Stephen R. Nelson

Stephen R. Nelson is a Founder of ENGIN-IC and has been with the company since October 2014; he serves as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Steve joined Texas Instruments in 1979, focusing on the design of GaAs transistors and MMICs for military applications in radar, EW, and communications systems with the design of HBT RFICs and power amplifiers for cell phones and radios. He was the external foundry manager and engineering manager for TI’s Microwave GaAs Products (MGP). Key accomplishments included the first GaAs MMICs inserted into U.S. military hardware systems including the HARM missile. In addition, he was responsible for the first wideband 0.5-W and 1-W wideband GaAs power amplifiers for EW platforms and decoys, and insertion of custom MMICs into a wide range of NASA / JPL probes, and military satellites. By 1997 more than 70% of the world’s communication satellites contained TI GaAs MMICs from Steve’s GaAs operations. Steve joined REMEC in 2000, and was VP, IC Design for the Defense and Space group for 14 years managing and designing MMIC’s for both military and commercial systems. Steve and his team developed wideband time delay MMICs and wideband transmit/receive MMICs for the Air Force and many SIGINT / EW platforms, as well as radar MMICs for various military programs. Steve is proficient in design for many foundry processes including GaAs, GaN, SiC, InP, and BiCMOS. Steve has 10 patents and has authored / coauthored more than 60 technical papers for technical symposiums including MTT and GOMAC. He graduated from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 1977 (BSEE) and attended graduate school at Rolla and UT-Dallas.