Clark Ragan

Scintera Networks LLC delivers high performance, compact and very low-power system-on-chip solutions to measure, modify and monitor radio frequency signals and systems. Its products are used in cellular infrastructure, microwave point-to-point backhaul, microwave radio, broadcast infrastructure, and general purpose power amplifier linearization applications; and various other applications, such as software defined radios, HMS mobile military communications and white space, public safety mobile and portable transmitters, and customer premises equipment. Scintera Networks was founded by Abhijit G. Shanbhag and Abhijit Phanse in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sirenza Microdevices, an ISO 9001:2000-certified supplier (registered by QMI), is a designer and supplier of high-performance RF components for wireless and wireline communications equipment manufacturers. Their product lines include amplifiers, power amplifiers, discrete devices, RF signal processing components, and signal source products, mil/aero components, and high-performance multi-component modules (MCMs) for transmit and receive applications.

RF Micro Devices, Inc. designed, developed and marketed proprietary radio frequency integrated circuit products. It offered products used in mobile device, wireless infrastructure, wireless local area network, cable television/broadband, Smart Energy/advanced metering infrastructure and aerospace and defense markets. The company was founded by William J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal in 1991 and was headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

Sawtek, Inc. used to manufacture, develop and market electronic signal processing components based on surface acoustic wave technology, which were primarily used in the wireless communication industry. The company products were including bandpass filters, resonators, delay lines, oscillators and surface acoustic wave devices-based subsystems. Sawtek customers were including Ericsson, Hyundai, LGIC, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm and Samsung. The company was founded in 1979 and was located in Apopka, FL.

M/A-COM, Inc. manufactured wireless communications components. The firm offered discrete and integrated devices including amplifiers, antennas, diodes, passive devices, switches and specialized transistors. It also offered device packages, as well as semiconductor wafers in plain silicon or compound materials. The company was founded in 1950 and was headquartered in Lowell, MA.