RF design

AT&S and Imec partnered to develop a way of putting low-loss waveguides into conventional PCBs to support D-band automotive radar and 6G modules.

Cadence Design Systems has agreed to buy the AWR RF-design company from its current owner National Instruments for approximately $160m.

Better integration of EM modeling and analysis tools with Synopsys' Custom Compiler should enable tighter design margins

Research by Professor John Rogers' group at the University of Illinois is leading to biodegradable electronics, for both defense and medical applications.

Google has moved to on-body tests of the the smart-lens platform it has been developing for the past few years while the team continues to experiment with embedded LEDs that react to blinks to help warn diabetes sufferers of sudden changes in glucose levels.

Nokia Siemens Networks has built an instrument able to handle bandwidths up 1GHz to investigate the use of milllimeter-band radio for 5G communications.

Lime Microsystems has decided to join the open-source hardware movement in the hope of building an RF analog of the Arduino.

Tanner EDA has completed the port of its HiPer Silicon design suite to work with the OpenAccess database, providing better interoperability with foundry process design kits (PDKs) and with other vendors’ IC design tools as well as providing better support for multiple users accessing the same design.