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• Elcoteq Monterrey, Mexico Receives C-TPAT Security Certification
• AWR’s AXIEM Enables TriQuint to Simulate Entire MMIC NDPA
• Atlantik and Vincotech Team Up
• Cree and Arrow Sign Agreement
• YouTube Channel for Agilent EEsof EDA
• Laser Services Celebrates the Big 3-0
• Skyworks Supports Google’s Nexus One
• Certification for Rodelco 
• Agilent, Derby Announce Deal

Elcoteq Monterrey, Mexico Receives C-TPAT Security Certification
Elcoteq SE, a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with a consistent global reach and complete services to support the entire lifecycle of a product, has recently received the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Certification at the Monterrey, Mexico plant. C-TPAT is the leading security certification in North America and was developed to promote the voluntary relationship between government and industry to improve international supply chains and homeland security. “C-TPAT enlists close cooperation with supply chain handlers, such as Elcoteq, to provide the highest level of security to cargo,” said Kurt Schmidt, general manager Elcoteq Monterrey.

AWR’s AXIEM Enables TriQuint to Simulate Entire MMIC NDPA
TriQuint Semiconductor has used AWR’s AXIEM software to simulate an entire MMIC non-uniform distributed power amplifier (NDPA) on a quad-core PC with 4 Gbytes of RAM and a 32-bit operating system. It is first time the company has been able to electromagnetically simulate an entire structure of this size on a desktop PC. Electronic warfare (EW) systems require MMIC amplifiers that deliver high power over broad bandwidths with high efficiency, for which TriQuint’s NDPA approach is extremely well suited. Designing these complex devices requires accurate EM data up to the fifth to seventh harmonic frequency, which results in a very large mesh/matrix of up to 32 ports and 30,000 unknowns. As a result, solving the entire structure has not been practical using available EM solvers. However, AXIEM’s near-linear scaling allowed TriQuint to simulate the entire NDPA MMIC from DC to 120 GHz in under 2 minutes per frequency. The achievement was made possible by AXIEM’s shape pre-processor and hybrid adaptive meshing algorithms, which decreased the final mesh size to just over 6,000 unknowns. The MMIC demonstrates saturated RF output power of 9 to 15 W over a broad frequency range of 1.5 and 17 GHz with power-added efficiency greater than 20%.
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Atlantik and Vincotech Team Up
Vincotech, a leading supplier of GPS receiver and telematics hardware solutions, and Atlantik Elektronik, a full-service electronics distributor and market trend analyst for global technologies, have signed a distribution contract solidifying their channel partnership in the European marketplace. With this agreement, Atlantik Elektronik, a successful long-term partner of CSR, and Vincotech being the European GPS module partner of SiRF, a CSR company, will market together the latest GPS modules and telematics solutions. The primary focus of this partnership is on promoting Vincotech’s new SiRFstarIV based technology and telematics product solutions.

Cree and Arrow Sign Agreement
Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting and silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor components, announced a distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc. for Cree SiC power products. The agreement gives access to Cree’s latest commercially-available SiC Junction Barrier Schottky (JBS) products. Among the Cree products available through Arrow will be the recently released Z-REC™ Series of 600-V Schottky diodes and the groundbreaking 1200-V Schottky diode line. “Our customers are at the leading edge of green power designs,” said Robert Behn, vice president of supplier marketing for Arrow Electronics. “Expanding our Cree product offerings from high-brightness and high-power LEDs to now include power products provides our customers even broader access to the products and support they need.”
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YouTube Channel for Agilent EEsof EDA
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the launch of the Agilent EEsof EDA channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/AgilentEEsof). The channel features more than 100 informational videos with subtitles in 50 different languages. The videos offer detailed application information on the Advanced Design System, Genesys, SystemVue, and other electronic design automation software from Agilent EEsof. The channel is designed to provide tutorial information to Agilent’s large installed base of users, or to anyone wanting to learn more about Agilent EEsof’s design software and high-frequency design applications. “As today’s preeminent video-sharing Web site, YouTube provides an excellent centralized location for our many informational videos that we have produced over the past decade,” said Kirt Kisling, marcom manager with Agilent’s EEsof EDA organization. “Agilent EEsof is a global organization with a presence in more than 100 countries. By hosting our videos on YouTube, our worldwide customers can access our videos in a modern format and, using YouTube’s translator, view these videos subtitled in their own language.” The Agilent EEsof YouTube channel is accessed through links on the Agilent EEsof Web site. Product and application information is organized into playlists. For example, an X-parameter™ playlist takes customers to videos featuring Agilent’s X-parameter technology – a new category of nonlinear network parameters for high-frequency design. Customers can choose this playlist or others to get tips on applying Agilent EEsof’s products to their own specific application. Customers also can rate the videos they watch, leave comments and sign up to receive e-mail notification of new videos.
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Laser Services Celebrates the Big 3-0
Laser Services, Inc., an ISO and AS-9100 registered precision laser cutting, drilling, scribing, etching, and welding job shop, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Established in 1979 by founders Bruce and June Beauchesne, the company is owned and operated today by Gregory Sexton, president and CEO. Laser Services offers a variety of unique design and manufacturing advantages to engineers and technicians in the RF/Microwave, medical device, semiconductor, test and measurement, aerospace, military, and electronics industries, among others. In the past 30 years, it has contributed to the NASA Chandra Telescope and the CERN particle accelerator, helped medical researchers perfect implants, and perfected solder preforms that enabled the design of microwave assemblies used in anti-IED devices.
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Skyworks Supports Google’s Nexus One
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, announced that Google, Inc.’s Nexus One mobile phone is leveraging several of its highly integrated power amplifier modules. These 3G solutions were incorporated in the Google platform as part of HTC Corporation’s reference design. “Skyworks is delighted to be participating in Google’s newest Android phone,” said Liam K. Griffin, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing. “Our participation in this platform demonstrates Skyworks’ ability to work with leading handset manufacturers, smart phone providers as well as reference design partners, to deliver the world’s most powerful and leading-edge wireless systems. In addition, we are pleased to broaden our support within the high growth smart phone segment. These platforms have forged the way to 3G and 4G adoption, while being endorsed by consumers as the preferred path for mobile Internet access.”
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Certification for Rodelco 
Rodelco Electronics Corp. has received an AS9100B supplier certification for the design, development, and manufacture of RF/Microwave assemblies, microelectronic circuits, and electronic assemblies. The certificate was issued by National Quality Assurance, USA. Rodelco is a manufacturer of high quality, custom developed, RF and Microwave components and assemblies for the military and OEM market.  
www.rodelcocorp.com

Agilent, Derby Announce Deal
Agilent Technologies Inc. and Derby Associates International Inc., a leader in Web-based decision support and data collection solutions, announced the signing of a joint marketing agreement that allows Agilent to offer a new Medalist i3070 and 3070 in-circuit tester-based quality tool called “Web-Push Button Quality (Web-PBQ)” to its customers. Web-PBQ, a flexible and scalable solution, is based on Derby’s Web-native technology.
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