOS today announced a new reference design for its xCORE multicore microcontroller products that brings Ethernet AVB (Audio Visual Bridging) technology to more cost-sensitive audio transport and time sensitive networking applications in which latency and timing are critical.

13 Jun 2013

Ramp to Volume Production Announced for CMOSIS’ 12 MP CMV12000 Image Sensors

CMOSIS, a leading independent developer and supplier of high end CMOS image sensors for professional imaging applications, and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced the ramp to volume production for CMOSIS’ 12-megapixel CMV12000, following the very successful volume production of its CMV products.

From TowerJazz USA 13 Jun 2013

Organic CMOS Image Sensor Technology Developed by FUJIFILM and Panasonic

FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) and Panasonic Corporation (President: Kazuhiro Tsuga) have developed organic CMOS image sensor technology that uses an organic photoelectric conversion layer with a photoelectric conversion property at the light receiving section of an image sensor to achieve performance beyond that of conventional image sensors.

13 Jun 2013

New Report on Global Torque Sensor Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Torque Sensor Market - By Technology (Rotary, Static/Reaction, Magnetoelastic, IR, SAW, Optical), Application (Automotive, Industrial, Test & Measurement, Aerospace & Defense, Medical) and Geography, Global Forecast & Analysis (2013-2018)" report to their offering.

13 Jun 2013

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LONGBOW to Provide Saudi Arabia with Fire Control Radars for Apache Attack Helicopters

Raytheon's Jam-Resistant, Battlefield Radio Transmits Data Securely to Stryker Combat Vehicles

New GaAs MMIC High-Power E-Band Amplifiers from Northrop Grumman

New Receiver Tracks Aircraft from Space

Raytheon Improves GaN Yield and Reduces Cost for Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits

STM Introduces EEPROMs with Extended Cycling Performance and Longer Data Retention

imec and Renesas Electronics Corporation Unveiled World's First Multi-standard Radio Frequency (RF) Receiver at VLSI Circuits Symposium in Kyoto 2013

New Competitively Priced Single Axis Accelerometer by Kistler Instruments

Scientists Miniaturise GPS Tracking Collars to Track Domestic Cats

imec Presented Important Findings on Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Operation at VLSI 2013 Technology Symposium 2013

Master Electronics Honored with Silver Distributor-of-the-Year Award

XMOS Introduces New Reference Design for xCORE Multicore Microcontroller Products

Ramp to Volume Production Announced for CMOSIS’ 12 MP CMV12000 Image Sensors

Organic CMOS Image Sensor Technology Developed by FUJIFILM and Panasonic

New Report on Global Torque Sensor Market

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