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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $755,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Pacific Microchip Corp. to develop an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for use in NASA's microwave correlation radiometers. The ASIC will digitize and process the radio frequency (RF) signals from radiometer front-ends, replacing bulky and power-hungry analog signal processing components. Key innovations include programmable digital signal...
This contract award to Pacific Microchip Corp., a small business entity, is for the development of a low-power, radiation-tolerant Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) based spectrometer under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The ASIC aims to achieve a 4GHz bandwidth and 8192 usable frequency bins while consuming less than 1.5 watts of power, providing significant improvements over the field programmable arrays, analog-to-digital converters, and other discrete...
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 one-year firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) to Avnet Inc., a major global distributor of electronic components and technology solutions. The contract is for the procurement of 160,000 Combined Input/Controlled Output (CINCO-IIA) Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to be delivered to the Survivability Vulnerability Assessment Directorate at the White Sands Test Center. The contract has a ceiling value of $5,157,951.49 and does...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the PEO Aviation division of the U.S. Department of Defense to Raytheon Company for the delivery of 2,500 application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) with part number 654462-02. The $1,829,435.00 firm fixed-price contract has an ultimate completion date of February 24, 2025 and was originally awarded on February 21, 2020. The ASIC chips are a component used in M-code GPS receivers. There was no set-aside designation for this requirement, as Raytheon...
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 small business based in Culver City, California. The contract, valued at $125,000.00, is for the development of a radiation-hardened, low-power, poly-phase spectrometer application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with a 4 GHz bandwidth and 16,384 frequency bins. The proposed ASIC aims to provide...
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) awarded a $47,178.49 firm-fixed-price purchase order to National Instruments Corp (NI) to provide one (1) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) test flow equipment. The contract, which has a completion date of January 4, 2024, does not have a set-aside designation. NI, as a prime contractor, will deliver the ASIC test equipment, installation, training, and maintenance services to the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC)...
This is a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Intrinsix Corp., doing business as Intrinsix, a for-profit organization that provides ASIC design services. The $1,586,143.00 contract is for the verification of integrated circuit (IC) foundation intellectual property (IP) and a processor. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. In addition to this award, Intrinsix has received other DARPA contracts, including a...
This is a $179,854 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded to Senseeker Corp, a small business, by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a Digital Pixel Readout Integrated Circuit (DPROIC), which are critical components for advanced infrared imaging sensors used in defense and aerospace applications. Senseeker, based in Goleta, California, is a transducer integrated circuit and cryogenic test...