Company Profile | September 28, 2000

MF Electronics Corporation

Source: MF Electronics Corporation
MF Electronics is a leader in the design and manufacture of frequency control products-components that control the timing of electronic devices, from calculators to data networking equipment to supercomputers. The company was founded in 1960 in New York City, and is now located in a 36,000 square foot manufacturing facility in New Rochelle, NY.

MF is a technology leader, as evidenced by many original achievements:

  • 1976 Introduced the first crystal clock oscillator in the DIL "can" design
  • 1977 Introduced the first crystal clock oscillators with "hard zero" and tristate options
  • 1978 One of the first to offer an IC oscillator, the MF Clockchip®
  • 1993 The first and only current US manufacturer of the 5x7 mm ceramic SMD oscillator with glass frit seal
  • 1999 Introduced the first 5x7 mm ceramic SMD oscillator with inverted mesa crystal with super-high frequency, super-low jitter characteristics
Complete Customer Support through Vertical Integration

The unique advantage that MF Electronics offers customers is complete customer support through vertical integration. MF Electronics houses all sales, design, prototype and manufacturing capabilities in one location. This organization enables MF to deliver new designs, prototypes and production runs with much greater flexibility than other vendors. This is unique in the frequency control products industry; and enables MF to provide complete customer support.

Current Product Capabilities

MF Electronics currently offers customers a complete line of crystal clock oscillators, catering to the needs of our customer base, primarily in the data and voice networking industry. Basic oscillator types include fixed frequency oscillators and wide frequency capture range VCXOs. Form factors range from double-wide, full-size and half-size DIL packages to 5x7mm surface mount ceramic packages. The company offers commercial, industrial and military grade products. MF carries all logic families including ECL and PECL, with both 5 volt and 3.3 volt models. Finally, MF offers customers a variety of stability characteristics, from 100ppm to 20ppm.