PACIFIC MICROCHIP CORP.

Culver City, CA · Semiconductors · Private

256-channel data acquisition (DAQ) system for nuclear physics detectors based on custom 32-channel ADC ASIC with integrated clock synthesis and high-speed optical data interface

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · pacificmicrochip.com

Sector: Semiconductors
Headquarters: Culver City, CA
Total capital: $23.3M

Federal grants: $5.7M; 15 awards · 2015–2026; Rank in peer group#27 of 72
Private capital raised: None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts: $17.7M; 44 awards · NASA, Defense, Interior; Rank in Semiconductors#23 of 707
Granted patents: 1; 1 pending · first 2022; Rank in peer group#33 of 72

Capital timeline

Latest events

Sep 2026Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Phase I SBIR - An Asic For Segmented Snspd Readout$225K
Sep 2026Federal grantNASA · Phase I · SBIR Phase I 28 Ghz Instantaneous-bandwidth Spectrometer$225K
May 2026Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Direct Digital-to-mm-wave Data Converter Development And Modeling$140K
May 2026Federal contractDefense · Direct Digital-to-mm-wave Data Converter Development And Modeling$140K
Sep 2025Federal contractNASA · Phase I SBIR - Fft-based Beamformer Asic$156K
Sep 2025Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase I - A Low-power 14GHZ Spectrometer Asic$156K
Sep 2025Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase III Contract #80NSSC25C0457 Entitled Aurora Spectrometer Back-end Electronics (sbe)$224K

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Aug 2025Federal grantNASA · Phase I · SBIR Phase I - A Low-power 14GHZ Spectrometer Asic$156K
Aug 2025Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Phase I SBIR - Fft-based Beamformer Asic$156K
Jun 2025Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Phase II SBIR$900K
Jun 2025Federal contractNASA · Phase II SBIR$900K
Aug 2024Federal contractNASA · FY24 SBIR Phase I- A Cryogenic Spectrometer Asic$150K
Aug 2024Federal contractNASA · FY24 SBIR Phase I- An Ultra-fast Sampling Adc Asic Interfacing With Fpgas$150K
Aug 2024Federal grantNASA · Phase I · FY24 SBIR Phase I- An Ultra-fast Sampling Adc Asic Interfacing With Fpgas$150K
Aug 2024Federal grantNASA · Phase I · FY24 SBIR Phase I- A Cryogenic Spectrometer Asic$150K
Aug 2023Federal contractNASA · 2 -spectrometer Quad Pcb REV2$114K
May 2023Federal contractNASA · SBIR Phase II - Low-power 28GHZ Selective Spectrometer$900K
May 2023Federal contractNASA · E014042 SBIR Phase II A Signal Frequency Channelizer Asic$900K
Feb 2023Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · A High Channel Density Digital Acquisition System$200K
Jul 2022Federal contractNASA · EO14042 Phase I A Signal Frequency Channelizer Asic$156K
Jul 2022Federal contractNASA · EO14042 Phase I Low-power 28GHZ Selective Spectrometer$156K
Jun 2022Federal contractNASA · FY22 Ccrpp Low-power Radiation Tolerant 4GHZ Bandwidth 16K Channel Spectrometer Asic$716K
Jun 2022Federal contractNASA · EO14042 FY22 SBIR Phase III Low-power Radiation Tolerant 4GHZ Bandwidth 16K Channel Spectrometer Asic$156K
May 2022Federal contractNASA · EO14042 FY22 SBIR Phase III Low-power Radiation Tolerant 4GHZ Bandwidth 16K Channel Spectrometer Asic$560K
Apr 2022Federal contractNASA · E014042 SBIR Phase II A Board Level Solution For Correlation Radiometers$800K
Apr 2022Federal contractNASA · E014042 SBIR Phase II A 10GHZ 4K Frequency Bin Polarimetric Spectrometer Asic$766K
May 2021Federal contractNASA · A Charge Ramping Quantizer. Pacific Microchip Corp. Proposes To Develop An Adc Implementing Fundamentally New Architecture Employing A Single Stage Voltage-to-charge-to-digital Converter Based On A Charge Ramping Quantizer (crq).$131K
May 2021Federal contractNASA · A Board Level Solution For Correlation Radiometers.the Proposed Project Aims To Develop A Board Level Solution For The Nasas Microwave Correlation Radiometers Required For Earth Sensing Applications.$132K
May 2021Federal contractNASA · A 10GHZ 4K Frequency Bin Polarimetric Spectrometer.this Proposal Aims To Prove The Feasibility (phase I), Develop And Test (phase II) A 10GHZ 4K Frequency Bin Polarimetric Spectrometer Asic.$132K
May 2021Federal contractNASA · Dual-channel Multi-nyquist Zone Dac With Digital Up-conversion$131K
Apr 2021Federal contractNASA · Single Event Effects Radiation Testing Of Pmcc's Digital Spectrometer Asic$80K
Apr 2020Federal contractNASA · Low-power Radiation Tolerant 4GHZ Bandwidth 16K Channel Spectrometer Asic$375K
Mar 2020Federal contractDefense · Demonstrate The Implementation Feasibility Of The Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Digitizer With Spur Energy Suppression Based On The Previously Developed Analog-to-digital-recorder (adc)$50K
May 2019Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · An ASIC with a Low Power Multichannel ADC for Energy and Timing Measurements$976K
May 2018Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · 12-bit 32 Channel 500MSps Low Latency ADC$1M
May 2018Federal contractNASA · The Proposal Aims To Develop An Analog-to-digital Converter (adc) Required For The Kinetic Inductance Detector (kid) Readout Electronics. Kids Are Developed For Photometers And Spectrometers For Astrophysics Focal Planes, And Earth Or Planetary Remote Sensing Instruments. Adcs Employed In Space Based Kids Are Required To Combine Several Features: Radiation Hardness, Low Power Consumption, High Resolution And High-sampling Rate To Facilitate Increase In The Number Of The Readout Tones And To Redu$755K
May 2018Federal contractNASA · The Proposed Project Aims To Develop An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (asic) For The NASA S Microwave Correlation Radiometers Required For Space And Airborne Earth Sensing Applications. The Radiometer Instrumentation Installed On Cubesats And Smallsats Is Required To Have Small Volume, Low Weight And Consume Low Power. Currently Used Correlating Radiometers Rely On Analog Signal Processing, Thus Are Bulky, Power Hungry And Cannot Be Reprogrammed. Analog Filter Parameters Tend To Be Uns$755K
May 2018Federal contractNASA · Spectrometers Currently Employed By NASA Include Field Programmable Arrays (fpgas), Analog To Digital Converters (adcs) And A Number Of Other Discrete Components Assembled On A Printed Circuit Board (pcb). An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (asic) Based Spectrometer Offers A Great Reduction In Weight, Volume And Power Consumption Compared To The Fpga/pcb Based Implementation. This Proposal Aims To Develop A Low-power (lp) Poly-phase Spectrometer (pps) Asic. The Proposed Asic Aims To Achi$1.1M
Apr 2018Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · An ASIC with a Low Power Multichannel ADC for Energy and Timing Measurements$155K
Jun 2017Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Proposal Aims To Develop A Radiation Hardened Analog-to-digital Converter (adc) Required For The Kinetic Inductance Detector (kid) Readout Electronics. Kids Are Developed For Photometers And Spectrometers For Astrophysics Focal Planes, And Earth Or Planetary Remote Sensing Instruments. Adcs Employed In Space Based Kids Are Required To Combine Several Features: Radiation Hardness, Low Power Consumption, High Resolution And High-sampling Rate To Facilitate Increase In The Number O$125K
Jun 2017Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Proposed Project Aims To Develop An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (asic) For The Nasa's Microwave Correlation Radiometers Required For Space And Airborne Earth Sensing Applications. The Radiometer Instrumentation Installed On Cubesats And Smallsats Is Required To Have Small Volume, Low Weight And Consume Low Power. Currently Used Correlating Radiometers Rely On Analog Signal Processing, Thus Are Bulky, Power Hungry And Cannot Be Reprogrammed. Analog Filter Parameters T$125K
Jun 2017Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Spectrometers Currently Employed Or Under Development By NASA Are Based On A Printed Circuit Board (pcb) Including Field Programmable Arrays (fpgas) And A Number Of Other Discrete Components. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (asic) Based Spectrometer Offers A Great Reduction In Weight, Volume And Power Consumption Compared To The Fpga/pcb Based Implementation. This Proposal Aims To Develop A Radiation-hardened (rh) Low-power (lp) Poly-phase Spectrometer (pps) Asic. The Pr$125K
Jun 2017Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Proposed Project Aims To Develop A 20GSPS 6-BIT Adc Required For Microwave Radiometers Being Developed For Space And Airborne Earth Sensing Applications And Radio Telescopes. Aiming To Improve Performance And To Reduce The Size Of The Electronics, High Resolution, High-sampling Rate, Power Efficiency And Low Spur Energy Are Required For Adcs Employed For Direct Digitization. The Proposed 20GS/S 6-BIT Time-interleaved Successive Approximation (sar) Adc Is Intended To ACHIEVE>5 E$755K
Apr 2017Federal contractInterior · Igf::ot::igf High-sample Rate Analog To Digital Converters For Reconfigurable Phased Array Applications$1.5M
Feb 2017Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · 12-bit 32 Channel 500MSps Low Latency ADC$155K
Jun 2016Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Proposed Project Aims To Develop A 20GSPS 6-BIT Radiation Hardened Analog To Digital Converter (adc) Required For Microwave Radiometers Being Developed For Space And Air Borne Earth Sensing Applications. Aiming To Improve Performance And To Reduce The Size Of The Electronics, High Resolution, High-sampling Rate, Power Efficiency And Low Spur Energy Are The Requirements For Adcs Employed For Direct Digitization In Microwave Radiometers. The Proposed 20GS/S 6-BIT Interleaved Succ$125K
Mar 2016Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Transceiver for Advanced High-Bandwidth Data Links$155K
Mar 2016Federal contractInterior · Igf::ot::igf High-sample Rate Analog To Digital Converters For Reconfigurable Phased Array Applications$155K
May 2015Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Rad-Hard Sigma-Delta 3-Channel ADC for Fluxgate Magnetometers$900K
May 2015Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Nasa's Path Mission Employs Geostar Spectral Radiometer Processing Data From Antenna Consisting Of Three Arms, Each Holding 128 Microwave Receivers. Each Of The 384 Receivers Amplifies RF Signals, And Down-converts Them To An Intermediate Frequency (if). As A Result, 768 In-phase (i) And Quadrature (q) Signals Are Produced With A Frequency Of 10 To 500MHZ. The If Signals Have To Be Normalized And Digitized With 1GS/S Sampling Rate For Further Cross-correlation. Each Signal From $1.6M
Jun 2014Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Proposed Project Aims To Develop A Multi-channel Analog To Digital Converter (adc) Required For A Fluxgate Magnetometer (epd) Employed On Nasa's Planetary Exploration Missions. The Adc Has To Feature Very High Resolution, Radiation Hardness (tolerance To See And Tid), Low Power Consumption And Be Suitable For Operation Over A Wide Temperature Range. The Proposed 3-CHANNEL Sigma-delta Adc Will Be A Wide-tunable Device Which Will Achieve Resolution From 17 To 23.5 Effective Number$125K
Jun 2014Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Nasa's Path Mission Employs A Synthetic Aperture Radiometer That Produces 768 If (10MHZ - 500MHZ) Signals. Digitizing The Signals Results In 1.536TB/S (1GS/S, 2-BIT) Data Stream. Within The Nasa's SBIR Contracts NNX12CE50P And NNX13CP01C, Pacific Microchip Corp. Has Developed A Low Power 64X64 Cross-correlator Asic Offering The Reduction Of The Amount Of Data To Manageable Levels. This Asic Includes An Array Of 128 Digitizers Operated At 1GS/S And 2-BIT Precision. This Asic Is T$125K
Jan 2013Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf - The Nasa's Path Mission Includes The Geostar Satellite That Carries Aboard A Microwave Sounder Employing An Array Of 375 Microwave Antennas With Corresponding Receivers. Each Receiver Is Tuned To The 180GHZ Frequency, While The Intermediate Frequency (if) Reaches 500MHZ. The If Signal Is Quantized At 1GHZ With 2-BIT Accuracy. The Resulting Data Rate Is 700GB/S. This Data Has To Be Pre-processed Aboard The Satellite Before It Can Be Transmitted To Earth For Further Processing. One $950K
Feb 2012Federal contractNASA · Pacific Microchip Corp. Offers To Design An Asic That Includes A Cross-correlation Unit Together With The Interfaces To Be Connected To The Output Of The Geostar's Receivers, Multiplexer And Output Interface For The Geostar's System-level Integration. The Proposed Novel Asic Required By Nasa's Path Mission Will Have A Greatly Reduced Power Consumption Compared To A Fpga Based Or A Classic Asic Based Implementations, Increased Radiation Hardness And Extended Operating Temperature Range. The Propo$125K
Feb 2012Federal contractNASA · Nasa's Latest Effort In Developing A Common Platform For Space Communication And Navigation Systems Is The Space Telecommunications Radio System (strs) Standard. It Defines Architecture Enabling Interoperability Of Software Defined Radio (sdr) Components. Future Proof, Power Conscious Architectures Of Strs Compliant Re-configurable Sdr Transceivers Are Needed For Implementation Of Envisioned Space Communication Systems. Pacific Microchip Corp. Proposes To Develop A Highly Integrated, Low-power, $125K
Jun 2011Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase 1 Real Time Adaptable Roic For Improved Power And Performance Optimization In Imager Systems$100K
Jun 2011Federal contractNASA · Microwave Interferometers For NASA Missions Such As Path Employ The Geostar Instrument, Consisting Of 600 Receivers. Each Receiver Requires I And Q Adcs (analog-to-digital Converters) For Signal Digitizing At 1GHZ Before Further Processing In The Cross-correlators. Power Consumption As Well As Instrument Volume And Weight Are Critical In Space Born Instruments. During Phase I, Pacific Microchip Corp. Designed The Block Diagrams And Circuits Of A Monolithic Array Consisting Of Sixteen 2-BIT Adcs.$600K
Apr 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$70K
Jan 2010Federal contractNASA · Microwave Interferometers For NASA Missions Such As Path And Sclp Consist Of Up To 900 Receivers. Each Receiver Requires I And Q Adcs (analog-to-digital Converters) For Signal Digitizing AT>200MHZ Before Further Digital Processing In The Cross-correlators. Power Dissipation As Well As Instrument Volume And Weight Are The Most Important Parameters In Space Born Instruments. Pacific Microchip Proposes Designing A Monolithic Array Consisting Of 20X1-BIT Adcs. A Serializer Will Be Integrated To Redu$99K

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Standing among 72 peers

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Semiconductors · Device

Federal grants#27 · top 38%
Granted patents#33 · top 46%

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What it has protected

USPTO · 1 granted of 2

Apr 5, 2022GrantedCircuitry for Event-Driven Data AcquisitionUSPTOUS 11,296,713
PendingSemiconductor Device with Low Power, Multi-Channel Analog-Digital Conversion LogicUSPTOApplication 63063775

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