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Anokiwave, Inc. is a privately owned and independent company incorporated in 1999 and located in San Diego, CA, USA. Anokiwave offers analysis, design and manufacturing consulting services for RF, microwave and mm-wave circuits. Our design capabilities range from DC to 100GHz. We specialize in providing designs to our customers with reduced overall cost that are timely and successful in the commercial market. Anokiwave’s goal is to provide first pass success through the use of EM simulators, system simulations and modern microwave circuit design methods. Our customers range from publicly traded companies to small start-ups from differing geographical locations

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Nitin Jain, Ph.D.
CTO

Nitin Jain received the B.Tech degree (in Electronics) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1986, and MS and Ph.D. (in Solid State Electronics) from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY USA in 1989 and 1991 respectively. His Ph.D. work focussed on MESFET, pHEMT and diode-gate MESFET control devices for which he received the IEEE graduate student fellowship award in 1990.

From Sept. 1991 to Oct. 1998, he worked at Corporate R&D, M/A-Com Lowell as Principal and Sr. Principal Engineer. At M/A-Com, his work focused on commercial use of EM simulators, passive and active circuit modeling, multi layer PCB modeling, high power PIN switches, mm-wave circuit and mm-wave module development. He has worked on various commercial mm-wave projects including design and production of LMDS receiver at 28 GHz and design of 24 GHz collision avoidance Radar. He was also the technical lead of a team that designed and conceived the single piece Radar module for 77-GHz ACC application. From Oct. 1998 to Oct 2000, he was with the ECE department of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India as Asst. Professor.

Since Oct. 2000, he has been working in a start-up - Anokiwave Inc, San Diego CA - where he is consulting and designing circuit for various customers. His current interests include mm-wave circuits, mm-wave modules, Silicon and GaAs MMIC circuits, EM simulations, and passive circuit modeling and design. He has over 20 publications in international conferences and journals and has six US patents. Nitin can be contacted at nitin@anokiwave.com.

 
 

Quality Policy

  • We shall protect our customer need for privacy and IP protection to the highest level possible but at the minimum of the same level as we protect our own sensitive information.
  • We shall recognize and respect our customers' right to receive quality products and services, on time and within budget.
  • We shall endeavor to exceed our customers' expectations such that Anokiwave becomes their 'Natural Choice' for repeat business.
  • We shall strive constantly to improve our standards of quality and productivity.
  • We shall achieve this in an atmosphere of fairness, integrity, dignity and courtesy towards customers, suppliers, employees, investors and competitors
 
 

Simulation Packages

Following is a partial list of the state-of-the-art design and analysis software and computer hardware used at Anokiwave.

 
 

FAQs--Frequently Asked Questions about IP

  1. I am worried about sharing my companies IP with Anokiwave Inc. What and how does Anokiwave prevent our IP from being passed on to our competitors?

    Answer: Our non-disclosure agreement is one of the most stringent in the industry. We adhere to that very strict and have high standard of confidentiality. Inside Anokiwave, information is given on need to know basis. Paper publications for advertisement and career advancement are done with consent of our customers and often with them as active authors. In addition to maintain clear separation of IP it is our current policy not to undertake similar projects from two differing customers simultaneously. Since we are small this works well.

  2. But surely you must be using the material learnt from project A for company X in project B for company Y?

    Answer: No. We only use publicly available knowledge and analysis techniques that are available in literature to do your design or problem. IP of company X developed under project A (tangible or otherwise including design methodology exclusively developed for company X) will never be compromised. If the solution methods is same for the two project than it has to be available publicly from a third source.

  3. But you have developed your own IP?

    Answer: Yes. Usually these IP have come out of work done on known problems. Often a customer has even economically supported to find a solution.

  4. Ok. Is there anything more that you do to protect us?

    Answer: There are a number of consultants who have filled key needs in the specialty design and microwave business. Our services are somewhat similar yet different. As a team working with you we are more like an offsite but equipped design team and with a long term relationship. It is well known that when a technical Employee moves from one company to another he/she carries a lot of company secrets. Compared to this scenario we provide our customer much better protection: (1) strictest of NDA and (2) a permanency of relationship. Some of our customers have been surprised at how non-forthcoming we have been with regards to even the most easily available information. We fully recognize that our business model depends on bringing value to our customer and on protecting IP.
 
 

Our Publications and Patents

Patents
  1. US patent No. 6,396,363: Planar transmission line to waveguide transition for a microwave signal; A. Alexanian, N. Jain, T. Budka.
  2. US patent No. 6,201,454: Compensation structure for a bond wire at high frequency operation; N. Kinayman and N. Jain.
  3. US patent No. 6,133,805: Isolation in multi-layer structures; N. Jain, J. S. Atherton; P. J. Schwab and J. H. G. Wells.
  4. US patent No. 6,087,907: Transverse electric or quasi-transverse electric mode to waveguide mode transformer; N. Jain.
  5. US patent No. 6,064,286: Millimeter wave module with an interconnect from an interior cavity; B. Ziegner, R Sletten, N. Jain, S. R. Brown.
  6. US patent No. 5,877,037: Process for reducing bond resistance in semiconductor devices and circuits; Matthew F O'Keefe, Joel L. Goodrich, Donald Cordeiro, Nitin Jain.
  7. US patent No. 5,852,771: Mixer with two diodes including DC coupled IF; N. Jain and S. Doyle.
  8. US patent No. 5,107,152: Control Component for a three-electrode device; N. Jain, D. Fryklund, and R. Gutmann.
Invited Papers and Presentations
  1. I. Gresham, A. Jenkins, N. Jain, N. Kinayman, A. Khalil, T. Buber, J-P Lanteri, " System on Chip at mmWave", IEEE MTT-S Symposium Workshop, Seattle, June 2002.
  2. N. Jain, "mm-wave RF Modules for Automotive Radar (invited)", Radar Symposium India, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Dec. 17, 1999.
  3. N. Jain and P. Onno, “Methods of Using Commercial Electromagnetic Simulators for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuit Design and Optimization” (Invited Paper), IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT-45, pp. 724-746, May 1997.
  4. N. Jain, “Automated Circuit Design Using Commercial EM Simulators,” IEEE MTT-S Workshop, 1995.
  5. N. Jain, “Microwave Circuit Design Utilizing efficient use of Electromagnetic Modeling of Circuit Ele-ments”, (invited), Microwave and RF 95, Wembley Conference and Exhibition Center London, UK, pp. 17-22, Oct 1995.
  6. N. Jain, “Engineering Applications of Electromagnetic Field Solvers,” IEEE MTT-S Workshop Notes WMFA, Engineering Applications of Electromagnetic Solvers, pp. 61-77, 1994.

Other Publications

  1. Rajanish, P. Onno, N. Jain, C. Weigand, P. McIntosh, B. Rizzi, K. Izzac “High Harmonic-rejection Matching Filters for Quad-band Power Amplifiers”, Microwave Journal, May 2006.
  2. N. Kinayman, C. Ewarappa, N. Jain, A. Buckle, "A novel surface-moutable millimeter-wave bandpass filter", IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 12, pp. 76-78, March 2002.
  3. Nitin Jain and Noyan Kinayman, “A Novel Microstrip Mode To Waveguide Mode Transformer and it Applications” IEEE MTT-Symposium, 2001.
  4. I. Gresham, N. Jain, T. Budka, A. Alexanian, N. Kinayman, B. Ziegner, S. Brown, and P. Staecker, “A Compact, Manufacturable 77 GHz Radar Module for Commercial ACC Applications”, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, January 2001.
  5. Rajanish and T. S. Vedavathy, "A deterministic propagation model for the microcellular environment using multiple two-dimensional planes", International Journal of Electronics, pp.1205-1224, Dec. 2001.
  6. N. Jain, “A Novel Circuit Method for Designing Precession Termination”, Applied Microwave Journal, December 2000.
  7. I. Gresham, N. Jain, T. Budka, A. Alexanian, N. Kinayman, B. Ziegner, S. Brown, and P. Staecker, “A 76-77GHz Pulsed-Doppler RADAR Module for Autonomous Cruise Control Applications”, 2000 IEEE MTT-Symposium International Symposium Digest, Boston MA , pp. 1551-1554, June 2000.
  8. N. Jain, “Designing commercially viable mm-wave modules” 2000 IEEE MTT-Symposium International Symposium Digest, Boston MA, pp. 565-568, June 2000.
  9. Rajanish and P.W. Baier, "C/I Balancing under Limited Power Dynamics for JD-CDMA" 2000 IEEE VTS Fall Vehicular Technology Conference, , pp. 370-75, 24-28 Sep, 2000.
  10. N. Kinayman and N. Jain, "Automatic And Accurate Lumped-model Generation of Millimeter Wave Passive Components Using EM Simulator" European Microwave Conference, Oct 1999.
  11. S. Doyle, N. Jain, A. Eskandarian, F. Kolak, J. McKenna, S. Brown and Z. Bogan, "Design and Manufacturing of an LMDS CPE Receiver", 1999 Emerging Technologies Symposium on Wireless IEEE Communications and Systems, Dallas, TX, April 12, 1999.
  12. N. Jain and D. Wells, “Design of DC-to-90GHz Resistive Load," IEEE Microwave and Guide wave Lett. Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 69-70, Feb. 1999.
  13. N. Jain and B. Brown, “Dispersion Characteristics of Microstrip Transmission Line on Glass Microwave IC”, IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters Vol. 7 No. 10, pp. 344-346, Oct. 1997.
  14. N. Jain and P. Onno, “High Power 6-18GHz Switch in a Channelized Microstrip Medium”, 1996 IEEE MTT-Symposium International Symposium Digest, San Francisco CA, pp. 955-958, June 1996.
  15. N. Jain and P. Onno, “Efficient Use of Commercial Electromagnetic Simulators for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits”, International Journal of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 302-323, May 1995.
  16. P. Onno, N. Jain, J. Goodrich and C. Souchuns, “High Power 6-18GHz Transfer Switch Using HMIC”, 1994 IEEE MTT-Symposium International Symposium Digest, San Diego, pp. 79-82, May 1994.
  17. P. Chinoy, N. Jain, P. Li, J. Goodrich, and C. Souchuns, “Manufacturing of Low-Loss Microwave Circuits Using HMIC Technology,” 1994 IEEE MTT-Symposium International Symposium Digest, San Diego, pp. 1137-1140, May 1994.
  18. R. H. Caverly and N. Jain, “Modeling GaAs PIN diodes for Microwave and Millimeter Wave Applications”, European Microwave Conference, Canes, France, 1994.
  19. N. Jain, R. J. Gutmann and D. Johnson, “Transient RF Signals During the Switching of MESFET Control Devices”, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT-39, pp. 109-117, Feb. 1991.
  20. N. Jain and R.J. Gutmann, “Broadband GaAs MESFET control Devices for MMICs,” International Conference on Millimeter-wave and Microwave (ICOMM-90) Dehradun, India, Dec., 1990.
  21. N. Jain and R. J. Gutmann, “FET Switching Below 50 MHz at 1 Watts,” Applied Microwave, pp. 100-108, Summer 1990.
  22. N. Jain and R. J. Gutmann, “Modeling and Design of GaAs MESFET Control Devices for Broadband Application,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT-38 pp. 109-117, Feb. 1990.
  23. N. Jain, R. J. Gutmann, D. Fryklund, and W. Moroney, “Low Distortion GaAs MESFET Control Compo-nents for Baseband Applications,” Eleventh Annual GaAs IC Symposium, , pp. 169-172, Oct. 1989.
  24. R. J. Gutmann, N. Jain, M. Schindler, M. Miller, and K Simon, “Comments on GaAs MESFET Baseband-to-Microwave Passive Switches,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, MTT-37 pp. 1154-1155, July 1989
 
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