RIDGETOP GROUP INC
Software platform for grid energy storage facility control and battery life optimization through predictive algorithms and enhanced decision-making systems
- Sector
- Energy
- Headquarters
- Tucson, AZ
- Founded
- 2000
- Total capital
- $22.9M
- Federal grants
- $1.5M
- 5 awards · 2016–2025
- Rank in peer group#5 of 17
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $21.4M
- 56 awards · Defense, NASA
- Rank in Energy#15 of 998
- Granted patents
- 1
- 5 pending · first 2018
- Rank in peer group#7 of 17
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR I Robust Fault Management Tool Suite To Investigate Develop And Support Fm Approaches And Solutions$167K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · SBIR I Robust Fault Management Tool Suite To Investigate Develop And Support Fm Approaches And Solutions$149K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Automated Adaption, Modeling, and Analysis of Costom Li-ion Battery Chemistries$206K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Robust Simulator for Fault Management in Systems-of-systems of Multiple Nodes$125K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Prognostic Health Management (PHM) Chip for System Health Monitoring$50K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Radiation Effects Characterization Tool for SiGe Processes$976K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Etrs&vdats (phase II.5)$1.3M
Show 53 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Phase II Topic A093-207$749K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Phase 2, AF093-208- Improved Test Program Sets For Bad-actor Circuit Card Assemblies In Vdats.$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Progress Report N132-144$80K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Automated Analog Electronics Design Tools For Obsolete Parts$149K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf NASA Space Missions Utilizing Application-specific Integrated Circuits (asics) Under Extreme Conditions Have A Critical Need For High Performance Analog Cell Libraries To Support The Mission Requirements. With The Introduction Of Silicon Germanium (sige) Processes, There Is An Opportunity To Provide Resilient Analog Circuit Designs That Handle Both Temperature And Radiation Hardening Requirements. Our Experience Has Indicated That Meeting Extreme Temperature Requirements Is As Chall$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Fault To Failure Progression (ffp) Signature Modeling And Processing Is A New Method For Applying Condition-based Signal Data To Detect Degradation, To Identify Fault Modes, And To Produce System Estimates For State Of Health (soh) And Remaining Useful Life (rul). The Base Technology Has Been Applied For Prognostic Purposes For Various Government-sponsored Programs, But Ffp Signature Modeling And Processing Has Not Been Applied For The Area Of Fault Management, Nor Does It Include S$125K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Topic AF093-208, Phase II, Contract$713K
- Federal contractDefense · Radiation Effects Characterization Tool For Sige Processes - SBIR Phase I$148K
- Federal contractDefense · Radiation-hardened, Analog-to-digital Converter With High-bit Precision$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Power System Robustness Assessment Tool For All-electric Aircraft$749K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Group Will Develop A 3X Improvement In Sampling Resolution Over Current State-of-the Art Analog-to-digital Converter (adc) Technology To Support Reconfigurable/reprogrammable Communication Systems. The Significance Of This Innovation Lies In The Time-interleaved Pipeline Adc, Based On The Most Advanced Silicon-germanium (sige) Bicmos Technology Available, With Over 2 Bits Higher Effective Number Of Bits (enob = 11.0 Bits) Than The Best Commercially Available Radiation-tolerant 2 Gs/s Ad$124K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR I - Ridgetop Group$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Ph I Research&development$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Developed An Innovative, Model-driven Anomaly Diagnostic And Fault Characterization System For Electromechanical Actuator (ema) Systems To Mitigate Catastrophic Failures. Ridgetop Developed A MIL-STD-1553 Bus Monitor And A MIL-STD-1553 Bus Controller That Simulates The Aircraft Data Bus, Reads The Environmental (i.e., Altitude) And Operational (i.e., Response Of System) Data Of A System And Determines If A Fault Is Manifesting; And If True Determines The Root Cause And Symptoms Of The $600K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop's Innovation Addresses The Need For Improved Capabilities For Detecting Wear In The Drive Gears Inside Helicopter Gearboxes. Rotorcraft Drive Trains Must Withstand Enormous Pressure While Operating Continuously In Extreme Temperature And Vibration Environments. Captive Components, Such As Planetary And Spiral Bevel Gears, See Enormous Strain But Are Not Accessible To Fixed Instrumentation Such As A Piezoelectric Transducer. Thus, It Is Difficult To Directly Monitor Components That Are M$600K
- Federal contractNASA · In Phase 1, Ridgetop Group Designed A High-speed, Yet Low-power Silicon Germanium (sige)-based, Analog-to-digital Converter (adc) To Be A Key Element For Digital Beam Forming (dbf) Systems That Will Be Used In Nasa's Future RADAR Applications. The Adc Will Employ A Novel Combination Of Time Interleaving, High-speed Silicon-germanium Bicmos Technology And Low-power Techniques, Such As The Double-sampling Technique, Providing Exceptional Sampling Speed Of 500 Msps, 1.5 Ghz Analog BANDWIDTH,12 Bits$600K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Group Developed A Top-level Design Of A Rad-hard Application-specific Integrated Circuit (asic) For Spacecraft Power Management That Is Functional Over A Temperature Range Of -180 To +130 Oc. This Asic Is Intended To Work In Conjunction With A Fuel Cell Power System And Battery Backup To Provide Uninterrupted Power To Critical Modules In Space. Ridgetop Has Designed A Novel Integrated Circuit For The Power Management Of Space Systems. This Design Combines Custom Circuit Modules With Sil$600K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Will Develop A Superior Method For Testing And Qualifying Columnar Type Of Grid Arrays Such As Field Programmable Gate Arrays (fpgas) Packaged In Column Grid Array (cga) And Ceramic Column Grid Array (ccga) Packages Using Any Type Of Manufacturing Process. The Proposed Innovation Is An Electrical Test Method That Utilizes Unassigned Cga Or Ccga Package Pins As Dedicated Monitoring Pins, With A Dedicated Solder Joint Built-in-self Test (sj Bist) Program In The Fpga. Sj Bist Operates In R$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Will Demonstrate The Feasibility Of Developing A Radiation-hardened Analog-to-digital Converter (adc) Suitable For The Jupiter Europa Orbiter Mission. This Proposal Responds To Topic S1.09, In-situ Sensors And Sensor Systems For Planetary Science. With This Innovation, The Adc Will Be Hardened To Significantly Higher Levels Of Radiation (5 Mrads) Than Currently Existing Adcs, And Its Performance Will Still Clearly Exceed The Performance Of Adcs Used Previously On NASA Planetary Mission$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Radiation-hardened, Analog-to-digital Converter With High-buit Precision$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Army SBIR Phase II " Monolithic Ultra-high Efficiency Dc-dc Cpnverter"$730K
- Federal contractDefense · Engineering Services$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Purchase Order/ Bridge Gap W31P4Q-10-P-0317, $449,994.00$50K
- Federal contractDefense · AF05-180, Ridgetop Group$149K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase 1, OSD08-M02-1013, Ridgetop$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Status Report$80K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I: Topic AF093-207$100K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I: Topic AF093-208$100K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Topic N101-018$80K
- Federal contractDefense · Innovative Semiconductor Reliability Eval And Assessment Sys$895K
- Federal contractDefense · Training - EMA1000 Demo Units$750
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Group Will Leverage Its Proven Electromechanical Actuator (ema) Prognostics Methodology To Develop An Advanced Model-based Actuator Prognostic Reasoner (mapr). Ridgetop's Concept Is A Self-contained, Embedded Prognostic Reasoner With A Passive Connection To Common Avionic Data Busses. By Monitoring Actuator Health In Real Time And Providing Early Warning Of Incipient Fault Conditions, The Proposed Mapr Would Enable Condition Based Maintenance (cbm) Of Critical Avionic Flight Control Sys$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Under This SBIR Program, Ridgetop Will Introduce The First Low-cost, Low-power, And Lightweight Data Monitoring Solution For Rotorcraft Diagnostics. The Solution Is An Integrated Mems-based Sensors Fabricated By A Mems-first Cmos Process Methodology. The Device Measures Temperature, Shock, And Vibration From Multiple Sensors Integrated Onto A Single Substrate That Also Contains Submicron-scale Cmos Electronics For The Associated Readout And Data Storage Functions. High-sensitivity Mems Structure$100K
- Federal contractNASA · In Response To NASA SBIR Topic X1.04, Ridgetop Group Will Extend And Adapt Ringdown: An Innovative System For The Non-invasive Prognostic Monitoring Of The Health Of Electromechanical Actuators And Related Power Systems. This Comprehensive Solution Provides Both Advanced Hardware Sensors To Monitor The Systems And Prognostic Health Management Algorithms To Interpret The Signals Available In Them. Ringdown Will Significantly Improve The Reliability Of And Confidence In These Critical NASA Systems$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Group Will Design A Rad-hard Application Specific Integrated Circuit (asic) For Spacecraft Power Management That Is Functional Over A Temperature Range Of -230 To +130 Oc. This Asic Is Intended To Work In Conjunction With A Fuel Cell Power System And Battery Back-up To Provide Uninterrupted Power To Critical Modules In Space. Ridgetop Will Combine Radiation Hardening (rh) Techniques With Large Scale Integration (lsi) Methodologies To Build A Power Management System For Spacecraft Applic$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Ridgetop Group Will Design A High-speed, Low-power Silicon Germanium (sige)-based, Analog-to-digital Converter (adc) To Be A Key Element For Digital Beam Forming (dbf) Systems That Are Used In Nasa's Future RADAR Missions. The Adc Will Employ A Novel Combination Of Time Interleaving, High-speed Bipolar Technology And Low-power Techniques, Such As The Double-sampling Technique, Providing Exceptional Sampling Speed Of 500 MSPS,12 Bits Of Resolution And Very Low, 100MW Power Dissipation. Ordinaril$100K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Topic N092-100$80K
- Federal contractDefense · Army SBIR Phase I$70K
- Federal contractDefense · Reliable And Rad-hard Microelectronics$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Reliable And Rad-hard Microelectronics$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Innovative P1451-ENABLED Smart Power Ivhm Sensor NASA Has Expressed A Requirement For Advanced Smart Sensors To Support New Systems For Harsh Environments. Power Systems Are An Integral Component Of Virtually Any Electronic Or Electromechanical System And Thus Are An Excellent Application For Non-intrusive Power System State-of-health And Ivhm-enabled Sensing. Ridgetop Will Provide A Non-intrusive, Eigenvalue-based, Ieee P1451-COMPATIBLE, Power System Health Sensor. The Sensor Connects To The P$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Innovative Fuel Cell Health Monitoring Ic Energy Storage Devices, Including Fuel Cells, Are Needed To Enable Future Robotic And Human Exploration Missions. Historically, The Reliability Of The Fuel Cells Has Been Problematic, Including The Scrubbed Launch Of The Atlantis Space Shuttle In September, 2006, And Endeavor In August, 1995. A 2007 Department Of Energy Report Indicated That, "component Degradation And Failure Mechanisms Are Not Well Understood, Which Makes Mitigation Strategies Necessa$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Research$70K
- Federal contractNASA · Sap Purchase Requisition: 4200260662; This Acquisition Is For A Circuit Board That Uses Advanced Technology And Licenses To Test (sense) Bad Solder Joints On Fpga Chips In Ball Grid Array (bga) Packages. This Is A Follow-on To SBIR Phase II Advanced Fault And Failure Anomaly Detection Technologies To Support Enhanced Phm Capabilities N68335-06-C-0346 Awarded By Naval Air Warfare Center (navair). This Effort Is Based On Prior SBIR Phase II Work Performed By Ridgetop Group. The Proposed Phase III $25K
- Federal contractDefense · Phase II Base Effort$1.2M
- Federal contractNASA · Prognostics-enabled Power Supply For Adapt Testbed$600K
- Federal contractNASA · Nra NNH07ZEA001N-IVHM1 For Topic Number: IVHM-1.5, Proposal 07-IVHM1-07-0019 With Ridgetop Group Inc. Entitled, Develop And Validate Fault Detection And Diagnostic Methods For Switch Mode Power Supplies Used In Avionic Control Systems Employing Electro-mechanical Actuators. The Objective Of This Nra Topic Is To Develop And Validate Of Diagnostic And Prognostic Algorithms For Electromechanical Systems; To Estimate State Of Health And Time To Failure During Nominal And Degraded Operations Using $225K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development SBIR Phase II Topic N06-006$1.5M
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I$100K
- Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Phase II Topic N06-007$1M
- Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Phase II Topic N05-093$1.4M
- Federal contractDefense · 200610!473696!1700!N68335!NAVAL Air Engineering Station !N6833506C0346 !a!n! !y! ! !20060727!20080731!157955597!157955597!157955597!N!RIDGETOP Group Inc !6595 N Oracle Rd !tucson !AZ!85704!77000!019!04!TUCSON !pima !arizona !+000000500000!N!N!000001928481!AC62!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-applied Resea !A7 !electronics And Communication Equip !000 !not Discernable !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !999$1.6M
- Federal contractDefense · 200505!118928!1700!N68335!NAVAL Air Engineering Station !N6833505C0126 !a!n! !y! ! !20050214!20070215!157955597!157955597!157955597!N!RIDGETOP Group, Inc !6595 N Oracle Rd, Suite 15!TUCSON !AZ!85704!77000!019!04!TUCSON !pima !arizona !+000000500000!N!N!000000000000!AC62!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-applied Resea !A7 !electronics And Communication Equip !000 !* !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !202$1.5M
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- Federal grants#5 · top 29%
- Granted patents#7 · top 41%
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USPTO · 1 granted of 6- GrantedProgrammable Test Structure For Characterization Of Integrated Circuit Fabrication ProcessesUSPTOUS 10,082,535
- PendingProgrammable Test Structure, System And Method For Characterization Of Integrated Circuit Fabrication ProcessesUSPTOApplication 62186054
- PendingMethod And Circuit For Low-power Detection Of Solder-joint Network Failures In Digital Electronic PackagesUSPTOApplication PCTUS2007024350
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- Programmable Test Structure For Characterization Of Integrated Circuit Fabrication ProcessesSep 25, 2018 · US 10,082,535Granted
- Programmable Test Structure, System And Method For Characterization Of Integrated Circuit Fabrication ProcessesApplication 62186054Pending
- Method And Circuit For Low-power Detection Of Solder-joint Network Failures In Digital Electronic PackagesApplication PCTUS2007024350Pending
- Prognostic Health Monitoring In Switch-mode Power Supplies With Voltage RegulationApplication PCTUS2007073706Pending
- Method And Resistive Bridge Circuit For The Detection Of Solder-joint Failures In A Digital Electronic PackageApplication PCTUS2006006142Pending
- Method And Circuit For The Detection Of Solder-joint Failures In A Digital Electronic PackageApplication PCTUS2006004335Pending
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Regulatory activity · Energy
- Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Redesignation and Maintenance Plan for the Partial St. Clair 2010 1-Hour Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) NAAQS Nonattainment AreaEnvironmental Protection Agency
- Air Plan Approval; Delaware; 2006 24-Hour Fine Particulate Matter Limited Maintenance Plan for the Philadelphia Nonattainment AreaEnvironmental Protection Agency
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- List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: NAC International, Inc., MAGNASTOR® Storage System, Certificate of Compliance No. 1031, Amendment Nos. 16 and 17 and Revisions to Amendment Nos. 0 Through 16Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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