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By JP Joosting, Microwave Engineering Europe NEWS 11 Ethertronics buys Swedish antenna design group Embedded antenna specialist Ethertronics Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) has bought, for an undisclosed sum, a design centre owned by Flextronics in Kalmar, Sweden. As part of the transaction, Ethertronics acquired the facility’s lab and design center as well as approximately 10 engineers. The company says the acquisition gives it access to existing engineering talent and paves the way for a seamless transition, as many of the existing customers and their respective projects are migrating over to Ethertronics. The company and group is being renamed Ethertronics Sweden AB. Ethertronics specializes in the development, manufacture and integration of ceramic antennas and customized stamped-metal embedded antennas for wideband and multi-band wireless devices. www.mwee.com/205905933 Traditional Spectrum Analyzer 5 seconds Tektronix 5 seconds Garmin chooses Sarantel for next generation handheld GPS Garmin, a leader in handheld GPS products, has chosen Sarantel’s award-winning GeoHelix GPS Antennas for its recently launched Colorado range of handheld GPS receivers. The technology is one of the most compact and yet accurate positioning antennas on the market today; designed with the varied and increasing demand for GPS technology in mind. Colorado users will beneﬁt from a host of innovative features, such as world class positional accuracy, and will ﬁnd its small size easier to use and more practical. The range of products incorporates a unique ‘’Rock ‘N’ Roller’’ input device that allows for one-handed operation. Other features include shadedrelief and satellite imagery mapping and vibrant color 3-inch screen with high resolution, 15 hours of operating time on AA batteries, a built-in compass, altimeter, and temperature sensor, plus the ability to wirelessly exchange data between units. www.mwee.com/205604328 The two screens represent a traditional swept tuned spectrum analyzer and a Tektronix Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer running DPX™, each detecting an identical signal that changes every 1.28 seconds. Tektronix DPX technology—see what you’ve been missing. Discover what’s real with Tektronix DPX™ technology. Now you can see your time-varying signals live with DPX technology, available on all Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers from Tektronix. DPX displays a live RF view of your signal changing over time. It shows you RF signal characteristics that are practically invisible with prior architectures. See a live RF demo www.tektronix.com/rtsa-dpx GPS-on-GSM set to show 26.2 percent CAGR, says analyst Global shipments of GPS-enabled handsets are expected to grow from 175 million units in 2007 to 560 million units in 2012, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.2 percent, according to market forecasr ﬁrm Berg Insights (Gothenburg, Sweden). Rapid adoption of global positioning by satellite (GPS) technology in mass-market GSM/ WCDMA handsets will be the main driver, according to Berg. “This year we expect to see an abundance of new models supporting GPS from all major brands. By 2009, GPS is going to be a must-have in all highend handsets,” said Andre Malm, telecom analyst with Berg Insight, in a statement. www.mwee.com/205918586 © 2008 Tektronix. All rights reserved. Tektronix products are covered by U.S. and foreign patents, issued and pending. TEKTRONIX and the Tektronix logo are registered trademarks of Tektronix, Inc. Microwave Engineering ● January/February 2008 ● www.mwee.com 011-MWEE-News.indd 11 25/01/08 16:09:28 http://www.mwee.com/205905933 http://www.mwee.com/205604328 http://www.tektronix.com/rtsa-dpx http://www.tektronix.com/rtsa-dpx http://www.mwee.com/205918586 http://www.mwee.com

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Microwave Engineering Europe - January/February 2008 Contents News Comment Radio: Raising the Bar for the Radio: Making 802.11n Work Cover Feature: The RF-System-In-Package Trend - Efficient Design with Advanced Design System 2008 Wireless Sensor Networks: The Zigbee PRO Feature Set: More of a Good Thing Very Fast Measurements of Wireless Devices with Small Antennas in Reverberation Chambers WiMAX Update 2008 Bridging the Gap from the CMOS DSP to the Antenna in OFDM Systems Products Calendar

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