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The start-up milli IC specializes in innovative design microchips in high frequency.

The Karlsruhe-based IC startup specializes in the development of ASICs – and Vega Grieshaber ‘with the startup’, a radar device with a radar frequency of more than 100 GHz on the clock.

With the two managing directors Esref Turkmen and Alexander Haag, KIT professor Ahmet Cagri Ulusoy is working as one of their three experts in the field of millimeter wave and high-frequency technology. The three switching technicians are known at the Institute for High-Frequency Technology and Electronics (IHE) of the Karlsruhe Institutes of Technology (KIT). As a four-party partner, Vega is involved and contributes as a Messtechnikhersteller for complete stand and printing know-how in this area on a concrete deployment area for the microchips with.

The Vega company has a radar device at 80 GHz with a chip of its own design in the housing. Now higher frequencies should follow. “The chip is a heart radar system”, Thomas Deck, Research and Development Manager at Vega, explains the meaning of ASICs. Those from the start and the starting point to be able to, are an exciting excavation and a great opportunity, to further improve the radar sensors and to advance the technological progress provided. Higher radar frequencies of more than 100 GHz make a narrower abstract shop possible, a rebuilt with an improved focus, higher performance and reduced mechanical components. It is possible to reduce the sensor sensors and the production costs.

milli IC nimmt die Arbeit jetzt auf. If the first market reifen chips are sold, it is possible that they will be fragmented. »Das dauert sicherlich etwa zweieinhalb Jahre«, with Thomas Deck.

The Start-up milli IC with Sitz in Karlsruhe is a founding of the Institutes for High-Frequency Technology and Electronics (IHE) of KIT Karlsruhe and specializes in the design of RF and millimeter-well ICs for sensors and communication systems and focuses on silicon-germanium based technologies.