Camgian Microsystems Corporation, a provider of electronic systems and semiconductor technologies, has announced to have received a three year project from a defense laboratory. The company develops enhanced sensors, microelectronics and semiconductor technologies and solutions ranging from microcontrollers to Systems-on-a-Chip or ‘SoCs,’ to enable low power, high performance electronic systems and products for the defense, security and industrial markets.
The new assignment it has got the company a $9.2M Small Business Innovation Research or ‘SBIR’ Phase 3 project awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (News - Alert) or ‘AFRL’ in Dayton, Ohio. In this SBIR project, two ultra low power Application Specific Integrated Circuits or ‘ASICs’ will developed that will enable considerable power savings for a range of military electronic sensor systems, including radar and infrared cameras. The new RF transceiver ASIC will be developed by leveraging Camgian’s low power radar architecture and the intellectual property from AFRL on radar-on-a-chip technology. The asynchronous NULL Convention Logic by Camgian will power the DSP architecture to enable data driven, self-timed circuits and supports advanced power management through sub-threshold transistor operation coupled with power gating plus dynamic power supply control.
“The goal of this program is to radically improve the operational endurance of key ground and airborne ISR sensor assets while increasing both sensor performance and on-board digital signal processing capabilities,” commented Gary Butler, president and chief executive officer at Camgian Microsystems. “With this new chip set, we are aiming to drive down the size, weight, power and cost or ‘SWAPC’ of the systems while providing an ultra-energy efficient sensor and signal processing platform.”
Camgian has reduced the energy consumption in logic circuits during active computation to achieve considerable power consumption levels in key digital signal processing operations for infrared imaging systems. These power consumption levels are around 20 times lower than existing integrated circuit technologies.
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