Katsman, Vladimir
Radiation-hardened wide-bandwidth digitizer ASIC for space applications
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
- Total capital
- $4.6M
- Federal grants
- $150K
- 1 award · 2022
- Rank in peer group#4 of 224
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $4.5M
- 15 awards · NASA, Defense
- Rank in Semiconductors#64 of 707
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Ultra High Speed Digitizer with Integrated Synchronized Clock Source and Rad Hard SPI$150K
- Federal contractNASA · Robust Radiation Hard Low Power Dac$750K
- Federal contractNASA · Robust Radiation Hard Low Power Dac$125K
- Federal contractDefense · Pattern Generator Pr# 68-5007-18$15K
- Federal contractDefense · Generator Pr# 68-5021-18$11K
- Federal contractNASA · Adsantec Evaluation Modules$6K
- Federal contractNASA · Digital Multiplexer Circuit Board$5K
Show 9 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractNASA · Low Temperature Survivability, High Performance And Radiation Tolerance Of Electronics In Combination Is Required For Nasa's Surface Missions. Modern Sub-micron Cmos Circuits Operate At Low Power Supply Voltages And Offer A Very Large Scale Of Integration And Compatibility With Automated Design Tools At Gigabit/second Data Rates. Unfortunately, Their Power Consumption Significantly Increases At Higher Frequencies And Single-ended Architectures Are Associated With Switching Noise And Duty Cycle D$100K
- Federal contractNASA · High Speed Robust Very Low Power Radiation Hardened Bus Interconnects Are Required To Accelerate On-board Computations, Further Improve Reconfigurability And Upgrade Capabilities Of Tracking Systems, And Provide Easy System Upgrade. The Existing Radiation-hardening Techniques Significantly Degrade The Achievable Circuit's Performance, Reducing Speed And Increasing Power Consumption. In Order To Accelerate On-board Computations, Improve Onboard Autonomous Navigation And Time-transfer Systems That$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Advanced Radiation Hardened Prototyping Of Obsolescent Mil$100K
- Federal contractNASA · TAS::80 0119::TAS Analog-to-digital Converters (adcs) Are The Key Components For Digitizing High-speed Analog Data In Modern Data Acquisition Systems, Which Is A Critical Part Of Sensor/detector Array Readout Electronics Widely Used By NASA. Unfortunately, Commercially Available Adcs Consume High Power And Feature High System Latency And Poor Linearity; Especially At Input Bandwidths Larger Than 1GHZ. In Addition, These Adcs Are Not Radiation Tolerant Due To The Utilized Process Technologies And$600K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II - Basic Effort$1.4M
- Federal contractDefense · Contract Summary Report$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Radiation Hard Space Wire Gigabit Ethernet Compatible Transponder$600K
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase 2 Award For Effort Entitled: Radiation-tolerant, Space Wire-compatible Switching Fabric. Advr, Inc Will Develop A Fiber Coupled, High Power, Electro-optically Controlled, Phase Modulator For The NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (lisa). The Device Should Be Capable Of Phase Modulating A 1 W Or Greater, Continuous Wave Optical Signal At Multi-gigahertz Rates At 1064 Nm. The Key Innovation Is The Use Of A Waveguide Embedded In A Non-linear Optical Material Suitable For High Opti$510K
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase I Award For Research Effort Entitled: Radiation-tolerant Space Wire-compatible Switching Fabric$70K
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Standing among 224 peers
Line = medianSemiconductors · Device
- Federal grants#4 · top 2%
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Sources
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