R. A. Wood Associates QuickNews

Our Team gets IPC J-STD-001 Solder Training!

We had 20 people go through IPC J-STD-001 Specialist Certification Training and 9 people take J-STD-001 Hand Soldering Certification (3 days). Thanks to EPTAC, the training company, for coming into our facility to train everyone! Thank you to our great employees who took the time and effort to complete the training!

More Microwave Switch Matrices / Up Converters!

R. A. Wood Associates has received more orders for non-blocking microwave switch matrices for Naval applications. We have orders and are executing on QTY 21 9X8 Switch Matrices/Up Converters and QTY 20 8X8 Switch Matrices/Up Converters. Each of these matrices uses our own wideband power divider designs (8/9 each). The 9X8 design uses our own surface mount switches and ultra wideband (0.5 to 18 GHz) surface mount amplifier designs. Both of these products are packed into a 2U rack mount chassis design.

268 Microwave Tuners ordered for FY19!

R. A. Wood Associates received an order for 268 Microwave Tuners for FY19. This will bring our total orders to over 1500 Microwave Tuners, resulting in over 3000 digital/signal conditioning boards, and over 12,000 packaged microwave assemblies being assembled and tested at our facility, all with on-time delivery and keeping costs under control.

New Ultra-Wideband Microwave Amplifier Available!

We've developed a new Ultra-Wideband Microwave Amplifier, the RCT0050, covering the frequency band of 0.5 to 18 GHz. This amplifier is built using surface mount technology, resulting in a lower production cost than traditional MIC amplifiers, with faster delivery times. Typical amplifier characteristics are: ~19 dB Average Gain <3.0 dB P-P Flatness 22 dBm Average Pout 1 dB Noise Figure ranging from <2 dB to 5.0 dB. ~200 mA Current Draw from +12 V This is a great overall amplifier for low noise, high dynamic range, wideband EW applications, or narrowband applications. An initial datasheet showing typical data is available from this link. Let us know if you are interested in this product!

30 New Equalizers on our Equalizer WWW page!

If you haven't visited our Equalizer WWW page in a while, you'll notice we have about 30 new equalizer designs, covering different slopes and frequency bands. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!

We've built our 1000th Microwave Tuner!

We are excited to anounce that our 1000th Microwave Tuner is in burn-in and getting ready to be shipped! What a great accomplishment for our amazing team! We've shown our customers that we can deliver a quality product at production rates, and meet their delivery schedules. I'd like to personally thank them for giving us the opportunity to meet their expectations. Thank You! Bob Wood

R. A. Wood receives order for QTY 9 8X8 Microwave Switch Matrices/Up Converters!

We just received an order for 9 RCT0043 Switch Matrix/Up Converters, to be used in Navy Vessels. These products allow 8 RF/microwave inputs to be routed to any of 8 RF/microwave output ports, The switch matrix is non-blocking. The design includes: Custom designed 8-way power dividers (covering a 4:1 bandwidth) A low band Up Converter An internal power supply High Speed LVDS interface High Dynamic Range RF amplifiers on inputs and outputs Custom designed equalizers for slope correction, and FPGA board for control and status (Built in Test) monitoring The entire assembly is housed in a 2U rack mount assembly, saving precious rack space. The full frequency coverage is 0.5 to 18 GHz.

R. A. Wood Associates has a new distributor for sales to Japan, Australia, and France

We are pleased to announce that Impulse Technologies has been selected as our exclusive distributor for products purchased from Australia, France, and Japan. Please contact them directly for pricing and delivery information from the countries of Australia, France, and Japan: Sales@impulse-tech.com, www.impulse-tech.com. We are looking forward to working with Impulse Technologies. They have great service and are very responsive to customers!

Solar Arrays Up and Running

The new Solar Array is up and running, creating electricity to support our use. The Solar Array was installed to help us transition to using solar energy for all our electricity needs. This reduces our operating expenses and lowers our ecological footprint. On a good day we can create ~450 kWhours of electricity. It goes onto the power grid to credit our account if we produce more than we use. Pretty exciting!

The New Building Extension is Complete

The new building extension is complete and we are making good use of the additional space. We increased our capacity by ~8800 sq ft.

We received an order for 167 Microwave Tuners!

More exciting news that shows our continued comittment to our customers and the critical program these tuners are being used on.

Inside View of New Building Extension

The new building is ready to move into. The floor is ESD coated to prevent static buildup. LED lighting is installed throughout. Radiant heat was installed in the concrete floor. Very comfortable!

R. A. Wood Associates Receives an Order for 212 Microwave Tuners!

After a difficult negotiation to make significant cost reductions, we received an order for 212 microwave tuners. We will be delivering these at an increased rate of 24 per month. The 2 slot VME wide band microwave tuner is shown here being tested in our portable microwave test station.

New Building Extension coming along very quickly!

We are doubling our manufacturing and engineering capacity with a new building addition. It is going up very fast, and will be ready soon to serve our wonderful current customers and future customers.

24 more Microwave Tuners ready to ship!

New Equalizer designs now available!

We keep working on new designs for our customers, and improving on our earlier designs. We now have over 231 equalizer designs available, more than any other manufacturer. Various slopes over frequency ranges from DC to 28 GHz are available. You can go to our Equalizer WWW page to see what we have. Actual plots are shown for each design. If you don't see what you need, let us know, and we'll see if we can help you out.

New Capability to provide tight tolerance surface mount capacitors

New Surface Mount Rework System enhances our RF production capability

We've recently added a new Surface Mount Rework System to enhance our capability to safely and accurately replace surface mount components including RF amplifiers, mixers, FPGA's and other ball grid array parts. Another high technology tool to allow us to provide high quality, low cost production microwave assemblies using surface mount assembly processes.

Happy Holidays from R. A. Wood Associates

We can't let the year go by without wishing our customers, vendors, and fellow workers a wonderful Holiday and an optimistic look forward into the New Year. Thank you everybody, and we look forward to working with each of you next year! From all of us at R. A. Wood Associates

8X8 Switch Matrix / Up Converter Delivered

We delivered a new design to one of our customers: An 8X8 Microwave Switch Matrix /Up Converter. The unit allows 8 RF/microwave inputs to be routed to any of 8 RF/microwave output ports. The design includes: Custom designed 8-way power dividers (covering a 4:1 bandwidth) A low band Up Converter An AC/DC power supply High Speed LVDS interface High Dynamic Range RF amplifiers on inputs and outputs Custom designed equalizers for slope correction, and FPGA board for control and status (Built in Test) monitoring The entire assembly is housed in a 2U rack mount assembly, saving precious rack space. The full frequency coverage is 0.5 to 18 GHz.

We've moved to a new location!

We've moved to a new and better location. Our new address is: R. A. Wood Associates, LLC 164 Industrial Park Drive Frankfort, NY 13340 We are very excited about this move to larger space, more efficient manufacturing work flow, and easier access for our customers and employees.

R. A. Wood Associates receives a new production order for 168 wideband Microwave Tuners

We've received another production order for wideband Microwave Tuners. We will be delivering these at a rate of 17/month.

R. A. Wood Associates receives contract to build 8X8 microwave switch matrices

We received an order to design and build QTY 3 8X8 microwave switch matrices. The unit allows 8 RF/microwave inputs to be routed to any of 8 RF/microwave output ports. In another viewpoint, each of 8 RF/microwave output ports can select any of 8 RF/microwave input ports for down stream processing. The design includes:

• custom designed 8-way power dividers (covering a 4:1 bandwidth),
• a low band Up Converter,
• an AC/DC power supply,
• LVDS interface,
• RF amplifiers on inputs and outputs,
• custom design equalizers for slope correction,
• FPGA board for control and status (Built in Test) monitoring

The entire assembly is housed in a 2U rack mount assembly, saving precious rack space. The full frequency coverage is 0.5 to 18 GHz. The first unit will be delivered in September 2015.

Great News! 2nd Party Survey for ISO 9001:2008 and ESD Certification Approved!

Great News again! R. A. Wood Associates has received approval by Lockheed Martin for ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (2nd Party survey), and Electrostatic Discharge Control (ESD). This "no exceptions" survey endorses our quality process and procedures. Thanks to everyone involved who helped to make this become a reality! Bob Wood

Happy Holidays from all of us at R. A. Wood Associates!

We wish all our customers and vendors a wonderful and healthy Holiday Season. Thank you to our vendors for delivering high quality products to us on time, and thank you to our customers for letting us provide great products and services to you. We look forward to a great New Year with each of you!

R. A. Wood Associates receives production order for 144 wideband Microwave Tuners

Another endorsement of our quality, great design, and determination to maintain low cost for our customer.

New Capabilities and Accomplishments Brochure

We've created a new "Capabilities and Accomplishments" brochure. This brochure highlights our more recent accomplishments, and shows the current focus areas of our business. You can download the new Capabilities and Accomplishments pdf file. We hope this gives you a better idea of what we can possibly do to help your company succeed.

More Microwave Tuners rolling off the Production Line!

Another 13 of our state of the art high dynamic range Microwave Tuners (with integrated synthesizers) are getting ready to be shipped (on time) to one of our customers. The shipment includes our 100th production Tuner, a very exciting milestone! For more information, download the RCT0017 product sheet

RPL0045 Low Band Modules: More orders in process!

LB Modules, Serial No's 32-43, built using our Extreme BW RF Amplifier designs, are on order and being built for our customer. These modules are being deployed in a subsystem on board U.S. Navy submarines.

Some Feedback from One of our Equalizer Customers:

Production Orders for High Dynamic Range Wideband Tuner/Quad Converters

We are currently under contract to build 109 high dynamic range Wideband Tuners/Quad Converters over the next year. These devices feature: The highest dynamic range microwave tuners in the industry Maximum use of surface mount RF/Microwave assemblies for frequencies up to 18 GHz 4 output IF bands to provide 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth We are bringing all our computer automated test software and hardware design expertise into this program to maximize our productivity and provide the lowest cost product to our customer. This is the improved RCT0017B Wideband Tuner/Quad Converter, which is the result of 18 months of development improvements from our original RCT0017 model.

Automated RF/Microwave Test Station

A 2nd general purpose automated RF/Microwave Test Station was designed and built by R. A. Wood Associates. The purpose was to provide automated test and device characterization to: 10 MHz - 18 GHz test range as built with capability to expand up to 20 GHz Reduce manual test time Eliminate errors in recording of results Increase throughput Eliminate manual RF connections and DC connections in mid-test Provide automated test reports Save test results electronically in a database structure The Automated RF/Microwave Test Station includes: DAQ/Switch Unit Three programmable power supplies Signal Generator Spectrum Analyzer Table/Work Surface Rack Mount Computer Monitor LabVIEW Software utilities to support setting up the Spectrum Analyzer and Signal Generator, retrieving data from the Spectrum Analyzer, controlling the RF Switch/DIO Box and other measurement equipment in the Test Station Storage drawer Custom RF Switch/DIO Box provides: Automated RF Switching to 1 of 6 RF Inputs and 1 of 6 RF Outputs up to 18 GHz Oscillators needed for Test Units Digital I/O to control and read digital signals to/from Test Units Relay Switching to read Resistances and switch DC Power to Test Units

New Bench Top RF Switch Digital I/O Test Interface Box

The RF Switch/DIO Box is a custom designed LRU that provides: Automated RF Switching to 1 of 6 RF Inputs and 1 of 6 RF Outputs up to 18 GHz Oscillators needed for Test Units Digital I/O to control and read digital signals to/from Test Units Relay Switching to read Resistances and switch DC Power to Test Units Bench top or Rack mount We have built 5 of these for our own automated test stations. The design is universal and can be used for multiple test applications.

RPL0103 Low Freq Wide Band RF SubAssembly Designed and 17 Delivered

RPL0103 Low Frequency Wide Band RF SubAssembly features: Wide Freq bandwidths ~DC-3GHz Uses New R.A.Wood Associates designed amplifiers with new 50% smaller M06 amplifier packages Used as part of a Subsystem, deployed on Navy vessels 14 built and delivered on time Provides 9 output ports for downstream equipment

R. A. Wood Associates is approved for ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (2nd Party) and ESD Control!

Great News! R. A. Wood Associates has received approval by Lockheed Martin for ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (2nd Party survey), and Electrostatic Discharge Control (ESD). This puts us in a better position to deliver the highest quality products to our customers. Thanks to everyone involved who helped to make this become a reality! Bob Wood