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) 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 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 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 $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 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 $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 SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a civilian agency, to Advanced Science And Novel Technology Company, a small business led by Vladimir Katsman. The $599,924 firm-fixed-price contract is to develop a monolithic high input bandwidth, radiation-tolerant analog-to-digital converter (HIBRA) for use in high-speed data acquisition systems for NASA's sensor and detector array readout electronics. This follows a prior $124,996 Phase I SBIR contract for the...
This is a $149,999.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Silicon Technologies Inc., a small business prime contractor, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of an advanced analog-to-digital converter for use in Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Silicon Technologies Inc. specializes in analog and mixed-signal design, particularly in the area of...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microelectronics Research Development Corporation (Micro-RDC), a for-profit organization, for the development of a radiation-hardened double data rate (DDR) embedded macro. The objective is to create a cost-effective and quick-turn integrated circuit (IC) digital fabric capable of meeting the demanding requirements of space-based electronic control...