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HYPRES receives $800K to further develop
cryopackage and superconductor analog-to-digital converter for defense
communications
Elmsford, NY, July 20: HYPRES, Inc., a leading developer of
superconducting microelectronics (SME) technology, recently received $800K in
SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II Plus contract additions from
the Department of Defense in support of its effort to develop a compact
cryocooler and its superconducting 2 MHz-2 GHz direct-conversion all digital
receiver—both key components in the company’s work to deliver to the DoD the
industry’s first all-digital transceiver (ADT) for wireless communications.
The ADT will be capable of digitizing multiple radio signals at RF directly from
the antenna without any analog pre-processing, and digitally combine and
pre-distort outgoing signals at RF frequencies. This “wideband
direct-digitization,” as it is known, will provide orders-of-magnitude
performance gains and cost reductions in all but the small mobile software radio
applications, including Satellite Communications (SATCOM), Signals Intelligence
(SIGINT), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
programs.
A recent $400K, 12-month SBIR Phase II Plus contact awarded by the U.S. Army
supports continued work in miniaturizing the electronics within the compact
cryocooler. When completed, the compact cryocooler will host a 4-channal
full-duplex, wideband transceiver capable of being a high-end replacement in
many new SATCOM and JTRS applications.
Of note, HYPRES previously announced the selection of Lockheed Martin to develop
the cryocooler portion of the compact cryocooler.
In addition, a $400K, 12-month SBIR Phase II Plus add-on by the U.S. Army
supports the development of a multi-chip module version of HYPRES’ X-Band
Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) ADR for the Defense Communications
and Army Transmission Systems (DCATS).
Most recently the company successfully demonstrated and delivered to the U.S.
Navy the world’s fastest ADC. The ADC 20 GHz (clock speed) device—which exceeds
the sample rate of current ADCs by many times—also demonstrated the ability to
directly digitize HF, VHF and 1 GHz (frequency) signals.
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