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"When in doubt...make it stout!"--Frank Magoon

Richard Michalik is President and chief designer of Maguffin Microwave 

We provide Microwaves/RF designs for Consumer, Industrial, and Military communications, personal medical, Radar, and imaging systems.  


In today's economy, a company needs to get real value from its development dollar!  You must juggle time-to-market, limited development budgets, need for a very low cost AND robust design from a cross-functional team, but do not have the personnel to bring it to life.  Try Maguffin Microwave!  We are innovative, fast, and are surprisingly affordable!  These type of projects are our meat and potatoes!  Let us augment your team to achieve a project success.


Our design expertise includes:
·  System design
·  Subsystem design
·  Component level design
·  Cost reduction design
·  Reliability improvement and failure analysis
·  Project or Program management and design team leadership
·  In-house training and systems documentation

Specific design experience includes:
Wireless Communication System designs & performance improvements
High data rate wireless backhaul hardware
Radar receivers, transmitters, and exciters
Broadband EW and ECM components
High resolution microwave position locating for robotics applications
Reducing cost in military electronics, COTS implementation
High sample rate, frequency hopping receivers
Spread spectrum microwave synthesizers
Ultra-low phase noise microwave synthesizers
Oscillator design
Unique antenna designs
Low jitter clock distribution systems
Microwave filters
PIN diode switch matrix
High Power filters and switches
FCC prequalification studies, regulatory issues
High speed and low noise analog electronics
Project Management/System Design--especially for new ventures






Thank you for your interest!

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