News | October 27, 2016

Custom MMIC President And CTO To Speak At The Compound Semiconductor Conference

Source: Custom MMIC

Chelmsford, MA – Custom MMIC, a leading developer of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) is pleased to announce Paul Blount, President and CEO at Custom MMIC, will be presenting at the Compound Semiconductor Conference on Wednesday, October 26th with his talk entitled, “A High Efficiency, Ka-Band Pulsed Gallium Nitride Power Amplifier for Radar Applications.” 

Paul Blount founded Custom MMIC in 2006 and has served as its President and CTO since its inception. He has been instrumental in the creation of 6 MMIC product lines - amplifiers, switches, mixers, attenuators, phase shifters, and multipliers. In 2011, he was awarded the Army Achievement Award for his work in lowering the power dissipation of low noise amplifiers in phased array systems by an order of magnitude.

During his presentation, Mr. Blount will discuss the GaN process overview, circuit design, as well as measured results and production test data of a 6 watt, 35 GHz power amplifier in Room 3 of the Doubletree by Hilton in Austin, Texas at 4:10 p.m.

About Custom MMIC

Custom MMIC is a leading developer of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). Embracing their customers’ challenges, the company offers both a growing family of high-performance MMIC standard products and innovative custom-design services. Their engineering team is highly experienced in a broad range of III-V processes (e.g. GaAs, GaN, InP, InGaP) and has longstanding relationships with the leading foundries. Custom MMIC specializes in RF through millimeter-wave circuits serving diverse markets including wireless and wired communications, satellite, radar systems, cellular infrastructure and instrumentation. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Chelmsford, MA. For more information, visit www.custommmic.com

Company Contact:
John Greichen
Custom MMIC
jgreichen@custommmic.com
978-467-4290

Agency Contact:
Paige Clairmont
Strand Marketing
pclairmont@strandmarketing.com
978-463-0780

Source: Custom MMIC