MEC was founded in 2004, as spin-off of Bologna’s and Ferrara’s Universities, in order to
offer to the Italian and European enterprises, the know-how coming from the university
R&D department in the field of microwave electronic components, with a main focus on
MMIC and TR Modules.
The Company’s expertise and core business, are based on the
executive design, lay-out generation, on wafer probe test, on jig electrical & thermal
characterization of MMIC.s and discrete active components. The leading technologies
based on GaAs and GaN semiconductors are used in our projects. A manpower of
fifteen PhD Engineers, with solid background and expertise in MMIC design, make the
strength of our Company. Further, the most advanced software tools , based on ADS ,
Microwave Office Sonnet EM and Ansys TAS, are always available to this design team.
On the base of the excellent results achieved in strategic European projects for Space,
MEC was appointed by UMS ( which is first European GaAs / GaN foundry ) its official
Design House. Since then, a very tight cooperation is in progress with this foundry, which
allows MEC to get early access to each new technology. From its inception, MEC had the
opportunity to develop, for enterprises which are leaders in satellite systems, as Thales
Alenia Space, Selex , and Space Agencies as ESA , CONAE and ASI, very innovative
microwave integrated modules and advanced MMICs, which allowed us to become one
of the preferred European Design Centre for spatial microwave components. The most
known European satellite programmes, to name some : Iridium, Galileo, CosmoSkymed,
SIASGE, Sentinel…etc, board MMIC.s and microwave ybrids in their most critical line-ups,
developed by MEC.
Web: www.mec-mmic.com