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Since 2007 · Brive-la-Gaillarde · France
Excellence in RF
& electronics.
Design and manufacture of RF front-ends, microwave systems and components.
LPKF PCB prototyping solutions.
2007Founded in Brive-la-Gaillarde
480+Customers in Europe and the Maghreb
INOGYROJoint laboratory with CNRS and XLIM
20+IEEE publications
Engineering
Your RF partner, from design to delivery
Front-ends, test benches, RF and microwave systems, circuits and components, analog and digital functions: we design, simulate, build and measure your RF subassemblies for radar and telecommunications, civil or military.
What we design
RF front-ends
Transmit and receive chains, switch matrices, integrated subassemblies and test benches.
How we work
3D electromagnetic and circuit simulation (CST, ADS), mechanical design (SolidWorks), rapid prototyping of our own circuits on LPKF systems, characterization in our lab and on XLIM’s PLATINOM platform.
Defense, space, aeronautics, telecoms, EMC, medical and research: collaborative projects, co-development or fully independent projects.
Selective distribution. To complement our designs, we represent a few leading European and North American manufacturers in France for niche components we know well: microwave absorbers, amplifiers, waveguides, rotary joints…
INOVEOS product · IEMI protection
DAEM — Electromagnetic Activity Detector
An intentional electromagnetic attack can disable an infrastructure in a few microseconds, and its effects look just like an ordinary failure. The DAEM makes these events visible: it monitors the spectrum continuously, raises the alarm in real time and records, for every pulse, the quantities needed for analysis.
50 MHz – 10 GHzMonitored band
4 sub-bandsAnalyzed simultaneously
20 kV/mMeasurable field
4 kmOptical alarm relay
Applications: critical infrastructure monitoring, detection of sabotage and hybrid attacks, electronic warfare threat watch, ruling out (or confirming) attacks behind unexplained failures.
Manufactured under license and co-owned with CEA.
Research · INOGYRO joint lab
XLIM shares joint laboratories with CEA, Thales, Safran… and INOVEOS.
Co-directed with CNRS and XLIM since 2016, INOGYRO carries our research on gyromagnetic components. In all, INOVEOS has more than 20 IEEE publications and a patent co-filed with CEA.
Distributor since 2012
PCB prototyping solutions
Exclusive distributor of LPKF rapid prototyping solutions for France, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. You bring your prototyping in-house; we support you from choosing the right solution to integrating it into your lab.
Why bring your prototyping in-house?
D01 week2 weeks3 weeks4 weeks
OutsourcedPO
Manufacturing and delivery: 1 to 2 weeks
V1 tests
New order: 1 to 2 weeks
V2 tests
V1 tested
V2 tested
V3 approved
Design frozen
In two weeks, three versions designed, milled, tested and corrected in-house: the design is frozen before the first outsourced batch even reaches the test bench. Scale in working days, typical outsourcing lead times.
No minimum order
One board, or several at once.
One board, or several at once.
From weeks to hours
A change, a test, right away.
A change, a test, right away.
Your know-how stays with you
Your files never leave the lab.
Your files never leave the lab.
Multilayers under control
Where a single outsourced prototype can cost thousands of euros.
Where a single outsourced prototype can cost thousands of euros.
Our own experience
“Prototyping our own circuits is at the heart of our “fail fast” culture: make mistakes often, but make them quickly. An idea in the morning, a board milled in the afternoon, a measurement the next day. That is the pace we invite you to adopt.”
From design file to assembled board
STEP 01
Structuring
LPKF ProtoMat (mechanical) · LPKF ProtoLaser (laser & hybrid)
Mechanical milling or laser structuring, straight from your design files: two complementary technologies, to be chosen according to your materials, feature sizes and volumes.
Installation and trainingOn-site commissioning, getting started, dedicated training (multilayers, through-hole plating, pockets). Technicians trained in laser safety for laser solutions.
Maintenance and supportPreventive and corrective maintenance, on site or at our premises, development of special process parameters, hotline.
Consumables and partsTools, backing plates, FR4 and Rogers substrates, multilayer kits, spare parts. Tooling guide (PDF, in French)
One team, one roofAbout ten engineers and technicians who design, prototype and measure together in Brive-la-Gaillarde.Visit the lab →
Brive, at the source of France’s “Microwave Valley”
- 1940Telecommunications electronics settles in Brive, followed by Philips, Thales, Exosens…
- 2007INOVEOS is founded as a distributor of RF power components.
- 2008Takeover of HDA’s gyromagnetic component design and manufacturing activities, themselves inherited from IMO.
- 2012Exclusive distribution of LPKF rapid prototyping for France, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia; Mohammedia office opens.
- 2014R&D moves to CIRE in Limoges, alongside XLIM, the technology resource center CISTEME and ALPHA-RLH.
- 2016Launch of the joint laboratory INOGYRO (ANR LabCom).
- 2017Ten years: an anniversary logo milled on our own LPKF systems.
- 2024Move into our new premises in the PEBO business park, Brive.
They trust us
“Expertise and responsiveness are the two main qualities that characterize INOVEOS.”
Articles
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Our partners
- XLIMResearch institute, CNRS – University of Limoges
- Lab-STICCLaboratory of information, communication and knowledge science and technology
- CISTEMETechnology resource center in electronics
- ALPHA – RLHCompetitiveness cluster for lasers and microwaves (Route des lasers et des hyperfréquences)
They have supported our projects
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region
- ANRFrench National Research Agency
- ANRTFrench National Association for Research and Technology
- AIDFrench Defense Innovation Agency
- Bpifrance
- ESAEuropean Space Agency
A microwave project, or a need for prototyping equipment?
+33 5 87 49 80 20 · infos[a]inoveos.com
