Norman G. Hildreth

Hittite Microwave LLC designs and manufactures performance integrated circuits, or ICs, modules, subsystems and instrumentation for technically demanding digital, RF, microwave and millimeterwave applications covering DC to 110 GHz. The company's standard and custom products apply analog, digital and mixed-signal semiconductor technologies, which are used in a wide variety of wireless & wired communication and sensor applications for the automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, fiber optic, microwave & millimeterwave communications, military, space and test & measurement markets. It operates design centers and has sales and technical support staff in Canada, Colorado, Egypt, Norway, Turkey and Virginia, and has sales offices in China, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The company was founded by Yalcin Ayasli in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

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.