C-COM Receives Semiconductor Funding

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., a leading global provider of commercial grade mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced today that it has been awarded $412,550 funding grant over 2 years from ISED Canada under the CMC/FABrIC program.

Managed by CMC Microsystems, FABrIC is a five-year, $223 million initiative to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors.

The project entitled “High Efficiency Beamforming IC and Intelligent Beam-forming Antenna Modules for Satellite IoT and ESA Terminals” aims to develop next generation integrated circuits which will be used in the C-COM designed Ka-band electronically steered phased array antennas as well as for satellite based IoT applications.

This project was one of 5 awarded to companies based in the province of Ontario. The total investment by all parties in this project is $2.46 million over 2 years.

“We are grateful to FABrIC, CMC Microsystems and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for this financial assistance,” said Dr. Leslie Klein, President and CEO of C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. “This grant will allow C-COM to enter a new vertical market with a market potential of multiple billions of dollars and at the same time provide the company with its own enhanced Ka-band semiconductor IC technology, which will make our flat panel electronically steered antennas more cost effective and better performing.”

 8-Channel Analogue Beamformer Tx and Rx Integrated Circuits

​​Mandated to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors. FABrIC lowers barriers faced by Canadian companies developing semiconductor manufacturing processes and internet-connected products and services for export into global markets. Focused on four core technologies: quantum, photonics, compound semiconductors and MEMS, it offers targeted funding for Fabrication Process and Product Development. Its training, IP registry and repository, design and prototyping services and Quantum Readiness programs support innovation and revitalize the domestic ecosystem.

​FABrIC forcefully connects the semiconductor sector into Canada’s major industrial performers: advanced manufacturing, agriculture, aerospace & defence, the auto sector, cleantech, MedTech and mining & natural resources to amplify this country’s economic performance. Managed by CMC MIcrosystems, FABrIC is an Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) investment.