Cooperative Agreement FA86501325500

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $286,787.36 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Recon RF, Inc., a minority-owned, veteran-owned small disadvantaged business located in San Diego, California. The purpose of this 2.5-year project is to develop next-generation large-signal/high-power transistor modeling techniques to create highly accurate models for RF-microwave circuit design simulators. Key activities include...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,992 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Tech-X Corporation. The purpose is for Tech-X to develop a simulation tool that accounts for manufacturing variations and imperfections to enable faster and more cost-effective development of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Key activities include modifying Tech-X's XSIM simulation tool to model the effects of fabrication defects...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics (SiP) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) channelizer with ultra-wide bandwidth, dynamic tuning, ultra-fast channelization, and interferer tolerance capabilities. The project aims to integrate SiP components with nanometer CMOS circuitry to generate optical frequency combs with flat...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program), is developing a high-precision time-to-digital converter (TDC) capable of picosecond accuracy. The $305,000 award to Main Engineering LLC will enable the research and development of a semiconductor chip-based TDC that can operate in harsh environments and provide enhanced performance features such as zero...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,999.65 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Tiptek, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to create new gigahertz nanoprobes for semiconductor failure analysis. Through this funding, Tiptek will build ultra-high-speed nanoprobe prototypes capable of operating at gigahertz frequencies to detect "soft" electrical faults that are difficult to identify with...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to United Semiconductors, LLC supports the development of two critical hardware components for in-space manufacturing of advanced semiconductor materials: A Universal Crystal Growth Capsule designed to leverage microgravity conditions during crystal growth, enabling high-throughput production of high-purity semiconductor crystals. A novel Wafer Dicing Tool to achieve...

Pacific Microchip Corp. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to fund development of a HIGH CHANNEL DENSITY DIGITAL ACQUISITION SYSTEM. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under the award, Pacific Microchip Corp. will...

This Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $135,085 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2024. The funding supports the acquisition of an ultrahigh-resolution microscope Raman and synchronous fluorescence system to conduct materials characterization and analysis. As the...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a prototype transceiver integrated circuit with wide frequency flexibility. The goal is to create a tunable and programmable radio frequency (RF) transceiver that can achieve the benefits of both hardware-tuned and software-defined radio approaches, addressing limitations in existing software-defined radio technologies....

This $19,958,193.66 Project Grant was awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program (CFDA 11.038) to Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) on February 1, 2025. The grant will fund a 3-year effort by ADI to accelerate the development of advanced 5nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) radio transceiver application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) components, system-on-chip, and chiplets....