Navy SPAWAR Systems Center Selects Space Micro for Radiation Hard, Reconfigurable Sampled IF Filter Chip

SAN DIEGO, CA – March 9, 2011 – Space Micro Inc, an innovator of radiation hardened microelectronics for space applications, announced today that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from Navy PEO Space, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA. The contract is to study and develop a radiation hard reconfigurable microcircuit to support space communications. This proposed device must be designed to address and survive the damaging effects of radiation in space, both TID and SEE.

The device resulting from this R&D will potentially meet the needs of many DoD Air Force satellites including the Navy advanced MUOS program. Space Micro plans to embed in many of their advanced space transponder and transceiver product line to enable on-orbit reconfigurable options.

David J. Strobel, CEO at Space Micro, said “this new SBIR adds to our portfolio of rad hard space components for space communications hardware. We have the technology and experience to design, develop, manufacture, and market this new space qualified component.”

About Space Micro Inc.

Space Micro Inc specializes in payload and communications equipment for satellites, and is a pioneer and leader in technologies that enable Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices to be deployed in space. Radiation in space is damaging to electronics. Space Micro has developed patented technologies to mitigate radiation effects on state-of-art commercial electronics. Space Micro offers space-qualified radiation hardened microelectronics, from radiation hardened by design (RHBD) technologies to space rated single board computers (RH SBC). Space Micro offers the world’s fastest space radiation hardened line of radiation hardened computers. These space computers include the Proton200k™ DSP-based RH SBC, Proton300k™ SRAM-based reconfigurable space computer (RH RCC), and Proton400k™ multi-core PowerPC-based RH SBC. In addition to satellite computers, Space Micro offers satellite communications equipment such as Space-Ground Link System (µSGLS™ / RH SGLS / RH SGLS-USB / µSTDN™ / RH STDN transponders), Ka Band transmitter (µKa™ Wide Band Radiation Hardened Transmitter), X/UHF/VHF-Band transponders and power amplifiers (RH PA) and custom boxes. Other Space Micro developments include ProtonX-Box™ Avionics Suite, TTMR™ (Time Triple Modular Redundancy), H-CORE™ circuitry for Single Events Functional Interrupt (SEFI) mitigation, SEMS™ Space Weather Box and Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS). Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, CA, USA.

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