Page 108 - IDEF 2017

MKR-IC is an ASIC

design house

specialized in

development of RF,

analog and mixed-

signal custom

integrated circuits

(ICs) to address

the needs of its

Barbaros ŞEKERKIRAN customers

Manager

Mikroelektronik / MKR-IC

MKR-IC is an integrated circuit design company As a subsidiary of a major defense company,
1
focusing on high speed data converter design, bulk of our designs demand performance at
radio frequency (RF) applications and millimeter state-of-the-art and beyond state-of-the-
wave design with expertise on both analog and art level that is customary in the defense
digital realms. industry. Building on this expertise MKR-IC has
great potential to develop integrated circuits
Our company has its roots in the design center for telecommunications systems, industrial
established in 1992 under the umbrella of the applications, automotive industry and consumer
ITU-ETA Foundation in Istanbul, to provide electronics.
2
ASIC solutions, principally to local electronics
companies, forming a bridge with the worldwide Being located in İstanbul Technical University
electronics industry. (ITU) campus we have close collaboration with
scientific community both within ITU and in
The design center was transformed into other leading academic institutions.
“Mikroelektronik Research Development Design
and Trade Ltd. Company” in 2004 as a result Several of our projects have received funding
of a joint initiative by ITU-ETA Foundation and from TUBİTAK -The Scientific and Technological
AKÇASU Software Company (a subsidiary of OEA Research Council of Turkey; some of which
International,Inc.) have been successfully completed while others
are still on-going. MKR-IC is a participant in a
In 2010, buying all the shares except for the EUREKA network project together with several
part belonging to ITU-ETA Foundation, ASELSAN European companies and institutions that are
became the main shareholder. world leaders in their respective fields.

108 TURKISH DEFENCE INDUSTRY