NALU SCIENTIFIC, LLC
Radiation-hardened mixed-signal integrated circuit (Hoku ASIC) using Element Level Adjustability for autonomous self-correction under radiation exposure
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- Honolulu, HI
- Total capital
- $13.6M
- Federal grants
- $12.2M
- 25 awards · 2016–2026
- Rank in peer group#11 of 72
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $1.5M
- 6 awards · NASA, Defense
- Rank in Semiconductors#107 of 707
- Granted patents
- 3
- 2 pending · first 2020
- Rank in peer group#21 of 72
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal contractDefense · Develop Low Swap Readout Electronics And Modules For Photon Detection.$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Develop Low Swap Readout Electronics And Modules For Photon Detection.$140K
- Federal grantHealth and Human S · Phase II · Design and Development of SyMPET: System on chip Modular readout for high-resolution TOF-PET$938K
- Federal grantHealth and Human S · Phase II · Design and Development of SyMPET: System on chip Modular readout for high-resolution TOF-PET$1M
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase I (cosmos) Compact Standoff Biomolecular Observation System$156K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · SBIR Phase I (cosmos) Compact Standoff Biomolecular Observation System$156K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Codlir: Compact Digitizing LIDAR Receiver$898K
Show 24 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractNASA · Codlir: Compact Digitizing LIDAR Receiver$898K
- Federal contractNASA · Ot : High Density Digitizer System On Chip System$13K
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase I Codlir: Compact Digitizing LIDAR Receiver$159K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Hoku: Radiation-Tolerant Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits with Autonomous Element Level Adjustability$150K
- Federal grantHealth and Human S · Phase I · Design and Development of SyMPET: System on chip Modular readout for high-resolution TOF-PET$263K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and Development of WURP: Wideband Ultrafast Recorder for high energy density Plasmas$206K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and development of the HPSoC - High Pitch digitizer System-on-Chip$206K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Design and fabrication of the HDSoC- High Density digitizer System-on-Chip$1.1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and Development of STRAWZ: Streaming Autonomous Waveform-digitizer with Zero-suppression$200K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Design and fabrication of the AARDVARC- Advanced ASoC Rapid Digitizer, Variable Adaptive Readout Chip.$1.1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Design and fabrication of Ultrafast Pixel Array Camera (UPAC)$1.1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Design and Development of TR-BHM: Time Resolved Beam Halo Monitor$1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Design and fabrication of the AODS: All-in-One Digitizer System-on-chip$1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and Fabrication of the HDSoC- High Density Digitizer System-on-Chips$200K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and Development of the ElectroMon - Electron Cloud Monitor for Accelerator Control and Diagnostics$200K
- Federal contractNASA · Swell: Single-photon-sensitive Waveform Enhanced And Lightweight LIDAR$125K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · ILLUSTRO: Detection of Adversary Lasing Activity with an Ultra-Low Swap Architecture$50K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and fabrication of Ultrafast Pixel Array Camera (UPAC)$206K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design And Development Of TR-BHM: Time Resolved Beam$150K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and Fabrication of the ¿AODS¿: All-in-One Digitizer System-on-chip$150K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Design and fabrication of the “AARDVARC”- Advanced ASoC Rapid Digitizer, Variable Adaptive Readout Chip$1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and fabrication of the “AARDVARC”- Advanced ASoC Rapid Digitizer, Variable Adaptive Readout Chip$154K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and fabrication of the “SiREAD”- Silicon photomultiplier REadout, Automated calibration and Detection: A low power, low noise and high performance waveform sampling chip for high channel$154K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Design and Fabrication of the ASoC: a System-on-Chip Data Acquisition System$150K
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Standing among 72 peers
Line = medianSemiconductors · Device
- Federal grants#11 · top 15%
- Granted patents#21 · top 29%
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Founders and team
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
Claim this profile to add your teamWhat it has protected
USPTO · 3 granted of 5- GrantedSystem And Method For High-sample Rate Transient Data Acquisition With Pre-conversion Activity DetectionUSPTOUS 12,052,026
- GrantedSystem And Method For High Dynamic Range Waveform DigitizationUSPTOUS 11,782,164
- GrantedSystem And Method For High-sample Rate Transient Data Acquisition With Pre-conversion Activity DetectionUSPTOUS 10,715,166
Show all 5 patent records
- System And Method For High-sample Rate Transient Data Acquisition With Pre-conversion Activity DetectionJul 30, 2024 · US 12,052,026Granted
- System And Method For High Dynamic Range Waveform DigitizationOct 10, 2023 · US 11,782,164Granted
- System And Method For High-sample Rate Transient Data Acquisition With Pre-conversion Activity DetectionJul 14, 2020 · US 10,715,166Granted
- System And Method For High Dynamic Range Waveform DigitizationApplication PCTUS2021057508Pending
- System And Method For High-sample Rate Transient Data Acquisition With Pre-conversion Activity DetectionApplication PCTUS2019050690Pending
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Sources
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