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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:
2006 / 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 92078
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Woman-Owned: Yes
Minority-Owned: Yes
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2006
Title: High-Speed Interconnects Over Copper Traces
Agency / Branch: DOD / DARPA
Contract: W31P4Q-06-C-0069
Award Amount: $98,998.00
 

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 five years. In order to compensate for the inadequacies of the inter-connect technologies, chip manufacturers are integrating low-jitter clock circuits, adaptive equali-zation and multilevel signaling into chip I/O. However, the high non-recurring 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 inex-pensive technology for increasing the bandwidth of copper traces on printed circuits. The ap-proach involves using novel networks 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
Principal Investigator
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, 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