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...
This federal contract award, valued at $749,936.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to Microelectronics Research Development Corporation, a for-profit small business organization. The contract is for the development of a radiation-hardened double data rate (DDR3) embedded memory controller macro to be inserted into digital integrated circuits suitable for scalable single and multi-core processors, special-purpose logic functions, and scalable memory blocks...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Microelectronics Research Development Corporation, a for-profit organization. The $124,986.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a low-cost methodology to radiation harden legacy integrated circuits. The contract was awarded on August 19, 2019, with a completion date of February 18, 2020. The work is to be performed in...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Microelectronics Research Development Corporation (MICRO-RDC), a for-profit organization, to develop a radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) encryption engine for use in future NASA missions. The $124,901.00 firm fixed-price contract will fund research and development of a data security application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that can implement common...
This is a firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Microelectronics Research Development Corporation, a small business. The contract is for the development of a radiation-hardened structured ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) platform at the 45nm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology node to enable high-speed, low-power, and small-size ICs for space missions. The contract, valued at $1,499,950.00, is part of the Small Business...
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) Program Phase I contract awarded to Space Micro Inc., a small business engineering firm, by NASA's Shared Services Center. The contract, valued at $125,000.00, is to demonstrate a low-power, radiation-hardened readout system for frequency multiplexing of large-format arrays of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). KIDs are a leading technology for future NASA astrophysics missions, as described in the agency's recent roadmap. This SBIR Phase I...
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 contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Syrnatec Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business and manufacturer of semiconductor and RF/microwave components. The $124,999.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to develop radiation-tolerant, high-voltage, high-power electronics. The award is set aside for total small businesses. Syrnatec has previously received...
This federal contract award is for Silicon Space Technology Corporation, doing business as Vorago Technologies, Inc., to design a radiation-hardened (rad-hard) single board computer for use in small satellites and CubeSats. The board will have a rad-hard microcontroller unit (MCU) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) to provide robust computing capabilities for long-duration missions in harsh radiation environments. The board will include various interfaces, on-board memory, and...