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review of CNES strategy and activities in the Earth observation programme. The talk covered past successes of the Directorate along with present-day activities and future plans. A large array of projects was described, with applications for areas such as climate change, water cycle, land cover, and oceans.
Vernon Singhroy, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, reviewed the role of the organisation in working with the Canadian Space Agency to develop remote sensing applications for government. In particular Singhroy provided an overview of the RADARSAT-1 and -2 platforms that provide data for applications such as natural resource management and exploration, climate change, and disaster management.
In 2011 the meetings will move to Prague, Czech Republic, where they will be held at the Clarion Hotel 19-22 September.
SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 180,000 constituents from 168 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and supports scholarships, grants, and other education programs around the world.
Viper RF & TriQuint Bite Back with Joint Agreement
Under the agreement, Viper RF will offer design support and specialized RF expertise to help customers develop chips using TriQuint’s process technologies and design tools.
Viper RF, a specialist in microwave and RF IC design and development has entered into a co- marketing agreement with TriQuint, a leading RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider. Under the agreement Viper RF will offer design support and specialized RF expertise to help customers develop chips using TriQuint’s process
technologies and design tools.
Viper RF is a UK microwave and RF consultancy and product-based company that addresses a range of markets including defence and security, communications and wireless applications, covering frequencies in the range DC – 100GHz.
The TriQuint foundry offers a range of process technologies including GaAs FETs (pHEMT and MESFET), InGaP HBT, BiHEMT and GaN, on 3-inch, 100mm and 150mm wafers. Its customers include OEMs, fabless semiconductor and wireless startups. Viper RF joins an established network of design resources worldwide that each has the experience and tools to assist TriQuint’s customers in realizing their RF and microwave IC design goals.
“Third party design expertise, such as that provided by Viper RF, is invaluable to customers with limited design resources, and this type of co-marketing agreement provides tangible benefits to the entire RF ecosystem,” commented Mike Peters, Director of Marketing for Commercial Foundry at. TriQuint. “Viper RF’s experience in GaAs MMIC and RFIC design, as well as its market focus, is a very good match to the application areas we address.”
“TriQuint is one of the world’s leading providers of GaAs and GaN foundry technologies, and it is a great honour for us to have been named as one of their co-marketing design resource companies,” added Jim Mayock, CEO of Viper RF. “We look forward to a long and mutually rewarding relationship helping customers to use TriQuint’s foundry services profitably.”
Viper RF is a microwave and RF consultancy and product-based company with a design office situated in Sunderland, North East of England. The privately-funded company was established in 2008 with the aim of developing innovative products as well as offering design services and consultancy.
The company has considerable expertise in the design and development of sophisticated RF components and subsystems from concept through to product release and specializes in GaAs MMIC and RFIC design, RF and microwave subsystem and module development and packaging technologies.
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