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KIRTLAND AFB, N.M., 31 Jan. 2007. Microelectronics Research Development Corp. (Micro-RDC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., won a $6.1 million U.S. Air Force research contract to develop a practical and cost-effective way to design radiation hardened digital electronic components.
The small business innovative research (SBIR) phase-2 contract is from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
Micro-RDC experts are fully to develop and realize affordable ways to build and deliver rad-hard electronics that can operate reliably in U.S. Missile Defense Agency and other U.S. Department of Defense space and interceptor environments.
This SBIR phase-2 contract follows on previous U.S. government-sponsored research by Micro-RDC to apply radiation hardening by design techniques on deep-submicron semiconductor technologies so that experts can fabricate rad-hard microcircuits through commercial foundries.
Micro-RDC experts are applying these techniques to design a family of rad-hard base arrays suitable for single configuration reticle, multi-project wafer lots through the 130-nanometer CMOS technology at the IBM Trusted Foundry facility in Essex Junction, Vt.
Company officials say their rad-hard-by-design circuit layout techniques have demonstrated strategic levels of hardness to total ionizing dose, single event latchup, and prompt dose.
Micro-RDC was founded in 2005 by Dr. David G. Mavis and Mr. Paul H. Eaton to perform design hardening of electronic circuits for military and aerospace applications. Company services include design and verification for circuit fabrication through foundries. Mavis is the company's chief scientist, and Eaton is chief engineer.
The company specializes in CMOS design and development efforts in rad-hard microcircuits; device physics and radiation effects modeling; circuit simulation and upset analysis; device parameter extraction and model development; rail span collapse and survivability analysis; and latchup modeling.
For more information contact Micro-RDC online at www.micro-RDC.com.
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