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Technical / Engineering Services & Consulting

With the current economical conditions worldwide, an increasing number of companies are turning to outside help for developing products - hardware, software, electronics, manufacturing, management, and research. There is more independent talent available now as well because a lot of highly skilled people are out of work. The companies on this page and on the pages in the colored links below can do just about anything you might need. Please consider RF Cafe advertisers first.
   Due to the very large number of listings in the
   Technical Services page, they have been broken
   into the following major categories.

Vendor pages list only those companies that actually manufacture products or provide services indicated by the page title. Doing so avoids clutter and maximizes a visitor's likelihood of success in achieving his goal.                - Submit your company's information for a listing -
Please click here to visit the Antenna Factor website
Antenna Factor
Merlin, OR
Tel:  (800) 736-6677
Fax:  (541) 471-6251
Antenna Factor is a world leader in cost-effective  antennas. Standard and custom products are  available to support a wide variety of OEM  applications. Our antennas are designed to offer  maximum performance at a cost-effective price.
Antenna Products Include
Monopole & dipole antennasMonopole - PW, CW, HW, RH, HD, RAH, RCR, RCS, RCL, LP, RA, PMA, PMB, PMC
Dipole - HWR, HW, RCL, RCT, PML, RAF, MHW,  HDP, VDP, DSK, DBD
Embeddable - Chip, SP, JJB, HE Series 
Specialty - JJB, HE, SP, DSK, DBD, Specialty antennasMHW, HDP,  VDP, RMT, RMS, Chip, "Ant Skins" covers 
Dual-Band Hole-Mount - DBD, RMS, RMT Series 
Magnetic Base - Allow for semi-permanent  mounting on metal surfaces 
Fixed point antennasGPS - DBD, UC, ST, SE, PS Series 
Fixed Point - Yagi & Corner Style 
Custom - Tap into our expertise 
Evaluation Systems - Kits for empirical testing

Please click here to visit the GigaLane website.

   GigaLane
Korea  sales@gigalane.com

Tel: +82-31-233-7325 Ext 300

 "Where signal/connectivity is needed, There is GigaLane"

 GigaLane is world leader in the design,
 manufacture, and marketing of RF & Microwave
 connectors, cable assemblies and components.
 We have 10 years experience, database, and
 patents on wideband design & characterization.


 • ISO 9001/14001 Certified
 • ROHS Compliant
 • Worldwide Sales Networks
  
(U.S, Japan, U.K, France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Israel)

RF & MW Connectivity Solutions

 • Precision Adapters (40 GHz)
 • Low loss Cable Assemblies (40 GHz)
 • 2.4 mm, 2.92 mm Connectors (40 GHz, 50 GHz)

 • High Performance End-Launch Conn (26 GHz)

Antenna Connectivity Solutions

 • AMB Connectors
 • RF Switch Plugs & Jacks
 • Coaxial Micro Plugs (CMP) & Receptacle
 • Super Coaxial Micro Plugs (SCMP)

Device & Test Solutions

 • Universal Test Fixture (20 GHz)
 • 3.5 mm & N-Type Calibration Kits
 • Broadband DC Blocks & Bias Tees (26 GHz)
 • TDR Probe


Please click here to visit the Linx Technologies website.
WIRELESS MADE SIMPLE
Linx Technologies, Inc
Merlin, OR
Tel:  (800) 736-6677
Fax:  (541) 471-6251
Linx Technologies is a world leader in cost-effective, easily applied, and highly versatile radio frequency (RF) products. At Linx, we empower companies of all sizes to quickly and cost-effectively add the power of complex technologies, such as RF, to their products.

Our motto summarizes our mission:

"Wireless Made Simple"

   Our Product Line Includes
Linx RF Modules • RF Modules - LR, LC, KH, ES, HP-3,
   evaluation systems, broadband amps
 • OEM Products - MS Family: based on
   the Linx MS encoder & decoder,
   offering over 16,000,000 addresses for
 Linx OEM Products  uniqueness and security. Holtek Family:
   based on Holtek encoders and decoders,
   which are easily addressed with DIP
   switches.
 • Integrated Circuits - LS, MS, HS
   Series, Holtek encoders and decoders
 • Evaluation Systems - Each kit
   contains everything you need to
   evaluate and integrate the Linx module
   & family of your choice.

Click here to visit the American Standard Circuits website American Standard Circuits
West Chicago, IL
630-639-5444
The ASC staff is made up of world class, highly experienced Ph.D. materials scientists, engineers, Six Sigma black belts, and several Six Sigma green belt candidates undergoing training. ASC has state-of-the-art process control systems and our certifications include ISO2001:2008 and military certification (MIL 31032).
We have rigorous SPC controls, automated optical inspection, metallographic cross section and electrical test facilities - providing the QA needed to meet the high standards of our customers.
  • FR4, Teflon, Polyimide & Hybrid Multilayers
  • Processing of all types of Rogers, Taconics,
     Arlon, Gore, & Nelco laminates
  • Metal backed PCBs pre and post bonded
  • In-house plating and precision machining
  • Special technologies and R&D work
  • ENIG, AU-NI, SN, HASL, SMOBC, IM AG
  • 2 patented propriety bonding materials
  • Flex, rigid-flex, mixed dielectrics, metal clad
  • Thermally conductive substrates (CooLam. etc.)
Serving the Military, Aerospace, Industrial, Commercial, Medical, Telecommunications, Computer, Radar, and Transportation Industries

Please click here to visit Radio-Electronics.Com for free tutorials, data and articles.

Radio-Electronics
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1784 455511

 Ian Poole, founder of Adrio Communications
 and prolific author of many technical books and
 articles, presents Radio-Electronics.com:
     The online resource centre for free radio and
         electronics tutorials, articles and data.
Topics Include:
 • Antennas • Cellular Telecoms
 • Satellites • Wireless Technologies
 • Radio History • Test & Measurement
 • Circuits & Design • Electronic Components
 • Radio Receivers • Radio Signal Propagation
 • Latest News & Technology
 • Radio Broadcast Technology

RF/μW Consulting
Orlando, FL 
Phone: 407-298-1869
E-mail: Aooola@aol.com 














RF consultant with over 20 years experience in RF/Microwave research, design and development through 35 GHz.
Extensive experience in radio design at UHF, 900 MHz, and 2.4 GHz ISM bands including DS spread spectrum systems.
Undertake systems design including spur analysis, link budget analysis, and RF Designs for WLAN, blue-tooth, GPS etc.
Complete prototype design of MIC systems, and subsystems such as LNAs, PAs, VCOs, Synthesizers, mods/demods and filters etc. including schematics, and PCB layouts using Genesys-Eagleware.

Adamson Consulting
720-496-4002 / Boulder, CO
Specialists in intellectual properties strategies, product development, safety marks, and onsite electromagnetic measurements.

American Standard Circuits
Manufactures quality rigid, metal-backed and flex printed circuit boards on various types of substrates for a variety of applications.

AnaRFICs
415-670-9541 / San Francisco, CA
Specializing in RFIC and analog IC design services, we are a team of engineers with a wide variety of design skills ranging from communications system design to analog and RF design at the chip and board level. We partner with several digital design teams to offer a full and cost effective SOC turnkey solution in CMOS, BiCMOS or bipolar. A complete analog IC solution can be developed with samples for as little as $30,000. (We also accept smaller consulting jobs.)

Antenna Development Corp
575-541-9319 / Las Cruces, NM
Custom and standard antennas for spacecraft. Specialize in low-gain antennas.

antennas.us
954-0975-2712 / Margate, FL
Antennas for military, mobile radio, GPS, EMS, satellite/terrestrial, ISM, WLAN/Wi-Fi/WiMax, Ham, AM/FM/satellite radio. Cable assembly, connectors, diplexers & filters, software, measurement services.

BKC Consulting Group, LLC
Bedford, NH
home: (603) 488-5781; cell: (510) 326-6314
E-mail: brad.cowan@bkcconsulting.net
I have more than 20 years of design, analysis, and modeling experience with RF, antenna, communications, and EW/SIGINT systems to apply to your project. My time as a consultant is available on a part-time basis.

Chipworks
613-829-0414 / Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
An integrated circuit reverse-engineering company. Curators of the famous Silicon Art collection.

Consult Ed Ellis, LLC
850-476-1858 / Pensacola, FL
Consult Ed Ellis provides consulting services to manufacturers of electronic components and circuits; specializing in capacitors, inductors, resistors, hybrid circuits, and LTCC. Consult Ed Ellis is expert in the formulating and R&D of their materials processes and product development.

Digoria Microwave
519-893-9849 / Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
RF engineering software, information and consulting, specializing in filters (substrate & waveguide) and patch antennas. WR-Connect cool waveguide structure design tool. Corrugated Low-pass Filter Design Workshop.

DSB Scientific Consulting
803-408-2729
Provides cost effective computational chemistry services to help small firms solve chemistry research and development problems and assists management and researchers with computer simulation services including computational chemistry using ab initio, density functional theory or molecular dynamics, highly optimized custom scientific software, high performance computing resources, chemical reaction modeling, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of reactive flows.

EMA Consulting Engineers
859-420-1026 / Orlando, FL
Assists architects, the legal profession,  and the insurance community in the  investigation and redesign of structures. We solve design issues of already designed  buildings and performing damage assessment. Forensic engineering is our specialty.

EMConsulting
301-730-2144 / Hampstead, MD
Engineering consulting firm that specializes in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Whether you call it interference, noise, radio frequency interference (RFI), electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic interference (EMI), electromagnetic environmental effects (EEE, E3, or E3), solving interference problems is not "black magic." By considering basic laws of physics, EMConsulting will apply 30 years of experience to provide effective engineering solutions to prevent or eliminate electrical interference problems in your products.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stubenner

Gaddon Consultants
0044 (0)1226 766999 / Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
RF Training, RF ATE Specification and Design. Gaddon Consultants can help you in your RF, Avionics and ATE projects. Recently Gaddon Consultants have added a training aspect carrying out RF basic and specialist courses for engineers and management.

GIS Consortium
Geographical Information Systems (GIS), automated mapping and facility management, complete range of data services including remote sensing, image processing, database update, geocoding & data conversion, digital maps, digital elevation models (DEM), land use / clutter / landcover, linear / vector / transportation features, height / terrain, slope / aspact maps in all leading industry data formats like ArcInfo, SHP, MapInfo TAB, Autocad DWG/DXF Parcel Mapping and Cadastral Mapping, parcel and building databases from satellite and aerial imagery, CAD files data creation, data auditing & consultancy services, process & procedure definition for setting up data conversion / creation services.

Hassel Consult
+45 4010 9804 / Bagsvaerd, Denmark
Consulting for RF design and antenna design with a  strong focus on Design For Manufacture.

Haynes-Bent, Inc
630-845-3316 / Geneva, IL
RF design services that helps businesses get their wireless products and services to market in a timely manner. The main market is design services with specialization in component design of high frequency electromagnetic active and passive circuits.

IHS
800-525-7052 / Englewood, CO
Global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools, and related services to customers in the energy, defense, aerospace, construction, electronics, and automotive industries.

Ion Beam Milling, Inc
603-644-2326 / Manchester, NH
Since 1982 has manufactured thin film circuits for use in the microwave and photonics industries. Dry etch ion beam milling process to ensure a high level of repeatability. An array of standard products are ready to ship and we can create custom circuits to match your drawing. Ion Beam Milling also specializes in services. We can offer photolithography, milling, and/or dicing services to meet your needs. ISO 9001:2000 qualified.

LoKey - data acquisition & control
508-761-5296 /Attleboro, MA
Providing services to establish computerized data acquisition and control systems specializing in LabVIEW programming - Massachusetts & Rhode Island.

Material Solutions LLC
941-485-9073 / Venice, FL
Our focus is on electronic & structural materials & processes, applied materials, & powders including dielectrics and materials systems for high frequency, materials formulation, composites: MMC AlSiC, microsphere, glass and ceramic composites.
Stealth Microwave, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
888-772-7791
Stealth Microwave designs and manufactures linear and ultra-linear power amplifiers for commercial and military applications. Our products range from 300 MHz to 14 GHz with output powers ranging from 1 Watt to 360 Watts.
Proprietary & custom designs offer unmatched linearity, DC power consumption, and all around performance in some of the smallest packages in the industry. Entire product line offered in module, bench top, and 19" rack mount configurations. ISO-9001 certification.
Stealth Microwave - custom SSPA800-1000 MHz (GSM)
  € 1.7-2.3 GHz (PCS/UMTS)
   € 2.0-2.5 GHz (DVB)
    € 2.3-2.5 GHz, 5.7-5.9 GHz (ISM)
Stealth Microwave - bidirectional WLAN amplifier     € 2.5-2.7 GHz (MMDS)
      € 3.3-3.8 GHz (WiMAX, BWA)
       € Bi-Directional 802.11 Amplifiers
        € Wideband
         € Military / Custom
Stealth Microwave - rack-mount amplifier          € RoHS Compliant
           € Lab Units / 19" Rack Mounts
             € TWT Replacement SSPAs

Stealth Microwave is a division of Micronetics


Click to visit the Applied Wave Research website AWR
El Segundo, CA
Tel (310) 726-3000
AWR is a leading supplier of high-frequency EDA products for the design of wireless telecom equipment, semiconductors, high-speed computers, networking systems, automotive mobility systems, & a variety of other products.

Free Trial Downloads Available

Products
AWR Microwave Office• Microwave Office
the industry's fastest growing microwave and RF design platform, revolutionizing the communications design world by providing users with a superior choice.
• Analog Office - the first complete IC design system in over ten years that is specifically architected and optimized from the ground up for next-generation analog and RFIC designs.
AWR's Visual System Simulator (VSS)• Visual System Simulator
a comprehensive software suite for the design of complete, end-to-end communications systems.
• APLAC - APLAC is a foundry-approved circuit simulation technology for highly nonlinear and complex designs.
• Axiem - 3-D electromagnetic simulation

Click to visit Guided Wave Technology By Guided Wave Technology
Denmark
Guided Wave Technology's Coupling Matrix Synthesis (CMS) tool facilitates synthesis of N+2 coupling matrices for Chebyshev bandpass filtering functions, with arbitrary finite-position transmission zeroes.
The CMS tool gives a fast and accurate
overview of:
     ● Insertion loss
     ● Isolation
Click to visit Guided Wave Technology     ● Group delay
     ● Phase
     ● Coupling coefficients
 
versus
 
     ● Filter order
     ● Return loss
     ● Resonator unloaded Q
     ● Transmission zero positions
     ● Topology

Click to visit Guided Wave Technology

Guided Wave Technology
is a microwave filter R&D company,
specialized in development and
production of passive filter
prototypes and series.

Please click here to visit the NuWaves Engineering website.

NuWaves Engineering
Middletown, OH
Tel: (513) 360-0800

 NuWaves Engineering is a premier supplier of
 Radio Frequency (RF) Systems, Subsystems, RF
 Products and Engineering Design Services
 designed to customer requirements.
 We are a turnkey provider for RF/Microwave
 communication custom designs with full project
 management and design responsibilities; taking
 ownership from the conceptual idea to
 production.

Design / Consulting Services

 • Low Noise Designs

• Prototype Development

 • Reliability Analysis

• Distribution Systems

 • RF Amplifiers

• Microwave Techniques

 • Site Surveys

• System Integration

Products

 • Antennas

• Telemetry Transmitters

 • RF Tuners

• Bi-Directional Amplifiers

 • Up/Dn Converters

• Frequency Modulators

 • Low Noise RF Front
   End Amplifiers

• Custom Analog and
   RF Filters

 • Complete RF and Wireless Data Transceivers


Please click here to visit the RF Dude Consulting website

RF Dude
Consulting Services

consulting@RFdude.com
Rochester, NY

    Experience is in medium volume production
   where "design for manufacturing", "design for
   test" and overall solution cost have been very
   important. Please see Lance's resume page for
   more details.

 € Critical design review prep & participation

 € Feasibility studies

 € "Fast and thorough" HF through microwave
    circuit design & analysis, primarily geared
    towards modern wireless communications
    systems, some instrumentation experience

 € Low noise Oscillator and Synthesizer design

 € Detailed circuit design & system architecture

 € Proof-of-concept design and prototyping (LAB)

 € Troubleshooting system level problems (spur
    sources, stability problems, etc.)

 € PC (Windows primarily)/embedded software
   for interfacing to RF hardware (see tools)


Click to visit Sunshine Design Engineering Services Sunshine Design
Engineering Services

760-685-1126 / Ramona, CA

Joe Cahak has 25 years of design engineering and test engineering experience.

Specialties include hardware, CAD and software design with extensive capabilities in process automation, database programming, & graphics.

  ▪ Hardware
  ▪ Bench or Rack
  ▪ Environmental
  ▪ Special Fixturing
▪ Test Interfaces
▪ Signal Processing
▪ Project Management
▪ Device Control Functions
Software Packages & Support Available
PNA Capture© - Test automation tool for the Agilent ENA model Vector Network Analyzer with GPIB interface. Specify, run tests, and generate reports to Excel worksheets, ASCII, S2P, SQL Server/Server Express or Access formats.
ENA Capture© - Test automation tool for the Agilent ENA model Vector Network Analyzer with GPIB interface. Specify, run tests, and generate reports to Excel worksheets, ASCII, S2P, SQL Server/Server Express or Access formats.
- Customization available for PNA/ENA software -
RF Calculator© - Full-featured RF and Electronics computation tool. General electronics, RF and RF Test calculations for design and analysis.

Midland Communications
+44 870 8351000 / Worcestershire, UK
We supply install & maintain Panasonic, Avaya & Mitel phone systems, Sony video conferencing, PA Systems and offer cheaper business phone calls.

Modelithics
888-359-6359 / Tampa, FL
Device characterization, modeling and validation services. Large library of capacitor, resistor, inductor and diode models for CAE. Variety of body sizes and part values. Many application notes.

MindTree
Offshore software development, product engineering and outsourcing services on a global delivery platform.

OnionString.com
This website is intended to help people find experts, consultants and specialists in different fields of engineering. The consultants listed range in size from sole traders to multinationals. I have included companies selling technical expertise along with associated hardware (such as filter designers) but not companies selling complicated items with no associated technical expertise (such as mobile phone suppliers).

Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
978-461-2000 x115 / St. Maynard, MA
Specializes in the design and production of high technology electronic products. Skillful blend of expert hardware and software engineering together with a spirit of creativity and innovation, tempered by the practical concerns of manufacturability, cost consciousness, testability and on-time delivery. Orchid will work with your idea, perform detailed design, construct prototype units, refine the prototype design and manufacture your electronic product.

PCNAlert (acquired by IHS)
626-585-2788 / PasadenaCA
Implements and deploys a common standard for product change and end of life component information; also provides free trial and AML/AVL analysis and RoHS services.

Portelligent
512-338-3600 / Austin, TX
"Technology Intelligence for the Electronics Professional." Teardown reports on consumer products, including cell phones, WLAN and Bluetooth devices, digital cameras, PDAs, etc.

Prismark
631-367-9187 / Cold Spring Harbor,
NY An electronics industry consulting firm, consulted by many of the leading systems houses, semiconductor companies, and the materials, components, and tool companies that enable electronic equipment to be manufactured. These companies use Prismark to plan their tactics and set their strategies in an industry that continues to undergo complex technological and structural change. - Great technology reports (KRB).

Radiofrequency Safety International Corporation (RSI)
888-830-5648 / Kiowa, KS
RF safety training and environmental, RF hazard assessments, noise studies, live and online training, safety programs, MPE analysis, contractor audits and RF/ FCC signage.

Red Mountain Radio LLC
970-325-2158 / Ouray, CO
RF, optical, and microwave hardware design services, as well as Ph. D. level analysis. Our engineers understand the fundamental physics and theory behind radio, radar, and communications, and have the practical work-bench experience required to design market-ready products.

Resolution Engineering, Inc
651-269-2172 / Stillwater, MN
RF/wireless and embedded systems consultants with over 30 years experience designing quality, low-cost devices for wireless control, sensing, and data connectivity. We offer a broad array of contract engineering services, covering technologies such as RFID, Zigbee, and RKE. Our services span the entire development cycle, from design and prototype to worldwide regulatory compliance and production.

Revolution Semiconductor
+90 542 255 4670 / Ankara, Turkey
Founded by Murat Eskiyerli, PhD to offer analog, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuit design consulting services to system and fabless semiconductor companies. RSL, through its international network of affiliates, is able to offer customized and cost-effective services to its diverse client base.

RF Engineering Inc.
416-596-1221 / Toronto, ON, Canada
Wireless design consultants. Specialists in the design and analysis of RF circuits, antennas, and systems. Our group of associates applies it's wealth of knowledge, practical experience, and creativity in the field of wireless technology to solutions for our international clients. 26 GHz laboratory. GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, ISM, RFID, DSP, ZigBee.

RFTek
919-622-4088 / Raleigh, NC
Consulting and contracting services for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Electrostatic Discharge (ESD): design, test and compliance.

Salvage Data Recovery Service
888-212-2002 / Stamford, CT
Hard disk drive recovery service - recovers lost data from damaged drives and storage devices.
 
SavvyPaper
866-804-1505
We’re the Number One provider of Professionally Enhanced Video Resumes SavvyPaper was formed in 2008 by a small group of individuals who wanted to provide a professional edge to the explosion of video resumes appearing on the internet. We loved the fresh, innovative approach of the video resume, but realized the basic video resume was just the beginning. In order to make the utmost positive impression on recruiters and employers, SavvyPaper combines your video resume with key visual indicators broadening the appeal and making the most memorable impression. Our goal at SavvyPaper is to get you that face to face interview. We are able to do this by making your video resume superior to your competition. The only thing worse than not having your own SavvyPaper video resume, is having a poor quality video resume. We are also reaching out to various industries to demonstrate how video "resumes" can be used in their everyday promotions and advertising.

Signal Processing Group, Inc
480-892-1399 / Chandler, AZ
Wireless and analog ASICS and modules. Obsolete parts replacement.

TάV Product Service
+44 (0) 1489 558277 / North Fareham, Hampshire, UK
Independent testing, certification, qualification, training and market access services to a wide range of industry sectors including aerospace, defence, medical & health, radio & telecoms, rail, trade electronics & consumer.

TV Magic, Inc
858-650-3155 / San Diego, CA
Full service broadcast & A/V company specializing in engineering design, integration, equipment sales, service & support for applications from broadcast to production to presentation systems and beyond.

Wave Technology 513-265-5447 / Lebanon, OH
We do contract engineering in ALL phases of electronic engineering and electronic product development. We specialize in electronic product development... nearly anything! RF design, antenna design, antenna measurement, FCC consulting, microcontroller design (Atmel, Freescale, Microchip, Maxim, etc.), assembly & C software coding. Consumer, commercial and military electronics. Lectures, teaching classes and seminars PCB layout, including critical microwave and RF layouts! Initial prototypes to market your idea... need a "proof of principle" model to secure funding?

Wilmer Engineering, LLC
267-625-0417 / Huntsville, AL
RF, EMI & systems engineering consulting. 30 years experience in design, integration, test, project and program management.

Zebryk Engineering
508-764-3855 / Southbridge, MA
Specializing in PIC microcontrollers and RF, we design and build wireless systems. With over 20 years of experience, we can substantially reduce your developmental risks and your time to market. Remote controls, irrigation controls, security systems, RFID, data acquisition, process controls, home automation, RF Telemetry, GPS & AVL, wireless sensors.




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