About Our Company

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Баталов The company was founded in 1987 on the basis of the Avtomatika R&D Institute and the Central R&D Technological Institute as a centre of computer-aided design of specialized VLSI of the USSR Ministry of Communications Industry.
First name of company was a "Special design and technological bureau Progress".
First director of company – Boris Batalov (1938 – 1989), Doctor of Science, professor, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since 1990 – "Progress Microelectronic Research Institute" (Progress MRI).

Since 1994 – Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Progress MRI”.ince November 2012 – Joint Stock Company – JSC “Progress MRI”.

Since 1989 the company has been headed by Vladimir Nemudrov, Honoured orker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Science, professor, Academician of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation and international academies of communications and informatization.

The Institute was the first in Russia (1994) to develop and design ASIC on the basis of submicron technologies (Gold Medal of the Eureka ‘94 Exhibition, Brussels).

Our ASICs are used in satellite communications modems, ATM equipment, PCM equipment, radars, satellite navigation, mobile radiotelephonic communications, intra-area and backbone communication networks.

Since 2004, the Institute is a cross-industry design centre of SoC (System on Chip) VLSI. The Institute is the initiator and coordinator of creation of a national infrastructure of VLSI design centres and equipment of all levels.

The Institute’s hardware-software complex can meet the VLSI and equipment design challenges at a most advanced level.

Since 2009 the Institute is a member of the Russian Engineering Union, an All-Russia public organisation.
Since February 2013 the Institute is a member of the non-profit League of Assistance for Defence Enterprise.
The Institute has a Council of Young Scientists and Specialists./p>

The Institute has introduced a Quality Management System (QMS).

Many Institute employees were awarded government decorations.

Today “Progress MRI” is the leading design centre of the Russian Federation, the prime contractor for a number of government programmes, a VLSI System on Chip cross-industry design centre, a developer and manufacturer of GLONASS/GPS navigation receivers and microelectronic devices.

Progress MRI offers a range of services for the customer:

SHF multifunctional monolithic ICs for transmit-receive channels and SHF VLSI radio paths on silicon-germanium heterojunction structures greatly surpass their gallium arsenide counterparts in the level of integration, cost and power consumption;
Matched-filter VLSI on 4096 samples for extraction and processing of ultra-weak signals in the radio and sonar equipment, as well as the processing of ultra-wideband signals in communications, identification and radio-electronic warfare equipment;
Basic crystals for the development of a semi-custom System on Chip VLSI with a high-performance processor core and reconfigurable architecture for highly reliable systems, including radiation-resistant systems;
GLONASS/GPS receivers and antennas;
Unified microelectronic modules;
Development and delivery of specialized VLSI (ASIC) on the Customer’s technical specifications with design rules of up to 60 nm.

Progress MRI provides a full range of services – development, prototype production and serial product supply.
Our main technology partners:

Mikron plant, Zelenograd, Russia;
Angstrem plant, Zelenograd, Russia;
Integral plant, Minsk, Belarus;
X - FAB, Erfurt, Germany;
IHP, Frankfurt, Germany;
TSMC, Taiwan;
UMC, Taiwan;
Silterra, Malaysia;
PGC (Progate Group Corporation), Taiwan;
Faraday, Taiwan;
Key ASIC, Inc. Malaysia etc.