Polar customers

Polar signal integrity design and test tools are deployed across the whole spectrum of industry and are licensed to companies as diverse as biomedical electronics design,communications, computing, high end video & audio, defense, aerospace, through pcb fabricators, automotive and life sciences.

Polar Instruments

Polar is a market leader in designing and manufacturing tools to simplify and enhance the design, fabrication and testing of printed circuit boards (PCBs). Polar develops and supplies innovative products including the industry-standard Controlled Impedance Test System (CITS) which provides the global PCB industry with an easy-to-use test system for high-speed digital and RF boards, as well as class-leading tools for fast and accurate design and testing of controlled impedance in PCBs.

Established in 1976 with operations and channel partners in the US, UK, Europe and Asia Pacific, Polar also leads the industry in tools for PCB layer stackup design and documentation.

Polar's history

"Adapt and thrive" could be the key to Polar’s first 40 years of providing an ever evolving and sometimes positively mutating line of products for the global electronics industry, founded in the early ‘70s in Hewlett Packard like style with Polar’s founder Doug Campbell hand building and chemically etching circuit boards in his small domestic garage. Doug built a small and dedicated team of creative electronics professionals – most of whom had benefited from the injection of specialist knowledge and culture whilst working at Tektronix. Doug had the foresight to create Polar as a small company with a creative and collaborative ethos and used cottage industry to establish a business with a low cost but highly skilled manufacturing base.

From the 1990s to the present day Polar has concentrated on high speed electronics – following the market trend for ever faster communications. Initially with test equipment to measure the high speed performance of circuit boards in their raw state, Polar CITS controlled impedance test systems are synonymous with testing high speed circuit boards in the tight knit community of specialist manufacturers who laminate and etch many layers of fiberglass and copper which form the basis of all electronic devices.

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