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Current VLSI design tools fall short in their approach to automating the reliability analysis during the design process. The manual burden of these checks then falls heavily on the designers.Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) has developed the system concept of the RELI, an integrated design system for reliable VLSI design. In the RELI system, long term reliability problem such as ...

SPEC proposes a program to deliver a high-resolution no deadzones OTDR for flightline fiber optic diagnostics of the Navy F-18 E/F. Application to other multimode optical fiber networks such as Air Force F-22, Army RAH-66, and commercial Boeing 777 is expected. Extension to flyable and factory OTDR versions planned as follow on additions. Program lays foundation to develop ruggedization, m ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a Waveform Agile Signal Processor (WASP) to support the next generation of fuzing systems and subsystems. WASP is designed to~provide high performance, waveform agile, adaptive signal processing for a variety of RF and optical fuze sensors. WASP is designed to support pulsed time domain, frequency domain, phase, direct sequen ...

Program provides capability to transfer microwave signals over fiber optic channel in 1 - 18 GHz band. Current operations require system to assess electric field within fuselage of an aircraft such as induced by radar sweep. Currently, non-fiber coaxial cable system is affected by leakage from external environment and requires holes for bulkhead connectors to be put in fuselage. Fiber ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop an advanced digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) tht incorporates digital frequency modulation capabilities designed to defeat modern threat systems. The Advanced DRFM will provide an accurate representation of platform signture characteristics such as target range extent, Doppler shifts, phase and amplitude shifts, and polar ...

Vacuum microelectronics will allow production of a new class of devices with distinct advantages over solid state electronic devices in radiation tolerance, high temperature operation, compactness, and high specific power and efficiency. Devices like vacuum field emission transistors (VFETs) have the advantages of vacuum tubes, can be size compatible to silicon microelectronic technology, and uti ...

Fast PCI bus (GaAs crossbar) technology improves performance of future smart networking radio communication nodes with focus on an application payload on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). SPEC's Fast PCI crossbar of N sockets provides "N/2 X" throughput improvement compared to standard high speed computer bus (implies for N = 2, there is equality, but for N = 4, 8, 16 the factor of improvement is ...

Current field deployed remote sensing capabilities are limited since they must be either hand emplaced or helicopter dropped from low altitudes. This is impractical in hostile, remote, or covert applications. A sensor capability is needed that can be dropped from high altitude, high performance aircraft and multiple sensors delivered to a desired precise location. Due to the expense in flight ...

One of the most important problems to overcome for the development of wide bandgap metal insulator semiconductor (MIS) technology is development of high-quality gate dielectric layers. Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC), in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, proposes to compare both deposited silicon nitride and aluminum nitride as the dielectric gate layer for ...

A small, battery-operated data recorder/analyzer utilizing internal sensors is needed to collect data to improve the design of the ejection seat and restraint mechanisms to reduce injuries and deaths during ejections. SPEC proposes to leverage our existing recorder, multiplexing and telemetry experience to develop a completely autonomous, high G, miniature Ejection Data Acquisition and Recorder M ...