Awarded Contracts

Ridgetop maintains a high-powered Technical Staff and has been awarded a number of contracts from the US Government and Prime Contractors for Electronic Prognostics and High Performance Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits.

         Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR)

• Advanced DC-to-DC Power Converter Prognostics
• BGA (Ball Grid Array) Package Prognostics and Intermittency Problem Reduction (No Fault Found, RTOK, CND rate reduction)
• Prognostic IC (Canary) for Critical Applications
• Intermittency Mitigation in MOSFETs (NBTI - Negative Bias Temperature Instability)
• Digital CPU Prognostics for critical control applications
• Advanced Communication/Navigation/Intelligence (CNI) System Prognostics

         NASA/Ames

• Electronic Prognostics for Vehicle Health Management
• EMA (Electromechanical Actuator) Prognostics for ADAPT Test bed
• Non-invasive prognostics power monitoring

         Navy/SPAWAR – San Diego

• Prognostics for Shipboard IT Networks

         NASA/Ames

• Electronic Prognostics for Vehicle Health Management
• EMA (Electromechanical Actuator) Prognostics for ADAPT Test bed
• Non-invasive prognostics power monitoring

         Department of Energy

• IC Failure Prognostics for Particle Strip Detectors
• High Performance ADC (40MSPS, 14bit, 0.13u) for Particle Collider applications

         Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

• FADEC Prognostics. Configurable embedded monitor and analyzer (CEMA) for Fly-by-Wire Control Systems

         Naval Sea System Command (NAVSEA)/Crane

• Dose Rate Radiation Hardening for Analog/Mixed-Signal BIST

         Missile Defense Agency

• Radiation Hardening for Mixed Signal Electronics
• High performance Rad hard ADC for dose rate applications

         DARPA

• Rad Hard by Design Tool Development

         NASA/Goddard

• Specialized Rad Hard IC for Living with a Star (LWS) Program