B&A Engineering Systems, Inc.

NASA awards B&A a SBIR contract

 

02/18/2011


B&A Engineering Systems Inc. is awarded a NASA SBIR contract to study and develop Data acquisition controllers and computers that can endure, operate and survive cryogenic temperatures.

Current and future NASA exploration flight missions require Avionics systems, Computers, Controllers and Data processing units that are capable of enduring extreme low temperature environments of Deep space, Lunar and Martian surfaces.  With recent technological advances in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), it has become possible and feasible to architect complete System on a Chip (SoC) using a single FPGA.  Large FPGAs have increased number of gates per square inch with reduced power consumption per gate and include µProcessors with soft and hard IPs, Arithmetic modules, sizeable onboard memory and A/D included.



For more information about the Cryogenic SBIR award, visit:

http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/10/sbir/phase1/SBIR...

For more information on NASA and its program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov