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 $123,236.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Alphacore Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract is for research and development of a 20 gigasamples per second analog-to-digital converter to be used in spectrometer backends for microwave radiometers. This contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which indicates it is a phase I research and development...
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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I 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 $125,000.00 fixed-price contract aims to develop a 20 gigasamples per second (GSPS), 6-bit radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for use in microwave radiometers for Earth sensing applications. The proposed ADC is...
This is a $759,993.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to Alphacore Inc., a small business, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. The contract is for the development of a 20 GSPS (Gigasamples per Second) ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter) for spectrometer backends in microwave radiometers. The contract has a completion date of September 30, 2025. This award supports Alphacore's expertise in advanced...
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 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 is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Alphacore Inc., a small business specializing in advanced microelectronics. The $754,979.00 fixed-price contract is for the development of a self-calibrating, lightweight, radiation-hardened isolated DC-DC converter. This contract supports NASA's research and development needs for specialized power electronics for space and defense applications. The...
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 $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...