Other opportunities for collaboration

Spin-off creation

  • Lumoza, 2009, commercializing large area screen-printed electronics.
  • Pepric, 2009, developing sensitive in-vivo molecular and functional imaging for pharmaceutical applications. Pepric's technology is based on direct imaging of magnetic labels.
  • MagCam, 2009
  • M4S, 2007, a fabless semiconductor company developing multi-mode, multi-band RF devices
  • Trinean , 2007, microfluidic optical lab-on-chip systems for the biotech and life sciences market.
  • Essensium , 2005, developing microelectronic solutions for wireless sensor networks and system-on-chip/system-in-package technologies.
  • Gemidis , 2004, high-contrast integrated microdisplay systems for high-resolution projectors.
  • Magwel, 2003, simulation software for high-frequency electromagnetic behavior of integrated passives and interconnect structures.
  • Vivactis , 2003, intelligent screening services for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry.
  • PowerEscape, 2003, EDA tools for power-efficient design of digital data-intensive systems.
  • Photovoltech, 2001, production of photovoltaic cells.
  • XenICs , 2000, developing and commercializing high-quality infrared image sensors.
  • Septentrio, 2000, developing and commercializing satellite navigation systems (GPS Glonass).
  • Q-Star Test , IMEC/KHBO spin-off, 1999, commercializing IDDX current monitors.
  • FillFactory (now integrated in Cypress Semiconductor), 1999, commercializing CMOS image sensors.
  • 3E , 1999, engineering office specialized in sustainable energy technology and concepts.
  • AnSem , IMEC/K.U.Leuven (University of Leuven) spin-off, 1998, analog design services.
  • ACUNIA (now integrated in Punch International), 1996, development of a telematics platform.
  • CoWare (now integrated in Synopsis Inc), 1996, hardware/software co-design.
  • Target Compiler Technologies , 1996, retargeteable code generation for design and programming of DSP processors.
  • Sirius Communications (integrated in Agilent Technologies), 1996, satellite communication ICs based on spread spectrum and IMEC design technology.
  • Alphabit (now integrated in Agilent Technologies), 1992, development of CAE software for the design of high-frequency and high-speed electronics.
  • Easics , IMEC/K.U.Leuven (University of Leuven) spin-off, 1992, design of VLSI ASICs.
  • Soltech , 1989, photovoltaic systems based on IMEC’s silk-screen process technology.
  • Frontier Design, (now integrated in ARM Belgium), 1989, development of CAE designsoftware.
  • Cobrain NV – Matrix, (now integrated in Axcelis Technologies Inc.), 1987, optical lithography, etching, and surface treatment.
  • UCB Electronics (since 1993 integrated in JSR Electronics 1993), 1986