Celestrius History
Celestrius AG is a spin-off company of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2007. The company has evolved out of a joint research project on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications between the Communication Technology Laboratory and the Integrated Systems Laboratory of ETH Zurich, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei.
Celestrius Technology
In MIMO wireless systems, multiple antennas at both the transmitting and receiving side of the link are used to boost the achievable data rate, without having to spend additional precious spectrum or transmission power. Because of the breakthrough performance gains possible, MIMO technology, which was invented in the 1990s, is currently making inroads into most wireless standards, e.g., for wireless LAN (WLAN, IEEE 802.11n/WiFi), broadband wireless access (IEEE 802.16e/WiMAX), and cellular (HSPA, 3GPP LTE). In most broadband systems, MIMO is combined with orthogonal frequency-division multiplex (OFDM) modulation.
In more than five years of world-leading research, Celestrius' founding team has made groundbreaking advances in MIMO-OFDM technology that allow for quantum-leap improvements in performance and efficiency of wireless semiconductor solutions. The team's pre-eminent expertise, which covers areas such as signal processing, communication and information theory, propagation theory, VLSI design, and system engineering, combined with excellence in execution, make Celestrius a leader in MIMO-OFDM communications. The company's advanced algorithms and architectures enable semiconductor solutions with unprecedented performance and cost benefits in a variety of applications.
Celestrius Management Team
The company's complementary founding and management team includes the key contributors of the ETH research project and seasoned semiconductor industry experts.
