Capabilities
Six capabilities, one discipline — the link budget that sizes the system, the semiconductor, the board, the antenna, the amplifier behind it, and the station that tests it.
Emtera designs and delivers finished, tested RF hardware, and provides the engineering services behind it. Because these six practice areas are engineered under one roof — semiconductor to system — the interfaces between them, where most RF programs lose performance and schedule, are designed, not negotiated.
Antenna Design
Electronically steered arrays and fixed-beam antennas, 300 MHz to 70+ GHz — designed and delivered as finished, tested hardware.
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SSPAs & BUCs
High-efficiency solid-state power amplifiers, BUCs, LNAs, and LNBs — delivered as finished, tested units.
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RF & Microwave PCB Design
RF board design from requirements through measured bring-up — 18-layer RF/mixed-signal stackups, embedded control, and verified performance.
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RF Link Budgets & System Design
The analysis that sizes the hardware — G/T, EIRP, link SNR, beam shapes, and satellite-to-earth coverage maps.
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Automated RF Test Stations
Turnkey automated test stations for RF production and qualification — fixtures, instrumentation, software, and documentation.
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Custom RF Semiconductors
Custom GaAs, InP, and Si designs — power amplifiers, LNAs, phase shifters, and switches — with foundry relationships and full wafer characterization.
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Because all six practice areas live under one roof — semiconductor to system — the hand-offs where most RF programs lose performance and schedule are engineered together, not traded across vendors.
RUGGEDIZED & SPACE-QUALIFIED
Space, airborne, maritime, and land — advanced RF engineering and product development from concept through flight-qualified hardware.
Designed for space environments
- Outgassing and TVAC cycling per NASA-STD-6001
- UV, thermal cycling, solar radiation, atomic oxygen
- 3–10× GEVS random vibration, shock, sine, acoustic
- Pyroshock / SRS qualification
- NASA-STD-6016 materials and process screening
Advanced materials & manufacturing
- Precision CNC — aluminum, titanium, stainless steel
- Composite reflectors and lightweight structures
- Injection molding and photo-etched RF features
- Additive manufacturing — metal and polymer RF structures
- High-frequency tolerance control and thermal stability
Analysis & simulation
- Structural FEA — modal, random vibration, quasi-static
- Thermal analysis, including CTE-driven RF distortion
- Full-wave RF simulation (ANSYS HFSS, CST)
- Multipaction and high-power RF risk assessment
- Mass and stiffness optimization for launch
Standards we build to
- NASA GEVS (GSFC-STD-7000) and NASA-STD-8739 workmanship
- NASA-STD-6012A corrosion control, NASA-STD-6001 outgassing
- MIL-STD-810 environmental, IP67
- IPC J-STD-001ES/JS PCB workmanship
- SpaceX Falcon qualification, Kuiper program, and Airbus specification experience
SERVICES
Emtera works closely with our customers to ensure success — supporting the full product lifecycle from early design, through prototype, and into production.
Ideation and Design
It starts with the physics — a link budget that sizes the whole system before anything is built. Designs are composed from pre-engineered functional blocks with performance predicted from as-measured data.
Prototype and Testing
Semiconductors, boards, antennas, and amplifiers come together under one roof — delivered, tested hardware in 4–6 weeks, with 100% automated test on every module we build.
Production
Validated designs move to volume on the same platform and test stations that built the prototype — fully automated production test, often under one minute per unit.
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