EMAG Technologies Inc. was founded in 1994 to develop and provide comprehensive and unified modeling, characterization and measurement tools for microwave and RF engineers. The founders of the company originally hailed form the Radiation Laboratory of the University of Michigan. During the last two decades, EMAG has commercialized some of the most advanced research concepts and transitioned them successfully from the laboratory environment into reliable commercial products. Along this journey, we have enjoyed a tremendous level of support from the US Department of Defense (DoD) through millions of dollars of R&D projects and contracts.
Our first simulation software product, EM.Picasso, was developed under funding from the US Army for a project concerned with the analysis and design of large planar phased arrays. In 1999, EMAG was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the sole software developer of the multi-year Reconfigurable Aperture (RECAP) program. The initial funding for the development of EM.Terrano came from DARPA’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. These simulation tools were subsequently parallelized under a multi-year program funded by the DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Office (HPCMO). The integration of our simulation tools as a unified framework (EM.Cube) started in 2004 under several programs funded by the US Army and US Navy. EM.Cube was showcased for the first time in 2008 at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Atlanta, GA.
In 2011, EMAG acquired Beige Bag Software Inc., a developer and supplier of analog and digital circuit simulation software since the mid 90s. This acquisition expanded our product offering to include two circuit simulation tools, B2.Spice and B2.Logic. These products were merged into B2.Spice A/D and later evolved into RF.Spice A/D. We are now able to meet most of our customers’ modeling and simulation needs through our expanded software product portfolio.
In 1999, EMAG launched Gradient LLC with a significant amount of external investment funding to develop integrated antenna systems. Subsequently, EMAG built an in-house computer-controlled anechoic chamber and acquired a wide range of advanced device characterization, measurement and fabrication tools including a 67GHz vector network analyzer, wafer probe station, wire bonding and rapid prototyping milling machines, etc. Over the years, the R&D work on integrated multifunction antennas evolved into wafer-scale micromachined phased arrays and culminated in the development of our VISAT technology. EMAG has been granted 12 US patents on integrated antennas, active phased array systems and related concepts.
In 2002, EMAG spun off Opteos Inc. to focus on the research and development of field measurement systems. Our patented electro-optic (EO) and magneto-optic (MO) probe technologies were originally conceived during the 90s at the University of Michigan’s NASA Center of Excellence for Space Terahertz Technology. The initial funding was received from the US Army to develop an all-fiber-based electro-optic mapping system. In 2004, we negotiated an exclusive license to the University of Michigan’s EO/MO field mapping technology. Opteos Inc. was fully acquired by EMAG in 2010. This acquisition paved the way for the introduction of the NeoScan field measurement system. The development of the 3rd generation NeoScan system was partly funded by the US Air Force, whereby a powerful real-time field measurement capability was implemented for evaluation of the biological and human effects of high power microwave systems.