About Micram

Micram Microelectronic GmbH is an independent fabless whole-service provider for high performance ASIC solutions. It is a privately owned company, located in a technology park nearby Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany.

Our focus is on power-saving high-speed, high-accuracy, and high-functionality applications in Si, SiGe, III-V (InP, GaAs) bipolar technologies. The range of services is tailored to deliver ASIC solutions, covering the whole ASIC process, from the first design ideas to volume delivery.

Micram employs 15 design engineers supported by high-trained technicians and administration staff, and provides products and services around high-speed, high-performance ASICs: Design&Engineering, Rapid!Prototyping, Test&Measurement as well as Supply Chain Management.

Micram's product development cycle is supported by in-house Rapid!Prototyping and Test&Measurement services, installed in a 2,000 sqft clean room facility.

History

Micram was founded in 1989 as a spin-off of the Center of Microelectronics within Ruhr-University. At that time the focus was on the design of high-speed ICs in silicon bipolar technology.

The company has grown steadily ever since, joined by numerous experts, well known for their work in the field of high-speed circuit design. With the evolving technologies also skills and competence of Micram designers amassed, driven by leading edge projects and continuous R&D work in collaboration with big global companies as well as with the neighbouring RUB.

While in the early days the emphasis was on data transmission and measurement applications at high speed, nowadays the adoption of industrial requirements is a continuously demanding task. Today, we are talking about HIGH PERFORMANCE, a challenging mixture of high speed, high gain, high linearity, high precision, high I/O power, low noise, low cost, SoC, reliability, yield, standardization etc.

When in 1998 everybody started to talk about 40 Gb/s, Micram had already a unique selling position as an independent design house offering superior IP for 40 Gb/s ASICs. E.g., in 2001 the industry's first OC-768 SiGe Ser/Des chipset for SONET/SDH connection systems, developed by Micram, was introduced by a global playing company.

Driven by the customers raising demand, Micram's business concept was expanded from strictly Design&Engineering to also include component manufacturing and supply. Withstanding the trend of outsourcing and focusing on IP provision, 1999 Micram introduced complementary in-house Test&Measurement and Rapid!Prototyping services.

 Mission

We design exceptional high-performance silicon that delivers real competitive advantage for our customers.

Core Values

Micram was founded based on the desire to start business with certain values, objectives, principles and ethics. These will remain throughout our entire work and form our mission statement:

• Micram leads. We are committed to thinking and acting at least one step ahead of the state of the art – we are not interested in being followers, only leaders.
• We believe that making our customers successful is the only way Micram can achieve its own success.
• We understand that every customer is unique and that fully understanding each one is a basic part of our job as a company.
• We believe that any business transaction must create a win-win situation for the customer and for ourselves. There is no such thing as success at the expense of a customer.
• Micram will always uphold the highest standards of honesty, fairness and trustworthiness in all our business relationships.
• We believe our small, focused team and intensely collaborative approach to our work is the key to our innovation and technical excellence.
• Micram will always pursue the very best team members, those that are committed to technical, professional and personal excellence.
• Every member of the Micram team is a respected, valued part of our success. We will always be as committed to the personal success of our team members as we are to the success of our company.