SBIR/STTR Research Award
3.3/5V Configurable FPGA Logic IC Emulator
Award amount
$199,989Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Microelectronics Activity
- Recipient company
- TDA RESEARCH, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-07-23
- Contract end date
- 2026-01-22
- UEI
- MK5ANJVWVZK7
- Solicitation number
- 25.D
- Topic code
- DMEA25D-001
Research abstract
Legacy military hardware systems can be 20-40 years old or older. Many include printed circuit boards that have integrated circuits (ICs) that are obsolete and are no longer manufactured or available. Unfortunately, newer ICs are typically designed for low voltage (<2 V) inputs and are not backward compatible with older designs using 3.3 V or 5 V inputs. This makes maintenance and repair for legacy military hardware extremely difficult, and in the worst cases, nearly impossible, requiring prohibitively costly electronic redesigns. TDA and our partners at the University of Utah will develop a custom embedded FPGA (eFPGA) that can run on both 3.3V and 5V inputs. The eFPGA will be small enough to fit in a wide array of IC packages so that it can emulate obsolete ICs and act as a drop-in replacement for them to ease the repair and maintenance of legacy electronic hardware.
Technology keywords
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Research funding history
951 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2026). Reported award amounts total $317,960,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services