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The emergence of compact products employing mixed technologies, such as personal digital assistants, wireless communicators and sensor systems, is creating a host of new needs in electronics packaging. These products are driven by small size, light weight, high-operating frequencies, unique micro-to-macro interfacing and low-cost. There is a need for a simplified and reliable process for direct ...

The technical objective of this project is the preliminary design of a small, low power, low cost packet radio wireless inventory (WI) transmitter which can be affixed to or embedded in individual inventory items or groups of smaller, less expensive items to provide tracking and inventory capabilities well beyond those now available. Two key features should be present in any comprehensive solutio ...

Arroyo Optics has developed an add/drop filter for wavelength division multiplexing which is expected to exhibit the following exemplary characteristics: high routing efficiency (99%), zero loss (

BCL proposes developing FaxAssist, a system that automatically converts incoming fax to electronic mail and transmits the message along with all it's components to the intended recipient. FaxAssist will allow fax receivers to receive faxed messages anywhere in the world sent to a single number from which it is re-routed to the recipient. Furthermore, by deconstructing the fax into it's fields (s ...

Recent advances in processing technology have enabled the development of integrated optoelectronics as viable commercial products to meet the high-end needs of telecommunications, data-communications, computing, and signal processing applications. However, the performance and complexity of these components is limited by the computer-aided design software available for their development. Currentl ...

Microwave resonators of linear dielectrics for wireless applications have been fabricated in bulk form using conventional ceramic processing in the current commercial market. Machining and fine polishing are frequently required for dimension control and surface finish in addition to the inherent unfeasibility to fabricate miniaturized electronic circuits. It is vital to develop a suitable thin f ...

We propose an SBIR Phase I program which, through the use of complementary heterojunction bipolar transistor (CHBT) circuits, will extend the sample rate and analog bandwidth of existing silicon analog to digital (A/D) converters by a factor of six. This will be achieved through the design and simulation of CHBT 3 GS/s track and hold circuits with 8 to 10-bit linearity. We will demonstrate how CH ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE NEED FOR SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT FUTURE SPACE BASED APPLICATIONS THAT DEPEND ON THE AVAILABILITY OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL OR CONCURRENT SYSTEMS, SPECIFICALLY LARGE SCALE SIMD/MIMD TERAOP CLASS COMPUTERS. THE WORK DESCRIBED IN THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A SET OF SPECIALIZED SOFTWARE TOOLS THAT PROVIDE ALGORITHM DEVELOPERS WIRH A RAPID MEANS OF PROTOTYPING PARALLEL A ...

Medical outcomes analysis can be used for treatment plan recommendation, physician training, organization and budgeting of health care programs, and for resource allocation. Objectives are to apply the following disciplines to outcomes analysis: Information theory, optimization/control theory, sequential hypothesis testing, and parallel, distributed processing. Utility/loss measures are presently ...

We propose to provide a numerical capability to map the ELF/VLF electric and magnetic fields above the ground, as perturbed by threat underground structures of interest to the DoD. MATLAB source code will be delivered that will produce these perturbed fields as a function of radio frequency, as well as values for the unperturbed background field and the external noise. The latter two signals are ...