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High-Speed Interconnects Over Copper Traces

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 		Award ID:
78629 		Program Year/Program:
2008 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
05SB2-0336 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Aguila Technologies, Inc.
310 Via Vera Cruz Suite 107 San Marcos, CA 90501-2631
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Woman-Owned: Yes
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2008
Title: High-Speed Interconnects Over Copper Traces
Agency / Branch: DOD / DARPA
Contract: W31P4Q-08-C-0053
Award Amount: $749,999.00
 

Abstract:

As technology trends towards higher system data rates with reduced size and cost, the ability to create high-speed electrical interconnections at low cost is becoming critical. High-speed I/O, integrated along with high I/O parallellicity, is allowing interconnects to achieve over 1Tb/s of total chip-to-chip data rates. These rates are on a rapid upward trend, increasing at a rate of about 20% per year. As this trend continues, chips with many hundreds of parallel 20 Gb/s I/Os will be on the scene within the next few years. In order to compensate for the inadequacies of the interconnect technologies, chip manufacturers are integrating low-jitter clock circuits, adaptive equalization and multilevel signaling into chip I/O. However, the high nonrecurring costs involved in such approaches can only be afforded by the highest volume applications. Using commercial materials and printed circuit manufacturing methods, this proposed program will develop an inexpensive technology for increasing the bandwidth of copper traces on printed circuits. The approach involves using novel networks and repeaters to optimize each data channel at the design stage using conventional design tools. Our techniques will permit creation of copper-clad printed circuits using conventional materials, such as FR4, yet support single channel data rates in excess of 10Gb/s.

Principal Investigator:

M. A. Capote
President
7607521199
macapote@aguilatech.com

Business Contact:

M. A. Capote
President
7607521199
macapote@aguilatech.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

AGUILA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
310 Via Vera Cruz Suite 107 San Marcos, CA 92078

EIN/Tax ID: 330719762
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No