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DESIGN OF A HIGH-SPEED INTELLIGENT BUFFER/MEMORY FOR THE FASTBUS

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Energy 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
1202 		Program Year/Program:
1985 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
1202 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Dvp, Inc.
2401 Reserach Blvd. Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20850
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 1985
Title: DESIGN OF A HIGH-SPEED INTELLIGENT BUFFER/MEMORY FOR THE FASTBUS
Agency: DOE
Contract: N/A
Award Amount: $499,585.00
 

Abstract:

THERE IS A CURRENT NEED FOR A STANDARD INTERFACE BETWEEN MODERN, HIGH SPEED COMPUTERS AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS. A NEW INSTRUMENTATION STANDARD, THE FASTBUS, DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO MEET THE INTERFACE NEED BETWEEN PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS AND MODERN COMPUTERS IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING PROTOTYPE TESTING. UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO THE LIMITED NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS OF THE FASTBUS TO SPECIFIC INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT PROJECTS, RESEARCH IS NEEDED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS OF FASTBUS MODULES. OF PRIMARY CONCERN TO FASTBUS DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS IS AN INTELLIGENT FAST BUFFER. DVP, INC. PROPOSES TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A LOW-POWER, LOW-COST, EXTREMELY FAST, HIGHLY DEPENDABLE, INTELLIGENT BUFFER. THE PROPOSED DESIGN APPROACH IS UNIQUE IN THAT BIT-SLICE PROCESSOR CONTROLLED MOS VLSI ICS ARE USED TO PROVIDE DYNAMIC ACCESS TIMES RIVALING ECL MEMORIES. THE FAST ACCESS TIMES ARE FACILITATED BY EMPLOYING STATE-OF-THE ART VIDEO FRAME STORE BUFFER TECHNIQUES. THE FINAL MODULE WILL BE CAPABLE OF FULL BANDWIDTH REAL-TIME OPERATION IN A FASTBUS ENVIRONMENT. THE MODULE WILL BE CONFIGURABLE AS A LARGE CAPACITY, HIGHLY FLEXIBLE, GENERAL PURPOSE MEMORY, OR AS A SPECIALIZED HIGH SPEED FIFO BUFFER FOR DATA ACQUISITION.

Principal Investigator:

Matthew W. Price
Senior Design Engineer

Business Contact:

Small Business Information at Submission:

Digital Video Processing Inc.
2401 Research Blvd Rockville, MD 20850

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