This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,993 to Amrf LLC, a small business located in San Jose, CA, focuses on the design and development of ultra-wideband beamforming integrated circuits. The project aims to establish the feasibility of using a novel radio-frequency fractional Hilbert transformation design theory to create wideband RF front-end systems with phased arrays, which have the potential to transform...
This SBIR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $275,000 in funding to Tiami LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to design and prototype an intelligent 5G wireless repeater. This effort aims to enable pervasive, high-throughput mobile broadband connectivity across underserved urban and rural areas, addressing shortcomings in current 5G deployments. The...
This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships), aims to develop massively parallel protocols for software-based wireless systems. The $273,383 award, granted on September 15, 2023, will enable Lutris, Inc., the for-profit awardee, to demonstrate the feasibility of using commodity computing hardware and specially designed software to implement radio processing tasks at high speed. This approach has the potential...
This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop advanced analog circuits and systems for dense, in-situ spectrum monitoring. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) Ultra-efficient, single-shot analog cross-correlators capable of rapidly computing cross-correlations between input signals and template waveforms. This enables low-latency spectrum sensing...
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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $375,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to develop highly efficient CMOS transmitters for emerging broadband wireless communication systems. The three-year award period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award to OSO Semiconductor Inc., a minority-owned small business, will develop a new phased array communication technology to achieve lower power consumption, smaller form factors, and more affordable price targets. The $274,992 grant, awarded on December 15, 2023, will fund the development and testing of an ultra-low loss beamforming circuit that can be integrated into a unique low-power phased...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to develop innovative microelectronic hardware solutions to enhance the performance and resilience of future wireless systems in highly dynamic and congested spectrum environments. The key products and services to be delivered under this $380,000 award, spanning from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028, include: A low-power, harmonic-resilient software-defined radio...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $550,000 over 5 years to Florida A&M University (FAMU) to develop a reconfigurable real-time radio frequency (RF) analog co-processor in a compact, low-cost form factor. The project aims to: Design an RF analog co-processor that can perform configurable mathematical operations directly on electromagnetic waveforms, reducing computational load in digital signal processing. Develop a film with tunable...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a terahertz radar imaging transceiver to improve concealed threat detection for law enforcement and event venue security. The $274,927 award from the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will support the design, implementation, fabrication, and testing of a terahertz radar transceiver, a critical component for a portable, discreet security screening...