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Plextek is championing and hosting a special Cambridge Wireless and Security & Defence Interest Group (SIG) event, titled ‘Is Communications Resilience Good Enough?’ Taking place at Plextek's home near Cambridge on 12th May 2011, the event will tackle issues associated with communications in defence and security, in particular the ability to recover from change, accident or attack. Plextek’s Defence & Security Consultant...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, today announced enhancements to its image processing suite designed to help medical device manufacturers overcome the technical challenges involved in developing mega-pixel video solutions for medical applications. These enhancements allow medical device manufacturers to create more affordable, efficient and intelligent High Definition (HD) video imaging solutions tha...

Plextek, the leading Cambridge Design house, has announced that it has generated an internal development tool that will help software engineers analyse the contents of LTE and W-CDMA protocol messages. Traditionally these have been incredibly difficult to read and understand and the development of this software tool from Plextek will greatly speed up development time on 3G and 4G networks. A trial version is available as a free download from Plex...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy has launched a range of strategic consulting activities to cover environmental advice and evaluation. Plextek is now able to help clients in communications equipment and services markets to evaluate technology options that both benefit the environment and make sense economically. A commercial advantage can also be generated thanks to the current dynamic regulatory envi...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy has been named 'Consultancy of the Year' at the 2009 British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs). In winning the award Plextek beat off stiff competition from other nominees including Lotus Engineering, Shearline, ARRK R&D and Aardvark Engineering. The BEEA judging panel was impressed with Plextek's range of design capabilities and its market reach within the com...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has been listed in the 2009 ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA’ - a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period, in which Plextek grew an impressive 411%, seeing it ranked 440th.

Plextek’s Director of RF Integration, Liam Devlin, will make a presentation on how to save money by using custom designed GaAs MMICs at the Microwave Applications (MicroApps) seminar taking place during the 2010 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). This year’s IMS takes place from May 23-28 in Anaheim, California. The presentation will look at how significant cost savings can be achieved and discusses the advantages of being able ...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, today announced that it has been selected to join Texas Instrument’s (TI) Elite Design House Network. As an Elite Design House Network member, Plextek will deploy its extensive design, implementation and manufacturing knowledge with TI products to help customers more rapidly and cost-effectively bring innovative electronics products to market.

Designing electronic equipment within the emerging ‘E-band’ of 71-76GHz and 81-86 GHz is raising new issues that were not present at lower frequencies. This is the subject of a discussion that Plextek’s Liam Devlin will present at the next ARMMS conference. The paper, titled ‘The Design of E-band MMIC Amplifiers’ will look at the design and implementation of E-band MMIC amplifiers including the choice of process, the...

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, has redesigned two GaAs ICs for a major US-based high-technology company after the original devices, which are used in a large number of different boards and products, became obsolete and could no longer be sourced. In turning to Plextek, the company was able to avoid the expensive process of completely redesigning its various boards and products to accommodate a repl...