IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Videos

1. Live From IMS2011: Capture Playback System Demonstration
   6/9/2011
   Troy Calderwood, director of applications engineering at X-COM Systems, demonstrates their IQC2110 capture playback system with a Tektronix real-time spectrum analyzer being used as the front end digitizer.
2. Live From IMS2011: Introducing The XR Family Of ‘eXtremely Rugged’ LDMOS RF Power Transistors
   6/9/2011
   In this demo, Mark Murphy, director of marketing and business development at NXP Semiconductors, shows the ruggedness of the BLF578XR, NXP’s first XR RF power transistor.
3. Live From IMS2011: Radio Component Demonstration
   6/9/2011
   Kees Schetters, director of marketing, Wireless Infrastructure, at NXP Semiconductors, provides a radio component demonstration using NXP RF products.
4. Live From IMS2011: New Family Of Wideband Transistors
   6/9/2011
   Erick A. Olsen, business development director at NXP Semiconductors, highlights a new family of wideband transistors that can be used in a variety of applications, including oscillators, mixers, and LNAs.
5. Live From IMS2011: A Look At The NXP High-Performance RF Design Challenge’s Winning Project
   6/9/2011
   Brad Lindseth, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at the University of Colorado who works at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, discusses his winning design in the NXP High-Performance RF Design Challenge, "A 2-kW Amplifier for a Portable 449-MHz Space Antenna Wind Profiler Radar."
6. Live From IMS2011: MT2000 Mixed-Signal Active Load Pull System Updates
   6/9/2011
   Mauro Marchetti, CEO of Anteverta Microwave, partnering with Maury Microwave Corporation, describes the updates to the MT2000 mixed-signal active load pull system, which will have new nonlinear measurement capabilities.
7. Live From IMS2011: New, Compact, 90-Degree Quadrature Hybrid Coupler
   6/9/2011
   KRYTAR President and COO Doug Hagan discusses the company’s new 90-degree quadrature hybrid coupler with applications including monopulse comparators, power combining/dividing, mixers, modulators, and phased array antenna systems.
8. Live From IMS2011: Lightweight Gimbal Assembly For Unmanned Aerial Systems
   6/9/2011
   Brent Waddoups, director of engineering, Integrated Products, at Cobham Antenna Systems, presents the company's integrated UAS lightweight gimbal assembly, a compact, dual-axis concentric unit that can be used for multiple applications aboard medium-to-large unmanned aerial systems.
9. Live From IMS2011: Agilent Demos New Tools For Radar And EW System Testing
   6/8/2011
   Kay Gheen, applications engineer for Agilent’s signal analysis division, introduces us to four new systems launched by Agilent at IMS2011 that help radar system and electronic warfare (EW) engineers with their daily work.
10. Live From IMS2011: Achieving Long-Duration RF Signal Storage From Digital Spectrum Analyzers
    6/8/2011
    Jim Taber, director of marketing for X-COM Systems, shows how his company’s IQC2110 signal recorder can be used to capture streaming bandwidth from an Agilent X-series spectrum analyzer, convert the digital data to analog I and Q, and drive an Agilent PSG signal generator to rebroadcast the signal at the original carrier or any arbitrary carrier.