Space Micro Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A16-078
Space Micro Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $100,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A16-078
- Solicitation
- 2016.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2016-11-17 → 2017-05-17
Description
Supporting multiple missile types, and frequency bands, is the inherent functionality of the Space Micro's Dual channel Software Defined Radio. As a repurposed SDR, this hardware radio supports firmware reprogramming to multiple waveform configurations (DoD specified), and accepts IF block down-conversions from L, S, C, X, and Ku bands. Size and power usage are only a small fraction of the legacy systems currently deployed (according to non-classified data comparisons); however, full legacy compatibility and interoperability are inherent and guaranteed by design. Further, support for future missile waveforms is supported due to the generous digital signal processing logic resources made available by the Xilinx Kintex-7 series FPGA used in the Space Micro tri-band SDR. Figure 1 illustrates the functional blocks of our dual-channel SDR.