Microwave Engineering Europe - December 2007 - (Page 7) CONTENTS 7 4 9 11 COVER News Comment Military/Aerospace: Heat ray a focus for concern Cover Feature: Product lines combine to support transceiver designs from DC to 86 GHz Hittite — Velocium MMIC products provide full coverage of commercial and military millimeterwave bands. Velocium’s commercial MMIC products are typically used in automotive radar, long and short haul communications, fiber optics, test equipment, radar imaging, space, military, and other high performance electronic systems. Test & Measurement: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 12 The cover illustration depicts the Velocium 38, 60 and 82 GHz MMIC product range from Hittite, which provide designers with a comprehensive range of devices that cover commercial and military millimeterwave bands. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR JEAN-PIERRE JOOSTING Tel. +32 2 7400056 email: jean-pierre.joosting@eetimes.be CONTRIBUTING EDITORS COLIN HOLLAND email: colin.holland@btinternet.com JOHN WALKO email: jwalko@cmp.com EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Tom Brazil, University College Dublin, Ireland Marco Lisi, Telespazio, Italy Holger Meinel, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, Germany Marco Guglielmi, ESTEC, The Netherlands Chris Snowden, Filtronic Compound Semiconductor/ University of Leeds, UK. 16 24 Analysis of electrical signal integrity in wireless SoCs Effective find and fix strategy: from RTL to successful layout. Hot 3G phone owes debt to analog Keeping cool with increasing power to density ratios Microwave technology specialist Milmega is using CFdesign flow and thermal simulation software during early stage product development to optimise the design of its cooling systems and get new products to market in record time. Products Product Focus: Enhanced 2008 version EDA software improves productivity throughout the design flow Agilent Technologies’ Advanced Design System 2008 delivers faster communications product design and demonstrates dramatic productivity improvements for typical design tasks. Calendar 28 30 ADVERTISING PRODUCTION LYDIA GIJSEGOM - MAGGIE FLEERACKERS Tel +32 (0) 2 740 00 50 email: lydia.gijsegom@eetimes.be CIRCULATION & FINANCE LUC DESIMPEL Tel +32 (0) 2 740 0055 email: luc.desimpel@eetimes.be ART MANAGER JEAN-PAUL SPELIERS Tel +32 (0)2 740 0052 email: jean-paul.speliers@eetimes.be ACCOUNTING RICARDO PINTO FERREIRA Tel +32 (0)2 740 0051 email: sonia.stouti@eetimes.be VP SALES PATRICK FLYNN Tel +44 (0)1732 377186 email: pflynn@cmp.com PUBLISHER ANDRE ROUSSELOT Tel +32 (0)2 740 0053 email: aroussel@cmp.com EUROPEAN BUSINESS PRESS A CMP COMPANY 144 Avenue Eugène Plasky 1030 Brussels - Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 740 00 50 Fax: +32 (0)2 740 00 59 www.mwee.com VAT Registration: BE 461.357.437 RPM: Brussels Company Number: 0461357437 © 2007 E.B.P. SA, a CMP Company All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. The contents of Microwave Engineering Europe are subject to reproduction in information storage and retrieval systems. Microwave Engineering Europe is published ten times a year. Apply for a free copy of the journal online at www.mwee. com/subscribe/ Subscriptions: Microwave Engineering Europe is available on subscription to others at 150 Euro. Refunds on cancelled subscriptions will only be provided at the Publisher’s discretion, unless specifically guaranteed within the terms of the subscription offer. Paid subscription queries tel: +32 2 740 00 50 Printed by Perka. 32 40 42 Erratum: In the November issue of MWEE in the introduction to the article on page 13 "Microwave component design easier with new EM and EDA tools" we incorrectly referred to Applied Wave Research (AWR) as Applied Microwave. It should have read Applied Wave Research. • • • • • Microwave Engineering Europe ● December 2007 ● www.mwee.com 007_MWEE.indd 7 23/11/07 14:47:11 http://www.mwee.com http://www.mwee.com
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