Category: news
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Contract Award: Medical Imaging Radar
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November 8, 2022 – For the first time ever, WSR will be applying our remote sensing capabilities in the medical field. We were recently awarded a contract to design and prototype a digital subsystem for a novel medical device. Unfortunately, we can’t disclose much more than that at the request of our confidential customer, but it’s exciting…
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Program Update: NASA DSI PDR Passed
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We’re excited to have passed the preliminary design review (PDR) milestone in our work developing the digital subsystem to run Aloft Sensing, Inc.‘s embedded PNT algorithm. Now it’s time to start implementing! In phase 1, we’ll build out the signal processing FPGA firmware, validating it first through simulation and then running on evaluation hardware. After that,…
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Delivery: JPL CRISTAL/CIMR Digital Backend Design
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October 24, 2022 – Design review passed and final delivery released to JPL for the multi-mission (CRISTAL & CIMR) digital back-end (DBE) engineering model hardware. This compact module, destined for space flight, carries an FPGA, two high performance ADCs, a standalone processor and a full compliment of memories and interfaces. It was a pleasure working…
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Asher Voris Joins the Team
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We’re excited to welcome a new member to the growing WSR team! Asher is an associate digital engineer at Wide Swath Research. His responsibilities cover the full stack of digital development including hardware design, embedded software and FPGA programming. He began his professional career at SerialTek where he learned key lessons about designing for manufacturing…
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Program Update: CRISTAL/CIMR DBE Schematics
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September 6, 2022 – Customer schematic review passed! This particular design is for a space-based radiometer digital backend. The hardware contains four 3.2 GSPS ADC channels, JESD interfaces linking the ADCs to an FPGA, Xilinx’s Kintex KU060, microprocessor, telemetry, spacecraft/instrument interfaces and a full complement of support components. This design is our second centered around…
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Contract Award: NASA Decadal Survey Incubator
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August 23, 2022 – Wide Swath Research is excited to be working with Aloft Sensing, Inc. as a co-investigator on “Embedded PNT Module for Distributed Radar Sensing” a program recently awarded by NASA’s ESTO office as a part of its 2021 Decadal Survey Incubation Program (DSI-21). To learn more about the program objectives, take a look at NASA’s…
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Thank You Ishaan Chahal
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This summer we were lucky to have Ishaan Chahal join the team as an embedded software engineer intern. Over that period he significantly contributed to a project interfacing with MicroSemi’s PolarFire SoC in support of a program with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We’re bummed it’s time for him to resume his studies at Rice University, but hope we haven’t…
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WSR’s New World Headquarters
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It’s official, the lease is signed for WSR’s new home: 405 Urban St, Lakewood, CO. Pictured above is our temporary space in the building until the new build-out is complete. We now have room to fulfill our expanding workload and grow our team!
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Contract Award: JPL VISAR Onboard Processor
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August 1, 2022 – Wide Swath Research was awarded a contract by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop the firmware for the Venus Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (VISAR) onboard processor. We’re very excited to contribute to this important science, to play a part in the international development team and to have our footprint on a Venus mission!…
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Torry Akins Joins the Team
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Wide Swath Research proudly welcomes Torry Akins to the team as Principal Engineer (he actually joined in March, but we never formally announced it). Torry has been developing radar electronics for nearly 30 years. Over that period he worked in the Radar & Remote Sensing Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets…
