This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Pacific Microchip Corp. for the development of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) readout electronics. The ADC is required to have features such as radiation hardness, low power consumption, high resolution, and high sampling rate to support space-based photometer and spectrometer instruments for astrophysics and...
This is a Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Silicon Technologies Inc., a small business based in Midvale, Utah. The contract, valued at $124,154.00, is for the development of a radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a 40nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process. The proposed ADC would have 18-bit resolution and a sampling rate of 48 kilosamples per second, with the goal of demonstrating the feasibility of...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Alphacore Inc., a for-profit small business. The $904,345.00 contract supports the design and characterization of a 24 gigasamples per second (GSPS), 40 gigahertz (GHz) wide-input bandwidth, 6-bit (5.0 effective number of bits, ENOB), 700 milliwatt (mW) low-power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for use in NASA's microwave sensor remote sensing...
This is a $124,996 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Science And Novel Technology Company, a sole proprietorship doing business as Katsman, Vladimir. The contract is for the design and development of a "Robust Radiation Hard Low Power Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)" intended to withstand high radiation levels in space. This Phase I award is expected to lead to...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Pacific Microchip Corp. in the amount of $125,000.00. The contract is for the development of a radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter (ADC) required for Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) readout electronics used in photometers, spectrometers, and remote sensing instruments for astrophysics and earth/planetary applications. The proposed ADC aims to...
This is a $755,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The contract aims to develop a 20 gigasamples per second (GSPS), 6-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for use in microwave radiometers, radio telescopes, and other space and airborne Earth sensing applications. The ADC is intended to achieve over 5 effective...
This is a $149,994 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Culver City, California. The contract is for the development of an ultra-fast sampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that can interface with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This SBIR Phase I award is intended to support the...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Culver City, California. The contract, valued at $900,000, is for the development of a radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter (ADC) specifically designed for use in fluxgate magnetometers for various NASA space physics missions, such as ICON, GOLD, Solar...
This firm fixed price purchase order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awards $149,924 to Vladimir Katsman doing business as Advanced Science And Novel Technology Company. The contract supports Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop an ultra high speed digitizer with an integrated synchronized clock source and radiation hardened serial peripheral interface. Place of performance will be in Palos Verdes...
Vladimir Katsman, doing business as Advanced Science And Novel Technology Company, has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $749,894 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center. The firm fixed price contract is for the delivery of a Robust Radiation Hard Low Power DAC under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. Performance will take place in Palos Verdes Peninsula, California over a two year period concluding in July 2023. The award...