Partnership Overview
The research of the Emerging Radio Systems Group (EmRG) is supported by Canada’s federal and provincial funding agencies and by companies in the information and communication technology sector.
EmRG welcomes new partnerships with academia and industry on the research challenges of next-generation wireless and satellite communication. Partners benefit from:
- collaborative development of intellectual property
- opportunities to recruit qualified, industry-ready graduates
- timely insight into the current state and future challenges of communication technology research
- access to an established network of academic and industrial stakeholders
EmRG thanks its private- and public-sector partners, listed below.
C-COM Satellite Systems develops mobile satellite antenna systems for broadband access on the move. The group works with C-COM on phased-array antenna systems for next-generation Ka-, Q- and V-band mobile satellite communication, and on anti-jamming for low-Earth-orbit terminals.
Past Partners
Skyworks Solutions designs and manufactures high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for wireless and infrastructure markets. Skyworks supported the group’s work on high-efficiency millimetre-wave power amplifiers and integrated transceivers, and endowed the Chair in Wireless Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits and Systems.
Keysight Technologies makes electronic test and measurement instruments and software for the wireless, aerospace and semiconductor industries.
Ericsson provides communications technology — network equipment, software and services — to mobile operators worldwide.
Focus Microwaves develops and manufactures high-end semiconductor device test instrumentation and is a major supplier of load-pull and noise tuner systems.
Freescale Semiconductor provided embedded processing solutions for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. It merged with NXP Semiconductors in 2015.
BlackBerry, the Waterloo company whose smartphones helped define mobile communication from 1999, now provides cybersecurity and embedded software.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funds university research, and the training of students and postdoctoral fellows, in the natural sciences and engineering.
Ontario’s Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science supported research, commercialization and innovation in the province, working with universities, colleges, hospitals and business to bring new technologies and products to market.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funds the laboratories and equipment that researchers need, through a competitive and independent merit review.
Since 1984, CMC Microsystems has worked with researchers and industry across Canada’s national design network, providing access to tools, technologies and expertise for designing, prototyping and manufacturing innovations in microsystems and nanotechnology.
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is the Government of Canada’s research and technology organization. Working with clients and partners, it provides innovation support, strategic research, and scientific and technical services.
The Poly-Grames Research Center at Polytechnique Montréal is one of the largest academic research centres in radio-frequency, microwave, millimetre-wave and microwave-photonics engineering.