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 $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) 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 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 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...
Pacific Microchip Corp. was awarded a $131,499 firm fixed price contract by NASA's Shared Services Center to develop a charge ramping quantizer (CRQ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) under the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I solicitation. The CRQ-based ADC proposed by Pacific Microchip would employ a novel single-stage voltage-to-charge-to-digital conversion architecture. As a total small business set-aside, the contract aims to support Pacific Microchip in advancing the...
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 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III for the development of a low-power radiation-tolerant 4GHz bandwidth 16K channel spectrometer Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). The contract, valued at $156,000.00, is set aside for small businesses. Pacific Microchip Corp. has...
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. The contract, valued at $131,500, is for the development of a board-level solution for NASA's microwave correlation radiometers used in Earth sensing applications. As the prime contractor, Pacific Microchip Corp. will leverage its expertise in integrated circuits, sensors, spectrometers, and application-specific...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Pacific Microchip Corp., a For Profit Organization and Subchapter S Corporation, for a "DUAL-CHANNEL MULTI-NYQUIST ZONE DAC WITH DIGITAL UP-CONVERSION" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The potential value of the contract is $131,499.00 and the period of performance runs from the award date of May 19, 2021 to the completion...