MILANOWSKI & ASSOCIATES INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N172-138
MILANOWSKI & ASSOCIATES INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $124,223
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N172-138
- Solicitation
- 17.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2018-01-02 → 2019-08-06
Description
C&R is a system-level approach to hardening electronics to nuclear weapon high dose rate effects. It enables a high-level system function to meet specified radiation requirements even though certain lower level subsystem functions are implemented with components having lower hardness levels. A typical C&R scheme may involve the use of a high-performance central processor unit (CPU) that does not meet the system level radiation requirements for upset, or even latch-up, threshold, but is provided rapid and orderly error handling, fault isolation, and power-down/reset functions that are managed by upper radiation-hardened parts. Established concepts for C&R and their hardware implementations have not kept paced with advances in semiconductor technology. We are proposing a comprehensive effort to modernize the C&R paradigm for hardening advanced electronics technologies to nuclear radiation-induced upset.